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>Episcopal Life Daily
>May 21, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Zimbabwe diocese breaks chains of dictatorship
* PEOPLE - Bill Cosby emphasizes self value in commencement address
* PEOPLE - General Theological Seminary awards three honorary degrees
* PEOPLE - Nashotah House confers three honorary degrees
* DAYBOOK - May 22, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Saints - A Year in Faith and Art

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>TOP STORIES

Zimbabwe diocese breaks chains of dictatorship

Bakares' ministry prepares the way for Harare's resurrection

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Berkeley, California] For Anglicans in the
Diocese of Harare Zimbabwe, Holy Week and Eastertide have been a time
of new beginnings, and interim Bishop Sebastian Bakare has a bag of
chains in his office as proof.

The chains, now broken, once locked the doors to the Harare cathedral
preventing Anglicans from worshipping in their church. Bakare led
worship in the cathedral on Easter Sunday for the first time since
coming to the diocese in December 2007. It was, he told Episcopal News
Service, "our resurrection Sunday."

That feeling of new life continues to deepen in the embattled diocese
that is recovering from the effects of Bishop Nolbert Kunonga's
episcopacy and finding ways to minister in a country being ruined by a
dictatorial president.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107913_ENG_HTM.htm

More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife

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>PEOPLE

Bill Cosby emphasizes self value in commencement address

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Comedian and actor Bill Cosby underscored the
importance of self value in a commencement speech delivered May 10 at
St. Paul's College, an Episcopal college, in Lawrenceville, Virginia.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_107921_ENG_HTM.htm

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General Theological Seminary awards three honorary degrees

[GTS] The General Theological Seminary in New York City awarded three
honorary doctorate degrees May 20 during its 187th commencement
ceremony.

The honorary degree recipients were Dr. Diana Butler Bass, noted
author and speaker; Archbishop Thabo Cecil Makgoba of the Anglican
Church of Southern Africa; and Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori. Francisco Lobelle received the seminary's
Clement Clarke Moore Medal.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_107914_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Nashotah House confers three honorary degrees

[Nashotah House] Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin
awarded three Doctor of Divinity degrees, honoris causa, during its
May 14 commencement ceremony.

The degree recipients were Bishop Suffragan Paul E. Lambert of the
Episcopal Diocese of Dallas; the Rev. Jonathan Baker, principal of
Pusey House at Oxford University; and the Rev. J. I. Packer, Anglican
theologian, author and executive editor of Christianity Today.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_107905_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 22, 2009...

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer:

http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm

* Today in History: On May 22, 1851, Edwyn Hoskyns, Anglican bishop
and social reformer, was born at Aston-Tirrold, Berkshire. As bishop
of Southwell, England, from 1905 until his death in 1925, he devoted
himself to improving labor conditions for the working class.

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>CATALYST

"Saints - A Year in Faith and Art" from Harry N. Abrams, Inc., by Rosa
Giorgi, 780 pages, hardcover, c. 2009, $19.95

[Harry N. Abrams, Inc.] This richly illustrated, unique volume
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Rosa Giorgi has chosen up to three saints for each day of the year and
has composed a brief accompanying description of each -- including
etymology of names, historical background, and occupations, cities,
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Encompassing angels and abbots, mystics and martyrs, priests and
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