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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Diocese may consider reuniting with  neighbor
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: Ecclesiastical trial court denies
bishop's request for dismissal of charges or new trial
* PEOPLE - Bonnie Anderson to receive two honorary degrees
* ARTS - Episcopal school's chapel, alum win architecture award
* DAYBOOK - September 28: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Governance and Ministry - Rethinking Board Leadership

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PITTSBURGH: Diocese may consider reuniting with neighbor

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] If its diocesan convention agrees in October,
the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will begin studying the
possibility of reuniting with its neighbor the Diocese of Northwestern
Pennsylvania.

Resolution 4, due to be considered during Pittsburgh's Oct. 16-17
diocesan convention, would call for a committee to study "the
potential long-term impact of such reunion on the financial and
administrative resources of the two dioceses." The resolution adds
that Northwestern Pennsylvania Bishop Sean Rowe and the diocesan
standing committee would be invited to participate in such a study.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_115018_ENG_HTM.htm

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PENNSYLVANIA: Ecclesiastical trial court denies bishop's request for
dismissal of charges or new trial

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] An ecclesiastical trial court has refused to
dismiss charges against Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop
Charles Bennison or grant him a new trial on those charges.

In a September 24 decision released to the public the next day, the
church's Court for the Trial of a Bishop said that "the newly
discovered evidence is not material to the evidence on which the court
concluded that [Bennison] failed to respond appropriately once he knew
that his brother had sexually abused a minor."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_115020_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Bonnie Anderson to receive two honorary degrees

>By ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] Bonnie Anderson, president of the Episcopal
Church's House of Deputies, will receive two honorary degrees in
October.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_115019_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

Episcopal school's chapel, alum win architecture award

[TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas] The design for All Saints Chapel
at TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas in San Antonio has won an
architectural award for its designers.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_114985_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On September 28, 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 28, 1988, Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen
in New York City served its millionth meal.

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>CATALYST

"Governance and Ministry - Rethinking Board Leadership" from The Alban
Institute, by Dan Hotchkiss, foreword by James B. Lemler, 249 pages,
paperback, c. 2009, $17

[The Alban Institute] In Governance and Ministry, Alban Institute
senior consultant Dan Hotchkiss offers congregational leaders a
roadmap and tools for changing the way boards and clergy work together
to lead congregations. Hotchkiss demonstrates that the right
governance model is the one that best enables a congregation to
fulfill its mission -- to achieve both the outward results and the
inward quality of life to which it is called.

Resources on governance for the nonprofit sector have burgeoned over
the past decade, and this book translates some of what is most helpful
from that world for clergy and lay leaders. It also recognizes that in
some ways congregations are unique and need governance structures and
processes different from those that work in other organizations.
Leaders must continually balance the conserving function of an
institution with the expectation of disruptive, change-inducting
creativity that comes when individuals peek past the temple veil and
catch fresh visions of the Holy.

Governance in congregations is not the science of achieving optimal
results through organizational re-engineering. Governance is an
expressive art, like preaching. The forms of our congregations must
reflect the values and perceptions of the sacred at their heart.
Congregations need skills and methods for negotiating "our way" of
governance and for passing the torch effectively to new leaders.

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