[ENS] Sudanese delegation wraps up 'awareness campaign'

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>Episcopal News Service
>October 21, 2010

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* TOP STORY - Sudanese delegation wraps up 'awareness campaign'
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Early morning fire damages
diocesan buildings
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Bishops, interfaith leaders stand up
for equality, defeating Proposition 8
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Christian leaders' stand on terror suspects
angers Muslims
* PEOPLE - Judith Anne Sullivan installed as dean of Philadelphia 
Cathedral
* DAYBOOK - October 22: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "The Invention of Air - A Story
of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America"

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>TOP STORIES

Sudanese delegation wraps up 'awareness campaign'

Shows 'unity' of its country's ecumenical movement

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Southern Sudan has held to its identity since
1947 when the British organized the Juba Conference, which combined
north and south into one political entity. Eight years later, in 1955,
the first shots were fired and the south began its fight toward
independence.

"The colonial administration drew the boundaries ... they already knew
the south was objecting to that kind of unity," said Roman Catholic
Bishop Daniel Adwok Oct. 20 during an interview with ENS in
Washington, D.C.

"The south has never accepted the unity; Sudan has never been a 
united coun try."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125325_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Early morning fire damages diocesan buildings

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] An early morning fire has damaged offices of
the Sacramento-based Episcopal Diocese of Northern California,
according to a statement posted on the diocesan website.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_125327_ENG_HTM.htm

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LOS ANGELES: Bishops, interfaith leaders stand up for equality,
defeating Proposition 8

>by Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Defeating Proposition 8, the California
voter-approved ban on gay marriage, is more than a legal issue; it's
also a matter of faith, Bishop Diocesan J. Jon Bruno of the Diocese of
Los Angeles told an Oct. 20 gathering of interfaith leaders at the
Cathedral Center of St. Paul.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_125320_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

KENYA: Christian leaders' stand on terror suspects angers Muslims

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] Christian leaders in Kenya
have cautiously backed the extradition of terror suspects to Uganda,
expulsions that have enraged Muslims in the east African country.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125305_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Judith Anne Sullivan installed as dean of Philadelphia Cathedral

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Judith Anne Sullivan, a former
corporate marketing executive with the Institute of Scientific
Information (now part of Thomson Reuters), was installed on Oct. 17 as
the fourth dean of Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_125313_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On October 22, 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 22, 1990, the diocesan synod of the
Anglican Diocese of Cape Town, South Africa, voted overwhelmingly in
favor of the ordination of women to the priesthood.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"The Invention of Air - A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the
Birth of America" from Penguin Group, by Steven Johnson, 254 pages,
hardcover, c. 2009, $25.95

[Penguin Group] The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas
wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence
and friendship in the midst of sweeping historical change that
provokes us to recast our understanding of the Founding Fathers.

It is the story of Joseph Priestley -- scientist and theologian,
protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson -- an
eighteenth-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the
invention of ecosystem science, the discovery of oxygen, the founding
of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the
United States.  And it is a story that only Steven Johnson, acclaimed
juggler of disciplines and provocative ideas, can do justice to.

In the 1780s, Priestley had established himself in his native England
as a brilliant scientist, a prominent minister, and an outspoken
advocate of the American Revolution, who had sustained long
correspondences with Franklin, Jefferson, and John Adams.  Ultimately,
his radicalism made his life politically uncomfortable, and he fled to
the nascent United States. Here, he was able to build conceptual
bridges linking the scientific, political, and religious impulses that
governed his life.  And through his close relationships with the
Founding Fathers -- Jefferson credited Priestley as the man who
prevented him from abandoning Christianity -- he exerted profound if
little-known influence on the shape and course of our history.

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
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