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>Episcopal Life Daily
>October 20, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Pope announces special provisions to accept former
Anglicans in Roman Catholic Church
* TOP STORY - 'Around One Table' report, Online Giving program share
space in Oct. 25 bulletin inserts
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Diocesan conventions focus on stewardship,  leadership
* WORLD REPORT - NIGERIA: Anglican Primate-elect rejects conservative  tag
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTH AFRICA: President Zuma praises Tutu as Makgoba
urges 'delivery' of basic services
* MISSION - On Capitol Hill, religious leaders take stand for working  families
* PEOPLE - John Harris Burt, eighth bishop of Ohio, voice for social
justice, dies at 91
* PEOPLE - The Rev. Robert Ray Parks, establisher of Trinity Grants,  dies at 91
* EDUCATION - General Theological Seminary receives $5 million gift
for new library
* OPINION - Making a difference in New Orleans
* ARTS - New Coen film explores tragedy of missed opportunities
* DAYBOOK - October 21: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - A Paradise Built in Hell - The Extraordinary Communities
that Arise in Disaster

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>TOP STORIES

Pope announces special provisions to accept former Anglicans in Roman
Catholic Church

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has announced
his plans to allow provisions that would accept groups of former
Anglicans who wish to convert to the Roman Catholic Church, according
to an Oct. 20 press release from The Vatican.

The press release announced the preparation of an Apostolic
Constitution that would allow such converts to enter full communion
with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of Anglican
spirituality and liturgy. Under the terms of the Apostolic
Constitution, the release said, "pastoral oversight and guidance will
be provided for groups of former Anglicans through a Personal
Ordinariate, whose Ordinary will usually be appointed from among
former Anglican clergy."

In a statement from the Episcopal Church, Bishop Christopher Epting,
ecumenical and interfaith officer, said that the announcement
"reflects what the Roman Catholic Church, through its acceptance of
Anglican rite parishes, has been doing for some years more informally
... We are in dialogue with the archbishop's office and will, in the
coming days, continue to explore the full implications of this in our
ecumenical relations."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_115683_ENG_HTM.htm

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'Around One Table' report, Online Giving program share space in Oct.
25 bulletin inserts

[Episcopal News Service] A new report on the common identity and
mission of Episcopalians and a new program for online donations to the
church are the two topics sharing space in Episcopal Life Weekly's
bulletin inserts for Oct. 25.

The report, titled 'Around One Table,' outlines work done by a team of
independent researchers who used survey responses from a broad swathe
of Episcopal clergy and laypeople to identify particular beliefs and
attitudes that are held in common by most church members.

The online giving program is a new feature of Episcopal Church
websites that allows members to donate to specific programs and funds.

Bulletin inserts are available at

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

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

Diocesan conventions focus on stewardship, leadership

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Future episcopal leadership was the focus of
several of the 11 dioceses of the Episcopal Church
(http://www.episcopalchurch.org) that held annual convention meetings
over the October 16-17 weekend.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_115722_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

NIGERIA: Anglican Primate-elect rejects conservative tag

>By Lekan Otufodunrin

[Ecumenical News International, Lagos] The newly-elected leader of the
(Anglican) Church of Nigeria, the Rev. Nicholas Okoh, has rebutted his
being labeled "conservative" on matters such as homosexuality,
same-sex marriage, women's ordination and other issues.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_115709_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTH AFRICA: President Zuma praises Tutu as Makgoba urges 'delivery'
of basic services

>By Munyaradzi Makoni

[Ecumenical News International, Cape Town] South African President
Jacob Zuma at the weekend met with several church leaders and showed
that he wishes to patch up matters with his one-time fierce critic
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_115687_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

On Capitol Hill, religious leaders take stand for working families

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Clergy and faith leaders from throughout the
United States gathered on Capitol Hill Oct. 20 to pray and proclaim
the moral case for health-care reform legislation that would make
coverage affordable to working-class and low-income families.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_115717_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

John Harris Burt, eighth bishop of Ohio, voice for social justice, dies  at 91

[Episcopal News Service] Retired Bishop of Ohio John H. Burt died
October 20 at his home on the southern shore of Lake Superior in the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He was 91.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_115715_ENG_HTM.htm

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The Rev. Robert Ray Parks, establisher of Trinity Grants, dies at 91

[Trinity Church Wall Street, New York] The Rev. Robert Ray Parks, 15th
rector of Trinity Church on Wall Street, died on Oct. 18 in New York
City. He was 91.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_115720_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>EDUCATION

General Theological Seminary receives $5 million gift for new library

[General Theological Seminary, New York City] General Theological
Seminary (GTS) has received two gifts totaling $5 million in honor of
the late Bishop of Arkansas Christoph Keller, Jr. to complete
construction of the seminary's new library building, according to a
news release from the school.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_115695_ENG_HTM.htm

More Education: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80263_93222_ENG_HTM.htm

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>OPINION

>Making a difference in New Orleans

>By Nell Bolton

[ECSLA] From the moment the White House announced that President
Barack Obama would make his first presidential visit to New Orleans in
mid-October, the Episcopal Community Services of Louisiana (ECSLA)
team had been looking for ways to influence his itinerary and shape
his understanding of the successes, opportunities, and challenges on
the ground in post-Katrina Louisiana.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_115699_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

>A 'Serious' look at life

New Coen film explores tragedy of missed opportunities

>By Donovan Jacobs

[Episcopal News Service] Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have produced
an exceptional (if not always consistent) body of work marked by their
knack for not giving audiences what they expect. The Coens not only
make movies in an offbeat range of genres but also focus on characters
and stories that don't follow standard genre conventions.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_115685_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On October 21, 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 October 21, 1986, the House of Bishops in
England agreed that a bishop of the Church of England should not
exercise episcopal care over a priest and congregation situated in a
diocese of another province except with the consent of the proper
authorities of that province.

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>CATALYST

"A Paradise Built in Hell - The Extraordinary Communities that Arise
in Disaster" from Penguin Group, by Rebecca Solnit, 353 pages,
hardcover, c. 2009, $27.95

[Penguin Group] Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster --
whether manmade or natural -- people suddenly become altruistic,
resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and
purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous?
And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires
and possibilities?

In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit
explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906
earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up
Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws
people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social
possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths
and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a
timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work
consistently locates unseen patterns an meanings in broad cultural
histories.

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