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>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 17, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Bishops lobby Congress members on social justice issues
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: Continuing diocese has right to sue
breakaway group, judge rules
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - WEST VIRGINIA: Bishop plans to jump off bridge --
to raise money
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Climate Justice Fund launches to support
environmental welfare, poor communities
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Blasphemy law petition presented to Pakistan
High Commission
* DAYBOOK - September 18: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Hildegard of Bingen - Selections from Her Writings

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>TOP STORIES

Bishops lobby Congress members on social justice issues

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service - Washington, D.C.] Episcopal Bishops
representing 200,000 Episcopalians from Maine to California made the
case for health care and immigration reform, and stricter
environmental protection on Capitol Hill Sept. 16.

Together as "Bishops Working for a Just World" and organized by the
Episcopal Public Policy Network's capitol-based Office of Government
Relations, the seven bishops, guided by General Convention
resolutions, made their annual trip to Washington, D.C., Sept. 14-16
to lobby Congress, meeting with more than 30 elected officials and/or
their legislative staffs, on behalf of the Episcopal Church.
	
"Our involvement says that it's appropriate for Christians to be
involved in conversation about social issues and bring an informed,
theological perspective to the discussion," said Connecticut Bishop
Jim Curry, the group's convener. "We [bishops] model that, and I could
make the case that that is more important than taking a stand [on a
specific issue]."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_114782_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

FORT WORTH: Continuing diocese has right to sue breakaway group, judge  rules
'Recovery of identity and resources' to continue at next hearing October  15

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] A Texas judge's September 16 ruling
established that attorneys for The Episcopal Church and the continuing
Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth have a right to sue to determine who
and what constitutes the legitimate Fort Worth diocese and for an
accounting of church property and assets held by a breakaway group.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114784_ENG_HTM.htm

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WEST VIRGINIA: Bishop plans to jump off bridge -- to raise money

[Diocese of West Virginia] Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia Bishop
W. Michie Klusmeyer will strap on a harness October 17 and slide 700
feet down a zip line to raise money for the Church Periodical Club
(CPC).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114762_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Climate Justice Fund launches to support environmental
welfare, poor communities

[Episcopal News Service] The Church of England's Climate Justice Fund
is being launched this week with the message: "count the cost of your
carbon footprint for the sake of the developing world," according to a
September 17 news release.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114767_ENG_HTM.htm

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ENGLAND: Blasphemy law petition presented to Pakistan High Commission

[Episcopal News Service] An online petition calling for the repeal of
Pakistan's blasphemy legislation was presented to the Pakistan High
Commissioner in London on September 8.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_114769_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On September 18, 2009, the church remembers Edward Bouverie Pusey,
priest (1800-1882).

* 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 18, 324, Constantine the Great
decisively defeated Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis,
establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire. On
September 18, 1643, Gilbert Burnet, Scottish theologian and historian,
and bishop of Salisbury, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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>CATALYST

"Hildegard of Bingen - Selections from Her Writings" from
HarperCollins Publishers, by Hildegard of Bingen, foreword by Homer
Hickam, 145 pages, paperback, c. 2005, $11.95

[HarperCollins Publishers] Excerpts from the writings of the
twelfth-century German nun and mystic lends insight into the visions
she recorded in her major work, Scivias, convey her beliefs about a
feminine and creative incarnation of the divine, and offer counsel on
how to know the ways of God.

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