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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>May 29, 2009

Episcopal Life Online is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - EASTERN OREGON: Rivera appointed provisional bishop
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: Bishop asks clergy to verify decision to
leave
* WORLD REPORT - GREAT BRITAIN: Williams, Sentamu join other leaders
to urge voters not to turn to extreme right
* WORLD REPORT - SWEDEN: Lesbian elected Lutheran bishop of Stockholm
* MISSION ? Foundation honors Phoebe Griswold, two congregations
* PEOPLE - The Rev. Victoria Duncan named program officer for Office
of Transition Ministry
* PEOPLE - ?Padre Alberto's? story resonates worldwide
* PEOPLE - World Council of Churches considers six candidates for
general secretary
* ARTS - Griswold's book weaves teaching and commentary
* DAYBOOK - June 1, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Mailbox Ministry - Greeting Cards that Share the Faith

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

EASTERN OREGON: Rivera appointed provisional bishop

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Edna Bavi "Nedi" Rivera was elected
provisional bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Oregon
(http://www.episdioeo.org/ ) by unanimous vote during a special
convention May 23. Tweny-seven clergy and 67 lay delegates
representing 21 of the 22 parishes in eastern Oregon were certified to
vote.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_108353_ENG_HTM.htm

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FORT WORTH: Bishop asks clergy to verify decision to leave

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth provisional
Bishop Edwin F. Gulick Jr. has asked 72 members of the diocesan clergy
to meet with him to verify their decision to leave the Episcopal
Church with former bishop Jack Iker.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_108349_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

GREAT BRITAIN: Williams, Sentamu join other leaders to urge voters not
to turn to extreme right

[Ecumenical News International] Church of England leaders and others
are pleading with the public not to vote for the extreme right-wing
British National Party in elections for the European Parliament on
June 4.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_108362_ENG_HTM.htm

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SWEDEN: Lesbian elected Lutheran bishop of Stockholm

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] A female Lutheran pastor who is in a
registered partnership with another woman was elected May 26 to be the
next bishop of the Diocese of Stockholm in the Church of Sweden.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_108348_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MISSION

Foundation honors Phoebe Griswold, two congregations

>By Solange De Santis

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church Foundation
(http://www.episcopalfoundation.org), celebrating its 60th anniversary
on May 28 at a benefit dinner in New York, recognized two dynamic
congregations and honored a leader who said she?s spurred into action
when she asks, "What is missing?"

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_108356_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

The Rev. Victoria Duncan named program officer for Office of Transition
Ministry

>By ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Victoria Duncan has been named
Program Officer for CDO (Church Deployment Office): Office for
Transition Ministry in the Mission Leadership Center of The Episcopal
Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_108355_ENG_HTM.htm

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?Padre Alberto's? story resonates worldwide

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Although it is not unusual for Episcopal and
Roman Catholic priests to leave one denomination and join the other,
news of former Roman Catholic priest Alberto Cutié's
(http://www.padrealberto.net/) move to the Episcopal Church has
sparked worldwide public attention.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_108358_ENG_HTM.htm

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World Council of Churches considers six candidates for general secretary

[Ecumenical News International] A committee seeking a new general
secretary for the World Council of Churches has drawn up a list of six
names.

Although it did not release the list, sources linked to the Ecumenical
Centre, where the WCC has its Geneva headquarters, identified six
likely candidates. The council has 349 member churches -- principally
Anglican, Orthodox and Protestant -- representing 560 million
Christians.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_108346_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

Griswold's book weaves teaching and commentary

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal Life] Former Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold, whose
strong devotional practices shaped his ministry as priest and bishop,
launched his most recent book, Praying Our Days, at an event sponsored
by the Philadelphia Theological Institute in March.

In his book, Griswold, one-time chair of the church's Standing
Liturgical Commission and former co-chair of the Anglican-Roman
Catholic International Commission, said that for years he valued a
small blue book of collected prayers that he received upon
confirmation at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. "More out
of curiosity than overt devotion, I began to use the book," he wrote.
"It became a companion and a great help in leading me more deeply into
practice of prayer and participation in the sacramental life of the
church."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_108364_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On June 1, 2009, the church calendar remembers the Visitation of the
Blessed Virgin.

* 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 June 1, 1985, the Rt. Rev. A. Donald Davies,
bishop of the Diocese of Dallas from 1970-1982 and the first bishop of
the Diocese of Fort Worth, became bishop for the Convocation of
American Churches in Europe.

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>CATALYST

"Mailbox Ministry - Greeting Cards that Share the Faith" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Sue Banker, 115 pages, hardcover, c. 2009, $28

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Mailbox Ministry provides all the tools for
religious card-making: projects, patterns, step-by-step instructions,
and inspirational messages (including biblical verses, poems, and
inspirational phrases) for all occasions and audiences, adults as well
as children. It includes stories and tips for starting up and
maintaining a parish card ministry.

The book combines inspirational stories with hands-on strategies,
ideas, and how-to's. There are a variety of card designs from simple
to more elaborate, for crafters of all abilities and ages.

More than 50 separate greeting cards are fully illustrated in color
and photographs throughout the book. Also included are complete
materials lists, card-making tips, mailing guidelines, and a glossary.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit
your local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org

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