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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>September 22, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Diverse interfaith leaders call for comprehensive Middle
East peace
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - MARYLAND: Cathedral is site for Peace Witness
* OPINION - Church needs gifts of transgender Episcopalians
* DAYBOOK - September 23: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Breathe. See. Nourish. Energize. A Pathway to Healing

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>TOP STORIES

Diverse interfaith leaders call for comprehensive Middle East peace

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] As more than 120 heads of state and
government prepare for seven days of debate at the United Nations
General Assembly in New York, a diverse group of interfaith leaders
are raising their voices in support of "a negotiated, sustainable
resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict -- a fundamental
American interest" that they say crosses racial, ethnic and religious
lines.

The statement was drafted by Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) --
a coalition of 22 Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant national church
bodies, including the Episcopal Church -- and signed by 30 religious
leaders, including Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.

The leaders express their support for President Barack Obama's
determination "to provide sustained, hands-on diplomatic leadership to
bring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an end through the creation
of two viable, secure and independent states living side by side in
peace and security."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_114890_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

>MARYLAND: Cathedral is site for Peace Witness

>By Sharon Tillman

On the day designated by the United Nations as the International Day
of Peace, the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore, hosted a Peace
Witness, a reading of the names of the American service men and women
killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002.

Full story here: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114892_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Church needs gifts of transgender Episcopalians

>By Vicki Gray

[Episcopal News Service] We may not yet be apparent, but there are
transgender Episcopalians.

I am one and, with several transgender sisters and brothers, incarnated an
otherwise abstract "issue" at July's General Convention in Anaheim,
California, as a member of the TransEpiscopal delegation that sought
recognition of our existence and action on the real issues -- social,
political, economic, and ecclesial -- that have adversely impacted our
lives.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_114888_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On September 23, 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 September 23, 1571, John Jewel, bishop of
Salisbury, died at the episcopal manor house of Monkton Farleigh.

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>CATALYST

"Breathe. See. Nourish. Energize. A Pathway to Healing" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Frances Murchison, 139 pages, paperback, c. 2008,
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The book offers the four key principles -- breathe, see, nourish and
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Spiritual exercises, along with scripture passages, provide handy
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