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Daybook, from Episcopal News Service
September 21, 2004 - Tuesday: To Note

* Church's health, unity theme for upcoming Dallas, Atlanta conferences

* To Read: REINVENTING ANGLICANISM: A vision of confidence, community and
engagement in Anglican Christianity, by Bruce Kaye

Church's health, unity theme for upcoming Dallas, Atlanta conferences

By Daphne Mack

[ENS] Offered in partnership with more than 40 Episcopal parishes, "Going
Forward Together" will be the theme of two conferences organized to promote
health and unity in the Episcopal Church.

Meeting October 24-26 at St. Michael & All Angels Church in Dallas, Texas,
and November 7-9 at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, Georgia, the
conferences will provide numerous examples of some of the most vibrant
ministry taking place in Episcopal parishes across the nation.

Participants will explore "best practices" in parish ministry -- practical,
tangible ideas people can take back to their parishes -- encouraging "a
renewed sense of health and vitality in the Episcopal Church."

Keynote speakers will include: the Rev. Michael Battle, assistant professor
of Spirituality and Black Church Studies at the Divinity School of Duke
University; the Bishop Mark Dyer, professor of Systematic Theology and
Director of Spiritual Formation at Virginia Theological Seminary; Phyllis
Tickle, contributing editor in religion for Publishers Weekly; and the Rev.
John Westerhoff, theologian-in-residence at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in
Atlanta.

More than 20 workshops, led by clergy and lay presenters, will cover topics
ranging from understanding the church's place in current culture to an
examination of the results of the soon-to-be-released Lambeth Commission
report.

For further information please call John Gaskill, 901.767.6987, or visit:
www.goingforwardtogether.org.

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Note: The following title is available from the Episcopal Book Resource
Center, 815 Second Ave., New York, NY 10017; 800-334-7626;
www.episcopalbookstore.org.

To Read: REINVENTING ANGLICANISM: A vision of confidence, community and
engagement in Anglican Christianity by Bruce Kaye (New York City: Church
Publishing, 2003; 278 pages; $25.00.)
	From the publisher: "Using the Anglican Church of Australia as a
case study, Bruce Kaye argues that Anglicans must give up nostalgic notions
of Empire and a colonial past and concentrate on 'reinventing' Anglicanism
to emphasize the strengths of its interdependent diversity and cultural
pluralism -- vital tools for mission in a world deeply in need of
reconciliation."

Bruce Kaye has extensive experience in global Anglicanism. For 10 years he
served as General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Australia and has
taught at universities in England and Australia and lectured in Europe and
North America. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Anglican Studies.

--Daphne Mack is online editor of Episcopal News Service.