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>Episcopal Life Daily
>December 9, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Faith groups express hopes for Copenhagen Climate Change
Conference
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Inclusive Church supports L.A. elections,
regrets Canterbury's response
* WORLD REPORT - INDIA: Churches reject homophobia, call for in-depth
theological study on human sexuality
* OPINION - Copenhagen: Jesus with a bullhorn
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - December 13, 2009 - Third Sunday of Advent -  Year C
* DAYBOOK - December 10: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Mary and her Miracle - The Christmas Story Retold

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>TOP STORIES

Faith groups express hopes for Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

>By Phina Borgeson

[Episcopal News Service] As delegates gather in Copenhagen for the
United Nations Climate Change Conference Dec. 7-18, the hopes of faith
groups concerned are represented in written statements and personal
witness.

The Rev. Jeff Golliher, program associate for the environment and
sustainable development in the Office of the Anglican Observer at the
U.N., has led a delegation of concerned leaders from around the
communion.

Drawn primarily from the global south, members of the delegation
include Eliud Njeru Njiru of Kenya, a member of the Anglican Communion
Environmental Network (ACEN), and the Rev. Grace Kaiso, general
secretary of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa. Marco Lutaya
and Anna Gula, also from the Anglican Observer's office, are
attending.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_117630_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Inclusive Church supports L.A. elections, regrets Canterbury's  response

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The U.K.-based Inclusive Church network has
welcomed the elections of the Rev. Canon Diane Jardine Bruce and the
Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool as suffragan bishops in the Diocese
of Los Angeles, while disassociating itself from the subsequent
response from Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_117632_ENG_HTM.htm

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INDIA: Churches reject homophobia, call for in-depth theological study
on human sexuality

[Episcopal News Service] A group of Christians in India has rejected
attitudes of homophobia and discrimination against sexual minorities,
while calling for an in-depth theological study on human sexuality.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_117633_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Copenhagen: Jesus with a bullhorn

>By Michael Schut

[Episcopal News Service] Imagine you are home. Not necessarily the
place where you lay your head to rest each night, but the place that
feels like home in your bones, in your heart.

Remember the laughter, the tears; maybe the snap of the fall air
flushing your cheeks, the hammer of heat, the dew on a soft morning;
or the pigeons' soothing call, the tapping of tree limbs in the wind;
or the tide caressing, then slamming, the shore. Now imagine it's all
gone. And you can't go back.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_117629_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_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

December 13, 2009 - Third Sunday of Advent - Year C

(RCL) Zephaniah 3:14-20; Canticle 9; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18

>By the Rev. Danáe Ashley

[Sermons That Work] Have you ever heard the saying, "It's not what you
know, it's who you know?" Networking has been an established social
function in society for as long as there have been people. We often
use our connections to get us into social circles and places we might
have difficulty getting into alone.

On television shows and in the media we see people getting things they
want because of their family connections or social circles. Most of us
have probably done the something like that too. For example, we would
rather go to someone we know or to someone recommended than go to a
stranger for a haircut or to get our car fixed. That sort of
networking is harmless, right?

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_117364_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On December 10, 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 December 10, 1988, John Shelby Spong ordained
Australian Caroline H. Pearce to the priesthood. Pearce came to the
United States to study at General Seminary because the Anglican Church
of Australia did not ordain women to the priesthood.

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>CATALYST

"Mary and her Miracle - The Christmas Story Retold" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, illustrations by
Dianne Robbins, 100 pages, hardcover, c. 2007, $18

[Church Publishing, Inc.] For an ordinary girl named Mary, living in
an ordinary family in a dusty first-century town, extraordinary things
were beginning to happen. From the moment the angel greeted her with
the amazing news - a special baby was on the way! There was a miracle
was in the making.

This delightful story imagines the Christmas narrative from Nazareth
to Bethlehem. It's Mary's story, and it's told with gentle humor,
lively imagination, and a sense of wonder. Each chapter is beautifully
and tenderly illustrated by Dianne Robbins. Mary and Her Miracle is a
lovely addition to every family's Christmas tradition.

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