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>Episcopal News Service
>April 20, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Proclaiming the gospel calls for intimacy and
determination, preachers say
* TOP STORY - 'There are no quick solutions,' Canterbury says in video
message to Global South meeting
* TOP STORY - General Theological Seminary says it may have to sell
property to pay bills
* DAYBOOK - April 21: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Sacred Treasures IV - Quiet Prayers"

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>TOP STORIES

Proclaiming the gospel calls for intimacy and determination, preachers
say

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service - Kangua] Two preachers from different
generations called participants in the Preaching Jesus  conference here
to consider the profound effects that preaching can and should have on
them and on their listeners.

Lauren Winner, an assistant professor of Christian spirituality at Duke
Divinity School and author of a number of books including "Girl Meets
God," told the participants during an opening presentation April 19 that
sermon preparation "can be and is and actually should be a vital part of
the spiritual lives of those of us who preach."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_121792_ENG_HTM.htm

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'There are no quick solutions,' Canterbury says in video message to
Global South meeting

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Saying "there are no quick solutions for the
wounds of the body of Christ," Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
has sent a video greeting to the participants attending the Fourth
Anglican Global South to South Encounter, meeting April 19-23 in
Singapore.

Williams uses his video message "to emphasize that it is the work of
God's Spirit that can heal the tensions within the Anglican family," a
report from the Anglican Communion News Service says. "Williams was
speaking specifically to two items on the meeting's agenda: challenges
for the church's mission and the Anglican Communion covenant, which he
described as a new way of 'grounding our mission.'"

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_121780_ENG_HTM.htm

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General Theological Seminary says it may have to sell property to pay
bills

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The executive committee of General Theological
Seminary's board of trustees said April 19 that the school may have to
sell some of its property to raise enough money in order to pay its
bills after mid-November.

The Rev. Canon Denis O'Pray, chair of the trustees, said in a news
release that the committee considered merger or collaboration with other
entities, as well as the likelihood of "immediate philanthropy," before
coming to the conclusion that selling property was the "most reasonable
source" of money. He did not say what property might be sold.

The executive committee concluded that the school's "first priority"
must be to "develop a source of immediate cash relief so that seminary
operations can continue and debt be serviced until a long-term strategic
financial plan can be designed and implemented," O'Pray said.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_121777_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On April 21, 2010, the church remembers Anselm, archbishop of
Canterbury.

* 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 April 21, 1822, Hannibal Goodwin, former rector
of the Episcopal House of Prayer in Newark, New Jersey, was born in
Taughannock, New York.

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