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[ENS] Forward Movement turns 75 years old / ALASKA: Bishop-elect Lattime completes consent process /
>Episcopal News Service >August 4, 2010 >Episcopal News Service is available at >http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens. >Today's Episcopal News Service includes: * TOP STORY - Forward Movement turns 75 years old * DIOCESAN DIGEST - WEST MISSOURI: Diocese announces three nominees for bishop * DIOCESAN DIGEST - WESTERN KANSAS: Diocese announces three nominees for bishop * DIOCESAN DIGEST - ALASKA: Bishop-elect Lattime completes consent process * WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Churches welcome peaceful turnout for referendum * MISSION - Member Mission offers tools, training for everyday missioners * CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services * SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - August 8, 2010 - Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 14 - Year C * DAYBOOK - August 5: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History * EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "A History of Modern Sudan" >_____________________ >TOP STORIES >Forward Movement turns 75 years old Effort to re-invigorate publisher echoes its founders >By Mary Frances Schjonberg [Episcopal News Service] The little booklets get tucked into purses, suit pockets and back pockets. They get taken out when their readers have a quiet moment to spend in prayer. For 75 years the Forward Day By Day booklets have been giving Episcopalians and others a page-a-day way to reflect on their faith. Now, Forward Movement, its publisher, is looking for new ways to continue living out the mission given to it during a financially bleak time in the life of the Episcopal Church and the world. Forward Movement board members, staff and experts from outside the organization are spending this anniversary year leading an effort to dream about and plan strategically for the years to come. "We're looking at how we can make full use of social networking and digital communications to reinvigorate the life of the church," the Rev. Richard Schmidt, Forward Movement's editor and director, told Episcopal News Service recently. "I know that the future will not consist entirely of print resources, particularly not of small pocket-sized books and pamphlets. I have no expectation that that market is going to disappear in the foreseeable future, but it needs to be supplemented with other things." Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_123858_ENG_HTM.htm More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens >_____________________ >DIOCESAN DIGEST WEST MISSOURI: Diocese announces three nominees for bishop >By ENS staff [Episcopal News Service] The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri announced Aug. 3 a slate of three nominees for the diocese's next bishop. Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123874_ENG_HTM.htm >- - - - - WESTERN KANSAS: Diocese announces three nominees for bishop >By Pat McCaughan [Episcopal News Service] The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas announced Aug. 3 a slate of three nominees for the diocese's next bishop. Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123887_ENG_HTM.htm >- - - - - ALASKA: Bishop-elect Lattime completes consent process >By ENS staff [Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's office announced Aug. 4 that Bishop-elect Mark Andrew Lattime of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska has received the required number of consents from bishops with jurisdiction and diocesan standing committees to his ordination and consecration. Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123892_ENG_HTM.htm More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm >_____________________ >WORLD REPORT KENYA: Churches welcome peaceful turnout for referendum >By Fredrick Nzwili [Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] Church leaders in Kenya have welcomed peaceful polling in a referendum for a new constitution for the East Africa country, drawn up after violence claimed more than 1000 lives following a disputed election in 2007. Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123885_ENG_HTM.htm More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm >_____________________ >MISSION Member Mission offers tools, training for everyday missioners >By Lynette Wilson [Episcopal News Service] What are you doing right now to make the world a better place? The answer to that question could change how you live your life. At least that is what the Rev. Wayne Schwab, coordinator of the Member Mission Network, would like to see happen. With the help of a grant from Trinity Wall Street, Schwab launched Member Mission in 2008 to "teach the baptized to see themselves as missionaries" in the world. "It's about living your faith and talking it, and in each area of daily life; the seven daily mission fields, that is so critical," said Schwab. Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_123889_ENG_HTM.htm More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm >_____________________ >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 >_____________________ >SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS August 8, 2010 - Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 14 - Year C >By Jason Sierra (RCL) Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 and Psalm 50:1-8, 23-24 (Track 2: Genesis 15:1-6 and Psalm 33:12-22); Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40 [Sermons That Work] A young man decided to plant a church in a southern suburb of Seattle. The neighborhood was marked by lower income and lower educational attainment than the suburbs to the north. His plan was simple: gather, share, explore. Gathered around a table, around a hearth, his small band of friends and neighborhood acquaintances shared their experiences of faith, God, and church, and they explored their common longing. In the absence of a building, they discovered what kind of a home they desired. In the absence of a clergyperson they raised up a leader they could respect. And in the absence of the Eucharist they explored what it was they hungered for. They were on a quest to discover the question to which their faith was the answer. We are a people of the question. We celebrate this as Episcopalians, our ability and space to question, to doubt, to wrestle and rest in the tensions. But as Christians, we are also the faith descendants of people of the question. Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_123564_ENG_HTM.htm More Spiritual Reflections: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm >_____________________ >DAYBOOK >On August 5, 2010... * 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 August 5, 1633, Archbishop of Canterbury George Abbot died at Croydon. >_____________________ >EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK "A History of Modern Sudan" by Robert O. Collins, paperback, 360 pages, July 2008, $27.99. [Cambridge University Press] Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between north and south, have exploded in Darfur. In his latest book, Robert Collins, a frequent visitor and veteran scholar of the region, traces Sudan's history across two hundred years to show how many of the tragedies of today have been planted in its past. The story begins with the conquest of Muhammad 'Ali in 1821, and moves through the Anglo-Egyptian condominium to independence in 1956. It then focuses on Sudanese rule in the post-independence years when the fragile democracy established by the British collapsed under sectarian strife. It is these religious and ethnic divides, the author contends, in conjunction with failed leadership, which have prolonged and sustained the conflict in Sudan. To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, call 800-903-5544, or visit your local Episcopal bookstore.