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>Episcopal News Service
>March 17, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Los Angeles Bishop-elect Glasspool receives church's
consent to ordination
* TOP STORY - Sewanee's School of Theology among six sites chosen to
host communion-wide Bible project
* TOP STORY - Presiding bishop renews Episcopal Church's commitment to  refugees
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: International Women of Courage
honoree visits diocesan refugee resettlement ministry
* WORLD REPORT - INDIA: March and message highlight plight of Dalit  Christians
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - March 21, 2010 - Fifth Sunday in Lent - Year C
* DAYBOOK - March 18: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Rowan's Rule -- The Biography of the Archbishop of  Canterbury"

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>TOP STORIES

Los Angeles Bishop-elect Glasspool receives church's consent to  ordination

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop-elect Mary
Douglas Glasspool has received the required number of consents from
diocesan standing committees and bishops with jurisdiction to her
ordination and consecration as a bishop, the presiding bishop's office
confirmed in a March 17 announcement.

Glasspool was elected bishop on Dec. 5, 2009, the second of two
bishops suffragan elected at the 114th annual convention in the
Diocese of Los Angeles. In an unofficial tally, the diocese had
announced on March 10 that Glasspool had received 61 consents, five
more than the 56 required, from the church's diocesan standing
committees.

Her consecration, along with that of the Rev. Canon Diane Jardine
Bruce who was elected a day earlier, are planned for May 15. Presiding
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will be the chief consecrator.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_120933_ENG_HTM.htm

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Sewanee's School of Theology among six sites chosen to host
communion-wide Bible project

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service/Sewanee] The School of Theology
(http://theology.sewanee.edu) at Sewanee: The University of the South
has been chosen as one of six sites worldwide to host the Anglican
Communion's "Bible in the Life of the Church" project.

The project, which was launched in December 2009 during the steering
committee's first meeting in London, "aims to explore how Anglicans in
different contexts actually use the Bible by exploring Scripture
together and reflecting on the encounter; to produce resource
materials for use at all levels of Christian education; and to
re-evaluate the ways in which Anglicans have heard, studied, and
received Scripture," according to a news release from Sewanee, an
Episcopal Church-affiliated seminary in Tennessee.

"The School of Theology will host the North American group that will
be part of a new exploration of the ways the Bible functions in the
life of the church," the release says.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_120932_ENG_HTM.htm

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Presiding bishop renews Episcopal Church's commitment to refugees

[Episcopal News Service] Marking the 30th anniversary of the Refugee
Act that reformed United States immigration law, Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued a statement renewing the
Episcopal Church's "commitment to remember and advocate on behalf of
the uprooted, recognizing that situations of violence and war around
the world will continue to force people from their native lands."

In her statement, Jefferts Schori says the anniversary is a time to
"celebrate the renewal of life and hope experienced by the thousands
of people resettled through Episcopal Migration Ministries" and to
urge Congress "to enact much needed reform of the U.S. refugee
resettlement program, particularly through seeking the resources
necessary to promote self-sufficiency and to integrate refugees
seeking life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in our nation."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_120916_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: International Women of Courage honoree visits diocesan
refugee resettlement ministry

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Dr. Lee Ae-ran of the Republic of Korea had
received an international award for courage from Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, but on March 15 her congratulations were all for a
group of newly arrived Iranians at the Interfaith Refugee and
Immigration Service, an institution of the Diocese of Los Angeles.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_120929_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

INDIA: March and message highlight plight of Dalit Christians

>By Anto Akkara

[Ecumenical News International, Bangalore, India] Churches in India
are calling for equality and justice for discriminated and
marginalized communities in a Lenten campaign that has started in the
world's second most populous nation.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_120920_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_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

March 21, 2010 - Fifth Sunday in Lent - Year C

(RCL) Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8

>By the Rev. Angela V. Askew

[Sermons That Work] As we turn our faces now toward Palm Sunday and
Holy Week, we are given this last Sunday in Lent to ponder God's gift
of generosity and what that generosity means in our lives with Him and
one another.
We may start by looking at the family of Mary and Martha of Bethany,
with their brother Lazarus, as portrayed in today's reading from
John's gospel. Jesus came to their home and they gave a dinner for him
- a fine example of generous hospitality in the context of a small,
close-knit Jewish community of the time.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_120132_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On March 18, 2010, the church remembers Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem.

* 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 March 18, 1789, Charlotte Elliott, English
devotional writer, was born in Clapham, England. On March 18, 1612,
Bartholomew Legate, an English merchant known for his anti-Trinitarian
theology, was burnt at the stake at Smithfield.

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>EBAR PICK

"Rowan's Rule -- The Biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury" by
Rupert Shortt, 344 pages, hardcover, c. 2009, $30.

[Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company] A fascinating, fair-minded
depiction of Archbishop Rowan Williams. Rowan Williams is a complex
and controversial figure. Widely revered for his personal qualities,
he is also an intellectual giant who towers over almost all his
predecessors as Archbishop of Canterbury. Among other achievements, he
has trounced the atheist Richard Dawkins, and published over twenty
well-regarded books, including several volumes of poetry and a major
study of Dostoevsky.

Yet he is also one of the most reviled church leaders in modern
history. Long before facing calls to step down after his lecture on
sharia law in early 2008, he had been accused of heresy on account of
his pro-gay views. He has disappointed many of his own supporters as
well. So how has high office changed Rowan Williams? Has he been
bullied and manipulated? Or is he perhaps playing a long game, obliged
to rate church unity above the pursuit of his own vision at a time
when the Anglican Communion has never looked more unstable? Rupert
Shortt, already the author of an acclaimed introduction to the
Archbishop's thought, offers answers to these and other questions in
this authoritative biography.

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