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>Episcopal Life Daily
>October 28, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - 17 Episcopal dioceses gather during Oct. 23-25
weekend for convention, celebration, connection
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: First woman priest to be ordained Nov.  15
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - GEORGIA: Superior Court rules Christ Church
Savannah is held in trust for the Episcopal Church
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEW YORK: Ray Suarez preaches on stewardship at
Trinity Wall Street
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEWARK: Brueggemann calls disciples to leave their
'comfort zone' for ministry of transformation
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Coastal church leaders reject Muslim scarves at  schools
* PEOPLE - Katherine Ragsdale installed as Episcopal Divinity School's
president and dean
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - November 1 - All Saints' Sunday - Year B
* DAYBOOK - October 29: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - National Geographic Book of Peoples of the World - A
Guide to Cultures

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

17 Episcopal dioceses gather during Oct. 23-25 weekend for
convention, celebration, connection

Mission, evangelism, and stewardship frame agendas

>by ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] From California to Connecticut, Puerto Rico
to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, thousands of Episcopalians who gathered in
17 dioceses across the Episcopal Church for annual convention meetings
elected diocesan leadership, approved operating budgets, recommitted
to mission and ministry, and engaged the Gospel, Scripture study,
conversation and each other.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116180_ENG_HTM.htm

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FORT WORTH: First woman priest to be ordained Nov. 15

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Thirty-three years after the Episcopal Church
approved the ordination of women to the priesthood and to the
episcopate, the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, is following suit.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116178_ENG_HTM.htm

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GEORGIA: Superior Court rules Christ Church Savannah is held in trust
for the Episcopal Church

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Chatham County Court on Oct. 27 ruled
that the property of Christ Episcopal Church in Savannah, Georgia,
must be used for the mission of the Episcopal Church and the Diocese
of Georgia following some two years of litigation with the breakaway
congregation.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116169_ENG_HTM.htm

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NEW YORK: Ray Suarez preaches on stewardship at Trinity Wall Street

>By Nicole Seiferth

[Trinity Wall Street] Trinity Wall Street's annual stewardship
campaign recently got some help from Ray Suarez, senior correspondent
for the Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Suarez was the guest preacher at the
downtown Manhattan church on Oct. 25, and spoke at the parish's
campaign kick-off following the service.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116163_ENG_HTM.htm

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NEWARK: Brueggemann calls disciples to leave their 'comfort zone' for
ministry of transformation

>By Sharon Sheridan

[Episcopal News Service] Christians are a subversive lot, biblical
scholar the Rev. Walter Brueggemann recently told a gathering in the
Episcopal Diocese of Newark. "Every time the church prays, 'Thy
kingdom come, they will be done, on earth as it in heaven,' it is
praying for a new order. And from time to time in the long history,
the prayers and the hymns and the meals take hold, and newness
erupts."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116155_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

KENYA: Coastal church leaders reject Muslim scarves at schools

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] Churches have the right to
determine dress code in their own schools, Christian leaders in
Kenya's coastal region have said after their rulings on the wearing of
the hijab, a headscarf often worn by Muslim women, were questioned by
local followers of Islam.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116174_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Katherine Ragsdale installed as Episcopal Divinity School's president  and dean

[Episcopal Divinity School] Led by the swirling flight of a white
dove, a procession clad in a rainbow of academic gowns and ecclesial
vestments made its way down Brattle Street on Friday, Oct. 23, for the
installation of the Very Rev. Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale as the
fifth president and dean of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_116159_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available
at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

>November 1 - All Saints' Sunday - Year B

(RCL) Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9 or Isaiah 25:6-9; Psalm 24; Revelation
21:1-6a; John 11:32-44

>By the Rev. Frank S. Logue

[Sermons That Work] Mary and Martha of Bethany are deep in shock and
lost in grief for their brother Lazarus. The sisters had sent word to
Jesus that Lazarus was ill. On receiving the message, Jesus had waited
two long days. By the time he got to Bethany, Lazarus had been dead
four days.

Full story:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_115560_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On October 29, 2009, the church remembers James Hannington, bishop of
Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his companions, martyrs.

* 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 29, 1704, John Locke, English
philosopher, died in Essex, England.

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>CATALYST

"National Geographic Book of Peoples of the World - A Guide to
Cultures" from National Geographic, edited by Wade Davis, K. David
Harrison, and Catherine Herbert Howell, 383 pages, hardcover, c. 2009,
$40

[National Geographic] Oxford's fabled streets echo with the names of
such key figures in English history as Edmund Halley, John Wycliffe,
and John and Charles Wesley. Of more recent times are those of C. S.
Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other members of the renowned
literary circle to which they belonged, the Inklings.

What would it be like to walk this medieval city's narrow lanes in the
company of such giants of Christian literature, to visit Magdalen
College, where Lewis and Tolkien read aloud their works-in-progress to
their friends, or the Eagle and Child pub, the Inklings' favorite
gathering place?

The lavish photography of this book will introduce you to the
fascinating world of the Inklings, matching their words to the places
where these friends discussed -- and argued over -- theology,
philosophy, ancient Norse myth, and Old Icelandic, while writing
stories that were to become classics of the faith.

The Inklings of Oxford will deepen your knowledge of and appreciation
for this unique set of personalities. The book also features a helpful
map section for taking walking tours of Oxford University and its
environs.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit
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