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>Episcopal Life Daily
>November 10, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Stop environmental devastation of Coal River Mountain
mining project, EPPN urges
* TOP STORY - Rethinking theological education: New strategies include
partnerships, distance learning
* WORLD REPORT - CENTRAL AMERICA: Ida Wreaks Havoc in El Salvador; ERD
responds
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Thousands of church school pupils get ready to
mark inaugural interfaith week
* MISSION - Episcopal Church Foundation, Building Fund partner with
Northwestern Pennsylvania to discern 'ministry of buildings'
* DAYBOOK - November 11: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Advent with Evelyn Underhill

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>TOP STORIES

Stop environmental devastation of Coal River Mountain mining project,
EPPN urges

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Public Policy Network (EPPN) has
issued an appeal for church members to call on President Barack Obama to
end the Coal River Mountain mining project.

"Mountain top removal mining and valley fill practices cause significant
social and environmental impacts, often devastating ecosystems and
destroying human communities through water pollution and flooding," a
Nov. 10 EPPN alert said. "We have confirmed that blasting has begun on
Coal River Mountain, West Virginia, the highest peak ever slated for
mountaintop removal mining, and the West Virginia Department of
Environmental Protection (DEP) confirmed that coal was being moved off
the mountain."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_116623_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Rethinking theological education

New strategies include partnerships, distance learning

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] A handful of students in Rochester, New York,
may well be prototypical of one way the church will train Episcopalians
for ministry in the future. "We're going to have to have some
alternative delivery systems," said Diocese of Atlanta Bishop Neil
Alexander, who heads the House of Bishops Task Force on Theological
Education.

Given changing enrollments and challenged finances, alternatives already
in place involve distance learning and partnerships among the 11
Episcopal Church-affiliated seminaries and with other theological
institutions.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_116609_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CENTRAL AMERICA: Ida Wreaks Havoc in El Salvador; ERD responds

[Episcopal News Service] Hurricane Ida hit El Salvador late Saturday,
Nov. 7, fed by 145-kilometer-per-hour winds and causing heavy flooding.
The country's civil protection authorities reported that 91 people were
killed, 60 missing, and hundreds injured.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116597_ENG_HTM.htm

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ENGLAND: Thousands of church school pupils get ready to mark inaugural
interfaith week

[Church of England] Students and staff at many of the Church of
England's 4,500 primary and 220 secondary schools will be joining in the
U.K.'s first interfaith week, which begins this Sunday, Nov. 15.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116598_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Episcopal Church Foundation, Building Fund partner with Northwestern
Pennsylvania to discern 'ministry of buildings'

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF), the
Episcopal Church Building Fund (ECBF), and the Diocese of Northwestern
Pennsylvania are teaming up to develop what they say will be "a
thoughtful and spiritually grounded process to assist congregations with
the discernment of the ministry of buildings."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_116612_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On November 11, 2009, the church remembers Martin, bishop of Tours.

* 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 November 11, 1992, after a five-and-a-half hour
debate the General Synod -- the Church of England's governing body --
passed controversial legislation to allow women to be priests by a
margin of only two votes.

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>CATALYST

"Advent with Evelyn Underhill" from Church Publishing, Inc., edited by
Christopher Webber, 86 pages, paperback, c. 2006, $13

[Church Publishing, Inc.] For generations, readers have found in the
writings of Evelyn Underhill the guidance to help them deepen their own
interior lives in the Christian mystical tradition.

In this lovely volume, Anglican author and editor Christopher Webber has
carefully selected inspirational passages from Underhill's most
significant works, providing readings for every day of Advent and
Christmas - and sharing the timeless treasure of Underhill's spiritual
vision.

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