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>Episcopal News Service
>June 25, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: PBS segment features 'Prism'
restorative justice ministry
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SAN DIEGO: Parishioners to resume worship July 4
at St. Anne's Church
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - TEXAS: Oil employees, environmental activists
pledge to renew the environment together at Houston prayer vigil
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: As G8 meets, World Council of Churches leader
sounds warning on Haiti
* PEOPLE - Grace Cathedral names Jane Alison Shaw as dean
* PEOPLE - Dallas Episcopal school founder Mary Loving Blair
remembered as passionate teacher, Cowboys fan
* DAYBOOK - June 28: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Laugh Your Way to Grace - Reclaiming the Spiritual
Power of Humor"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: PBS segment features 'Prism' restorative justice ministry

'A powerful connection': jail a holy place for chaplain

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Dennis Gibbs received an urgent
phone call from a New York City stranger right after a PBS Religion
and Ethics Newsweekly segment featured Gibbs' chaplaincy at the Twin
Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, one of the country's
largest jails.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123114_ENG_HTM.htm

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SAN DIEGO: Parishioners to resume worship July 4 at St. Anne's Church

Former breakaway property returned to the diocese

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Jack Plummer isn't expecting fireworks but
rather a "sweet, sweet spirit" July 4 when parishioners resume worship
for the first time in more than three years at St. Anne's Episcopal
Church in Oceanside, California.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123127_ENG_HTM.htm

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TEXAS: Oil employees, environmental activists pledge to renew the
environment together at Houston prayer vigil

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Oil company employees and environmental
activists alike gathered in vigil on June 24 at St. Stephen's Church
in Houston, Texas, offering prayers for those affected by the Gulf
Coast oil spill and pledging to help renew the environment.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123136_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: As G8 meets, World Council of Churches leader sounds warning on  Haiti

>By Stephen Brown

[Ecumenical News International] The head of the World Council of
Churches has appealed to world leaders gathering in Canada to ensure
that long-term development assistance is provided for Haiti, still
reeling from a devastating January earthquake.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123113_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Grace Cathedral names Jane Alison Shaw as dean

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of California Bishop Marc
Handley Andrus and the Grace Cathedral board of trustees in San
Francisco announced June 25 the appointment of the Rev. Canon Dr. Jane
Alison Shaw as the cathedral's next dean.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_123137_ENG_HTM.htm

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Dallas Episcopal school founder Mary Loving Blair remembered as
passionate teacher, Cowboys fan

>By ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] Friends and family remembered Mary Loving
Blair as a passionate teacher at a June 24 memorial service at the
Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Dallas, where in 1972 she
founded the Parish Day School.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_123117_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On June 28, 2010, the church remembers Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons.

* 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 June 28, 1491, Henry VIII of England was born
in Greenwich Palace, London.

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>EBAR PICK

"Laugh Your Way to Grace - Reclaiming the Spiritual Power of Humor" by
The Rev. Susan Sparks, paperback, 176 pages, c. May 2010, $16.99.

[Skylight Paths] America's only female stand-up comedian with a
pulpit! Laughter was honored by the ancients as a spiritual healing
tool and celebrated by the world's great religions. So why aren't we
laughing along the spiritual path today? What would happen if we did?

In this personal and funny look at humor as a spiritual practice, the
Rev. Susan Sparks-an ex-lawyer turned comedian and Baptist
minister-presents a convincing case that the power of humor radiates
far beyond punch lines. Laughter can help you:

* Remove the fearful mask of a God who doesn't laugh
* Debunk the myths that you don't deserve joy
* Find perspective when faced with adversity
* Exercise forgiveness for yourself and others
* Reclaim play as a spiritual practice
* Heal -- emotionally, physically, and spiritually
* Keep your faith when God is silent
* Live with elegance, beauty, and generosity of spirit

Whatever your faith tradition -- or if you have none at all -- join
this veteran of the punch line and the pulpit in reclaiming the
forgotten humor legacy found in thousands of years of human spiritual
history.

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