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>Episcopal News Service
>October 28, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - INDIANAPOLIS: Daughter of Muslim cleric ordained
an Episcopal deacon
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEW YORK: Bishop Andrew Smith appointed assistant 
bishop
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Church groups campaign against Anglican 
Covenant
* OPINION - Episcopal campus ministries offer grace, acceptance to
LGBTQ students
* DAYBOOK - October 29: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches
from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

INDIANAPOLIS: Daughter of Muslim cleric ordained an Episcopal deacon

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] A strong passion to help others guided the
Rev. Fatima Yakubu-Madus, daughter of a Muslim imam, to her recent
ordination as a deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_125467_ENG_HTM.htm

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NEW YORK: Bishop Andrew Smith appointed assistant bishop

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] New York Bishop Mark S. Sisk announced Oct.
28 the appointment of retired Connecticut Bishop Andrew "Drew" Smith
as assistant bishop effective Nov. 1.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_125459_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Church groups campaign against Anglican Covenant

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Two progressive Anglican groups, Inclusive
Church and Modern Church, have joined together to campaign against the
proposed Anglican Covenant, which they say is "an attempt by some
leaders of the Anglican Communion to subordinate national churches to
a centralized international authority, with power to forbid
developments when another province objects."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125456_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Episcopal campus ministries offer grace, acceptance to LGBTQ students

>By Brede Eschliman

[Episcopal News Service] Many feel disgust at the bullying of
teenagers perceived to be different, and many mourn the loss of young
people who have ended their own lives as a result. Sympathetic
individuals are trying to reach out to these young people, to assure
them that things will get better.

On some college campuses, Episcopal ministries are already making
things better. Campus ministries that boldly affirm transgender, gay,
straight, bisexual, and lesbian students improve lives and uplift
spirits.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_125446_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On October 29, 2010, the church remembers James Hannington, bishop of
Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his companions, martyrs.

* 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 29, 1704, John Locke, English
philosopher, died in Essex, England.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between
Christianity and Islam" by Eliza Griswold, hardcover, 336 pages,
August 2010, $27.00

[Farrar, Straus and Giroux] A riveting investigation of the jagged
fault line between the Christian and Muslim worlds

The tenth parallel -- the line of latitude seven hundred miles north
of the equator -- is a geographical and ideological front line where
Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world's 1.3
billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of
the world's 2 billion Christians. Here, in the buzzing megacities and
swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is where the two religions meet;
their encounter is shaping the future of each faith, and of whole
societies as well.

An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has
spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth
parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia,
Malaysia, and the Philippines. The stories she tells in The Tenth
Parallel show us that religious conflicts are also conflicts about
land, water, oil, and other natural resources, and that local and
tribal issues are often shaped by religious ideas. Above all, she
makes clear that, for the people she writes about, one's sense of God
is shaped by one's place on earth; along the tenth parallel, faith is
geographic and demographic.
An urgent examination of the relationship between faith and worldly
power, The Tenth Parallel is an essential work about the conflicts
over religion, nationhood and natural resources that will remake the
world in the years to come.

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