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Daybook -- Today is Monday, May 1, 2006, in Eastertide. The Synod of the Midwest (Province V) opens its pre-General Convention meeting today in Detroit. Some U.S. dioceses also plan to participate in immigration-related events set for today across the nation.
* Today in Scripture: Daily Office meditation http://eds.libsyn.com * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1992, Clayton Matthews was elected a bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Virginia. He now directs the Office of Pastoral Ministry in the Presiding Bishop's Office. [http://www.thediocese.net/diocese/history.shtml]
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Monday Mission: Stem cells in context
Experts address Ecumenical Roundtable on Science, Technology and the Church By Phina Borgeson
[ENS] While the debate over the many ethical implications of stem cell research rages, studies in molecular genetics, genomics and cell development continue to yield new information. One of the learnings which may be surprising to many is that the differentiation of a stem cell depends on the environment or microniche where it resides.
"What a cell's neighbors 'say' to it chemically, and what it says to its neighbors, impact what kind of cell it becomes," reported Dr. Christie A. Holland, retired Professor and Chair of Virology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Children's Medical Center in Washington, D.C. "If context matters in ethics as well as in the development of a cell," posed Karen LeBacqz, bioethicist in residence at Yale, "we need to realize that we are talking about a different context here. It is a great pity that the debate around stem cells got framed in terms of the abortion debate. They are very different contexts." Holland and Lebacqz were addressing the Ecumenical Roundtable on Science, Technology and the Church, as part of the program, "Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Churches, Ethics, and Politicians" presented by members from the United Church of Christ. This year's Roundtable was hosted April 27-30 by the Executive Council Committee on Science, Technology and Faith at the Emrich Retreat and Conference Center in the Diocese of Michigan.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_74135_ENG_HTM.htm
Monday Media: New TV ad airs
[ENS] The Episcopal Church's new 30-second TV spot targeting Generation X women to "come and grow" in local congregations airs this week nationally in a media buy coordinated by Time Warner Cable. The ad features Gen-X priest Paige Blair of York Harbor, Maine, in a format set for replication in 2007 in Spanish (for airing in Puerto Rico and other Latin American dioceses) and in English in other regional settings. The ad may be viewed online at www.comeandgrow.org, and online contributions may be made through the website for the purchase of additional air time. Inquiries may be directed to Mike Collins, director of broadcast and multimedia communication at the Episcopal Church Center (800.334.7626). Strategic local and regional buys are also augmenting the following coast-to-coast schedule, determined by affordability and high viewership among Gen-X women. "Pre-log" air times are: -- Monday, May 1: ABC Family, 11:17am, 2:27pm, 2:04pm, 2:41pm. -- Tuesday, May 2: ABC Family, 12:09am; Lifetime Movie Network, 11:19am. -- Wednesday, May 3: Hallmark Channel, 12:13am, 1:16am; WE network, 8:50pm; Lifetime Movie Network, 8:40pm. -- Thursday, May 4: Discovery Health Channel, 3:07pm; Hallmark, 12:35am, 2:16am, 8:07am, 9:23pm; WE, 12:38am, 3:44am, 10:19am, 4:06pm, 6:08pm; Lifetime Movie Network, 6:08am, 3:13pm. -- Friday, May 5: ABC Family, 12:10am, 12:40am, 12:46pm, 1:04pm, 1:41pm, 2:27pm, 2:42pm, 5:29pm; Discovery Health, 1:11am, 2:12am, 11:43am, 12:06pm, 1:07pm, 7:25pm; Hallmark, 9:50am, 2:07pm, 3:16pm, 4:19pm, 5:43pm, 6:20pm; WE, 4:49am, 12:58pm, 4:42pm, 7:16pm; Lifetime Movie Network, 2:07am, 6:48am, 10am, 3:16pm, 5:43pm. -- Saturday, May 6: ABC Family, 1:29am; Discovery Health, 2:10pm, 7:52pm; Hallmark, 10:46am, 8:28pm; WE, 12:04am, 5:25am, 1:45pm; Lifetime Movie Network, 1:29pm. -- Sunday, May 7: Discovery Health, 12:10am, 2:25am, 7:36pm, 9:28pm; WE, 1:38pm, 10:10pm; Lifetime Movie Network, 1:54pm. - - -
Monday Music: St. Timothy's, Roxborough, gets 'organ transplant' [ENS] St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Roxborough, Philadelphia, and a team of experts from the John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Company of Champaign, Illinois, began in March the first stages of installing about 2,000 pipes that make up a reconditioned 1967 Wicks pipe organ. The instrument had just completed the journey to its new home in Roxborough from the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Illinois. St. Timothy's held a capital campaign in November 2005 to enable the purchase of the world-class instrument. The installation is scheduled for completion this week and will be played at services during May. The formal dedicatory recital is scheduled for October 8, 2006, and will feature music performed by Paul Jacobs, head of the organ department at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. More information and pictures of the project can be found on St. Timothy's website at www.sttimothysrox.com. Church office: phone, 215.483.1529, e-mail: sainttimothys@ucwphilly.rr.com.
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Catalyst: "The Spirit Searches Everything: Keeping Life's Questions" By Frederick Borsch (Cowley, 2005), 60 pages, paper. $13.95; www.cowley.org
ISBN-10: 1-56101-226-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-56101-226-8
[Source: Cowley] In this thoughtful and informative book, Frederick Borsch explores life's "big questions." In an inquisitive and pastoral voice, Borsch takes on the matters of thinking, awareness, the fundamental quality of creation, the possibility of a Spirit of life that underlies it all, good, evil, and meaning. With openness and honesty about the roles such questions have played in his own life as a husband, parent, teacher, and bishop, Borsch invites readers to engage the questions in their own life stories.
Praise for The Spirit Searches Everything
-- "With his formidable intellect Frederick Borsch has a remarkable knack for making things that are abstruse and difficult seem suddenly so comprehensible. Perhaps it is because he has such a profound reverence for persons." -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu -- "This is a brilliant book. I don't agree with all of it, but I know one thing as a certainty: In these pages a fully mature Christian engages his faith with wisdom, candor, and the kind of sanguine courage only prayerful living gives a man. Read it. You'll be the richer for having done so." -Phyllis Tickle, compiler, "The Divine Hours" -- "What has God got to do with it? Answering a question like that requires knowing something about 'it' as well as about God. Few ever meet that difficult double criterion with greater grace than Frederick Borsch does here." -Jack Miles, author of "God: A Biography" and "Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God"
About the author: The Rt. Rev. Frederick Houk Borsch was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles from 1988 to 2002. He has served as a parish priest and has taught at Princeton, Yale Divinity School, and Seabury-Western Seminary. The author or editor of 17 books, Borsch is presently Professor of New Testament and Chair of Anglican Studies at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
An interview with Frederick Borsch can be found at www.ExploreFaith.org.
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