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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal Life Daily
>May 27, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SAN JOAQUIN: Final depositions for 61 disaffiliated
clergy
* MISSION - Anglican-Lutheran commission continues ecumenical dialogue
* PEOPLE - Two New York women named Trinity Transformational Fellows
* OPINION - Among military chaplains, fundamentalism is taking hold
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - May 31 - Day of Pentecost - Year B
* DAYBOOK - May 28, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Blue Like Jazz

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

Bishop: ?a sad day? for Central California diocese

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Jerry Lamb of San Joaquin has sent
final deposition notices to 61 priests and deacons who disaffiliated
from the Central California Valley diocese and The Episcopal Church.

Lamb described the actions as "heartbreaking," on May 26, after
finishing the last of the letters, which were to be mailed out to
clergy who, along with former Bishop John-David Schofield, realigned
themselves with the Argentina-based Anglican Province of the Southern
Cone.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_108029_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MISSION

Anglican-Lutheran commission continues ecumenical dialogue

[Anglican Communion News Service] The third Anglican - Lutheran
International Commission (ALIC) has issued a communiqué outlining the
work it did during its fourth meeting, held in Lilleskog, Sweden, May
20-27.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_108023_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

Two New York women named Trinity Transformational Fellows

[Trinity Wall Street] Wendy Reynoso and the Rev. Yamily Bass-Choate
were recently honored for their outstanding contributions to their
communities by being named Trinity Wall Street's (2009
Transformational Fellows.

The two women were recognized during a May 21 Ascension Day service at
historic Trinity Church. Reynoso is the executive director of Grace
Opportunities Project. Bass-Choate is priest-in-charge of Iglesia de
San Andres in Yonkers, New York.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_108031_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Among military chaplains, fundamentalism is taking hold

>By David Somerville

[Episcopal News Service] As an Episcopal priest who is also a retired
member of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps, I am prompted to write after
reading a very disturbing article in the May edition of Harper's
magazine: "Jesus Killed Mohammed: The Crusade for a Christian
Military."
In the story, author Jeff Sharlet writes that a voluntary association
called the Officer's Christian Fellowship (OCF) is aggressive and
coordinated in furthering its evangelical agenda. The story states
that several high ranking officers have inappropriately used Pentagon
facilities and other national symbols for their Christian propaganda
in the media and that they have been challenged legally and
successfully.

It says that a popular OCF Bible study, Mission Accomplished, distorts
the constitutional principle of the "wall" between the state and
religion in order to create the idea that the wall surrounds the state
with its official true religion protected on the inside. The wall is
also intended to protect America from all other outsiders who do not
profess the fundamentalist creed.

Full story:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_108027_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_80421_ENG_HTM.htm

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available
at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

>May 31 - Day of Pentecost - Year B

(RCL) Acts 2:1-21 or Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 104: 25-35,37; Romans
8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15

>By the Rev. Suzanne E. Watson

[Sermons That Work] "And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like
the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they
were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a
tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit game them
ability."

Today we celebrate the feast of Pentecost. While today's Christians
associate Pentecost with the coming of the Holy Spirit, it would be
incorrect to think that the Spirit was not in existence prior to the
Pentecost celebration described in today's reading from Acts. In fact,
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church explains that in Old
Testament times, the Spirit was understood as the "active but
impersonal power of God."

However, in the New Testament, the Spirit undergoes two developments.
First, it is understood that the Holy Spirit is bestowed upon all
Christians at their baptism. This morning's reading from Acts is a
prime example of this, as the Holy Spirit fills all those gathered in
the form of violent wind and fire.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_107741_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 28, 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 28, 1533, English reformer Thomas Cranmer,
Archbishop of Canterbury, declared King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne
Boleyn valid, having earlier approved the king's divorce of Catherine
of Aragon.

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>CATALYST

"Blue Like Jazz" from Thomas Nelson, by Donald Miller, 243 pages,
paperback, c. 2003, $14.99

[Thomas Nelson] I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't
resolve ... I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But
that was before any of this happened.

In Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant
God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian
life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry
that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again,
far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller
describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant,
infinitely loving God.

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