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September 26, 1997
Episcopal News Service
Jim Solheim, Director
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Reviews & Resources

National conference focuses on death penalty
      (ENS) In partnership with numerous religious and activist groups,
the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has organized
"Envisioning a World Without Violence," a campaign to awaken the
religious community to the immorality of the death penalty and to
impassion people of faith to work for its abolition. From November 13-
16, a diverse group of religious leaders and lay people will gather in
Washington, D.C., for a national conference focusing on the death
penalty from a religious perspective. According to an announcement from
AFSC, the goal of the gathering is to "empower individuals by providing
them with essential resources so they may return to their religious
communities as more effective advocates against the death penalty."
Featured speakers include Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man
Walking, the Rev. Bernice King, author of Hard Questions, Heart
Answers, and Millard Fuller, co-founder of Habitat for Humanity
International. For more information, call Pat Clark (215-241-7130) or
Kurt Rosenberg (215-241-7124) at AFSC.

Small Church gathering at Sewanee announced
      (ENS) The Center for Ministry in Small Churches will sponsor
the Annual Gathering on November 9-11 at the DuBose Conference
Center in Monteagle, Tennessee. The Rev. Dr. Tex Sample, professor of
church and society at St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City,
Missouri, is the keynote speaker. Sample is the author of "Ministry in an
Oral Culture: Living with Will Rogers, Uncle Remus and Minnie Pearl."
Among the workshops offered at this year's gathering are music
resources for small churches, conflict and small churches, godly play in
small churches, and youth ministry. To register, or for more information,
call 800-722-1974.

Online mailing list for the discussion of church music available
      (ENS) Church music is the topic for a new internet mailing list
called "churchmusic-l". The list has a practical/pastoral focus for people
who plan music for the rites of the church. The Revised Common
Lectionary with denominational variations will be used as a guide for
discussions. Choral music exchange, software for music ministry, and
distribution of new church music also will be discussed. Churchmusic-l is
unmoderated and free. Its scope is global and ecumenical. To subscribe,
send mail to: majordomo@churchoffice.com and in the body of your
message write only the following:

      subscribe churchmusic-l your@e-mail.address

or point your browser to 

      www.churchoffice.com/mlists.html 

and follow the links from "Church Music" to the subscription form.

Photographs available in this issue of ENS:

1. Episcopalians respond to failure of concordat (97-1959)*
2. Presiding bishop gives General Convention medallions (97-1960)*
3. Members of interim bodies selected (97-1960)*
4. Griswold meets staff in New York as first step in transition (97-
1960)*
5. Alaska consecrates Mark MacDonald as its seventh bishop (97-1961)*
6. Bishop Mark MacDonald's first parish visit includes a baptism (97-
1961)*
7. Alaska consecrates Mark MacDonald as its seventh bishop (97-1961)*
8. New bishop of Alaska celebrates first Eucharist (97-1961)*
9. Bishop Mark MacDonald of Alaska receives signs of his office (97-
1961)*
10. Episcopalians join in mourning Princess Diana (97-1966)*
11. Flowers offered to memory of Princess Diana (97-1966)*

* This photo is available in color.