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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 4, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Bulletin insert series explores seminarian debt crisis
* WORLD REPORT - CENTRAL AFRICA: Former Zimbabwe bishop must return
property, church leaders say
* WORLD REPORT - INDIA: Christians mourn state leader who fought for Dalits
* ARTS - FILM: Imaginative, insightful sci-fi in 'District 9'
* DAYBOOK - September 7: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Martyrs, Saints and Sinners

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>TOP STORIES

Bulletin insert series explores seminarian debt crisis

[Episcopal News Service] The problem of seminarian debt is growing,
according to the Society for Increase of the Ministry, a 150-year-old
organization that assists those preparing for leadership roles in the
Episcopal Church. Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for September
13, 20 and 27 mark the beginning of the school year by exploring the
facts of academic debt and possible solutions.

Inserts for September 13 are titled "Debt." Those for September 20 are
titled "Answering God's call: Here I am." The series concludes with
the September 27 insert, "How to solve the seminarian debt crisis."

Bulletin inserts may be downloaded here:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CENTRAL AFRICA: Former Zimbabwe bishop must return property, church leaders
say

[Anglican Communion News Service] In a letter addressed to the law
courts of Zimbabwe, leaders of the Anglican Church in the Province of
Central Africa (CPCA) have expressed "increasing concern" about the
courts' involvement in numerous cases involving former bishop Nolbert
Kunonga and CPCA property.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114437_ENG_HTM.htm

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INDIA: Christians mourn state leader who fought for Dalits

>By Anto Akkara

[Ecumenical News International, Bangalore, India] Christians in India
have joined in national mourning following the death of Y. S.
Rajasekhara Reddy, chief minister of southern Andhra Pradesh state and
a member of the Church of South India (CSI).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114425_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

FILM: Imaginative, insightful sci-fi in 'District 9'

>By Donovan Jacobs

[Episcopal News Service] Once derided as inferior intellectually and
artistically, science fiction and horror films have grown into genres
where social, political and moral issues can be explored in profound
yet compelling terms. Movies as diverse as Night of the Living Dead
and Wall-E provide powerful insights into what we humans are and the
mysterious, even divine, nature of the universe.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_114316_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On September 7, 2009, the church remembers Labor Day.

* 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 September 7, 1807, Robert Morrison, sent by the
London Missionary Society, arrived in Canton and Macao, China, as the
first Protestant missionary in China. On September 7, 1833, Hannah
More, Anglican philanthropist and devotional writer, died in Clifton,
England and is buried at All Saints' Church, Wrington.

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>CATALYST

"Martyrs, Saints and Sinners" from Areopagite Press, by Dennis B. A.
Berk, 216 pages, paperback, c. 2009, $11.95

[Areopagite Press] This collection of six plays provides an
unconventional look at a variety of saintly and sinful protagonists
spanning the range of time from the 3rd through the 21st centuries.
Suitable for personal reading or for public performances, these plays
offer refreshingly new perspectives on their historical characters who
are portrayed with an undiluted realism.

The author boldly strips away the sanctimonious gloss so often applied
to the saints. In his strikingly vivid representations both the sacred
and the sordid aspects of life are illustrated. His portrayals are not
compromised by the polite platitudes that so often have hidden these
individuals behind the veil of piety.

Through these plays you will journey beyond the golden halos and the
serene smiles of the stained glass images. Enjoy encountering an
amazing assortment of characters whose faults and foibles are conveyed
with a startling honesty that is simultaneously shocking and
inspirational.

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