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>Episcopal News Service
>October 19, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Presiding bishop offers a Christian perspective on the
pursuit of happiness
* TOP STORY - Interfaith-government partnership combats teen pregnancy
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - QUINCY: Diocese ordains its first woman priest
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Diocese of Montreal moves toward shared
episcopal ministry
* WORLD REPORT - INDIA: Archbishop of Canterbury criticizes European 
burqa bans
* WORLD REPORT - Archbishop of Canterbury helps Church of North India 
turn 40
* WORLD REPORT - Anglican head concerned for failed Zimbabwe asylum 
seekers
* MISSION - General Seminary approves plan for financial
restructuring, elects new board chair
* PEOPLE - General Theological Seminary awards 4 honorary degrees
* OPINION - Faith and Order Movement turns 100, by Tom Ferguson
* DAYBOOK - October 20: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "A Paradise Built in Hell - The
Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster"

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>TOP STORIES

Presiding bishop offers a Christian perspective on the pursuit of 
happiness

>By Nan Ross

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
encouraged an Atlanta audience Oct. 18 at Emory University to explore
the blessing of friendship as an aid for attaining happiness.

She joined three other speakers from Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist
traditions to provide a Christian perspective on the pursuit of
happiness during the Interfaith Summit on Happiness conference hosted
by Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125282_ENG_HTM.htm

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Interfaith-government partnership combats teen pregnancy

Episcopalians model cooperative effort in North Carolina

>By Sharon Sheridan

[Episcopal News Service] Religious groups and government bodies often
seem at odds over social issues such as preventing teen pregnancy. But
not in Gaston County, North Carolina, where an interfaith coalition
first convened in 2000 by Episcopalian William Seabrook to combat
issues related to homelessness in downtown Gastonia now is working
with the county health department and other secular groups to reduce
teen pregnancy.

Those efforts include raising awareness of the issue and encouraging
churches and other groups to implement programs of their choosing to
lower the number of teen pregnancies. The Gastonia Faith Network is
expected to be among the community partners in a recently announced
$5.8 million initiative funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention to tackle teen pregnancy in Gaston County.

"There's a natural partnership between the faith communities and
teen-pregnancy-prevention programs," said Amanda Fuller,
teen-pregnancy-prevention supervisor for the Gaston County Health
Department. "Both the health department and the faith community have a
shared interest in building strong families and the healthy
development of young people.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125261_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

QUINCY: Diocese ordains its first woman priest

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Margaret Lee on Oct. 16 became the
first woman to be ordained a priest in the 133-year history of the
Peoria, Illinois-based Episcopal Diocese of Quincy.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_125277_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Diocese of Montreal moves toward shared episcopal ministry

>By Harvey Shepherd

[Anglican Journal] Parishes and priests not on board with the openness
of the Diocese of Montreal and its bishop to the blessing of
same-gender unions may get access in the new year to spiritual
guidance from a bishop more in tune with their views.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125274_ENG_HTM.htm

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INDIA: Archbishop of Canterbury criticizes European burqa bans

>By Anto Akkara

[Ecumenical News International, Nagpur, India] Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams has deplored attempts by governments in
Europe to prohibit Muslim women from publicly wearing the burqa, a
garment that covers the entire body.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125254_ENG_HTM.htm

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Archbishop of Canterbury helps Church of North India turn 40

>By Anto Akkara

[Ecumenical News International, Nagpur, India] Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams has led celebrations to mark the 40th
anniversary of the Church of North India, which was formed by six
Protestant denominations, including Anglicans, in 1970.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125263_ENG_HTM.htm

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Anglican head concerned for failed Zimbabwe asylum seekers

>By Trevor Grundy

[Ecumenical News International, London] Human rights activists have
praised Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams for showing concern
about the safety problems failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers face if
they are forced to return and live under the regime of President
Robert Mugabe.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125268_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

General Seminary approves plan for financial restructuring, elects new
board chair

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] General Theological Seminary in New York has
announced a new initiative intended to eliminate $41 million of debt
and restore the school's endowment, according to an Oct. 18 press
release.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_125256_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

General Theological Seminary awards 4 honorary degrees

[Episcopal News Service] General Theological Seminary, at its fall
convocation on Oct. 14, awarded its Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris
causa, to bishops Mark M. Beckwith of Newark, George Councell of New
Jersey, Lawrence C. Provenzano of Long Island, and noted author and
retreat leader, the Rev. Nancy L. Roth.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_125270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Faith and Order Movement turns 100

>By Tom Ferguson

[Episcopal News Service] The year 2010 is one of anniversaries and
commemorations in the search for Christian unity: the modern
ecumenical movement got its start 100 years ago in Edinburgh,
Scotland. This week we celebrate the leading role the Episcopal Church
took in shaping the developing ecumenical movement.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_125269_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On October 20, 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 October 20, 1349, Pope Clement VI condemned
self-flagellation, speaking out against a veritable flagellation
frenzy. The practice, first taught by the Benedictine monk Peter
Damian in the mid-11th century, gained popularity during the
13th-century Black Death scare and continues today in isolated
incidents.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"A Paradise Built in Hell - The Extraordinary Communities that Arise
in Disaster" from Penguin Group, by Rebecca Solnit, 353 pages,
hardcover, c. 2009, $27.95

[Penguin Group] Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster --
whether manmade or natural -- people suddenly become altruistic,
resourceful, and brave?  What makes the newfound communities and
purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous?
And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires
and possibilities?

In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit
explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906
earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up
Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.  She examines how disaster throws
people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social
possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths
and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis.  This is a
timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work
consistently locates unseen patterns an meanings in broad cultural
histories.

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