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>Episcopal Life Daily
>December 17, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop set to visit Liberia
* MISSION - Jubilee grants awarded for Episcopal Church mission and
ministry
* DAYBOOK - December 18: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

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>TOP STORIES

>Presiding Bishop set to visit Liberia

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori is scheduled to make her first official visit to Africa
with a weeklong trip to Liberia in January.

At the invitation of Episcopal Church of Liberia Bishop Jonathan B.B.
Hart, Jefferts Schori will witness the work of the church, celebrate
Mass at Trinity Cathedral in the capital Monrovia and visit
Episcopal-affiliated Cuttington University, among other stops both
inside and outside the nation's capital. In addition to meeting with
diocesan staff, clergy and vestry members, the presiding bishop is
scheduled to meet with U.S. Embassy and USAID officials and Liberian
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first elected African
woman president.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_117883_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Jubilee grants awarded for Episcopal Church mission and ministry

[Episcopal News Service] Four Episcopal Church ministries are due to
each receive $15,000 in 2010 to assist them with special initiatives
towards alleviating domestic poverty.

The efforts are focused in four Jubilee Ministry Centers, which are
congregations or agencies with connections to the Episcopal Church whose
mission efforts affect the lives of those in need, addressing basic
human needs and justice issues. Grants to Jubilee ministries are awarded
annually.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_117884_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On December 18, 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 18, 2001, a fire swept through the north
transept of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York
City, destroying the gift shop and threatening the sanctuary.

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>CATALYST

"The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier" from John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., by Tony Jones, 264 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $22.95

[John Wiley & Sons, Inc.] Following on the questions raised by Brian
McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging
exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing
"dispatches" about the thinking and practices of adventurous Emergent
Christians across the country, he offers an in-depth view of this new
"third way" of faith-its origins, its theology, and its views of truth,
scripture and interpretation, and the Emergent movement's hopeful and
life-giving sense of community. With the depth of theological expertise
and broad perspective he has gained as a pastor, writer, and leader of
the movement, Jones initiates readers into the Emergent conversation and
offers a new way forward for Christians in a post-Christian world. With
journalistic narrative as well as authoritative reflection, he draws
upon on-site research to provide fascinating examples and firsthand
stories of who is doing what, where, and why it matters.

"In the tradition of all great apologists, Jones has written both a
reasoned explication and a deeply personal explanation of emergent
Christianity. Every thinking Christian should read this book either for
the explication or the explanation. Wise ones will read it for both." --
Phyllis Tickle

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