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>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 12, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Anglicans mark first anniversary of
government apology for residential schools abuse
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Church leaders plead for citizens on China's death
row
* OPINION - Joining God's mission: Achieving the MDGs: Why should we care?
* ARTS - Quilter moves on: A rich legacy of vestments and banners
remains at rural church
* DAYBOOK - June 15: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Reason for God - Belief in the Age of Skepticism

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Anglicans mark first anniversary of government apology for
residential schools abuse

>By Brian Sarjeant

[Anglican Journal] The first anniversary of Prime Minister Stephen
Harper's apology on behalf of the nation to native people who suffered
abuse as children in church-run Indian residential schools was marked
at events across the country on June 11.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_109948_ENG_HTM.htm

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KENYA: Church leaders plead for citizens on China's death row

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] Kenyan church leaders are
urging their government to move swiftly to save the lives of citizens
of the east African country who are on death row in China.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_109951_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Joining God's mission

>Achieving the MDGs: Why should we care?

>By Ian T. Douglas

[Episcopal Life] Too often we Christians working to help achieve the
Millennium Development Goals neglect to name our motivation: Our faith
in Jesus Christ and in God's saving work in the world, God's mission.
We need to declare that it is because of our Christian faith that we
care about the MDGs.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_109878_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

>Quilter moves on

A rich legacy of vestments and banners remains at rural church

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal Life] Sandi Case has said farewell to the small, rural
North Carolina church where she worshiped for the past decade, but
she's left a rich legacy.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_109880_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On June 15, 2009, the church calendar remembers Evelyn Underhill
(1875-1941).

* 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 15, 1215, King John signed the Magna
Carta, which begins, "The Church of England shall be free."

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>CATALYST

"The Reason for God - Belief in the Age of Skepticism" from Penguin
Group, by Timothy Keller, 293 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $24.99

[Penguin Group] Although a vocal minority continues to attack the
Christian faith, for most Americans, faith is a large part of their
lives: 86 percent of Americans refer to themselves as religious, and
75 percent of all Americans consider themselves Christians. So how
should they respond to these passionate, learned, and persuasive books
that promote science and secularism over religion and faith? For
years, Tim Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced
"doubts" skeptics bring to his Manhattan church. And in The Reason for
God, he single-handedly dismantles each of them. Written with
atheists, agnostics, and skeptics in mind, Keller also provides an
intelligent platform on which true believers can stand their ground
when bombarded by the backlash. The Reason for God challenges such
ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of
Christianity.

Why is there suffering in the world? How could a loving God send
people to Hell? Why isn't Christianity more inclusive? Shouldn't the
Christian God be a god of love? How can one religion be "right" and
the rest "wrong"? Why have so many wars been fought in the name of
God? These are just a few of the questions even ardent believers
wrestle with today. In this book, Tim Keller uses literature,
philosophy, real-life conversations and reasoning, and even pop
culture to explain how faith in a Christian God is a soundly rational
belief, held by thoughtful people of intellectual integrity with a
deep compassion for those who truly want to know the truth.

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