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Daybook -- Today is Thursday, November 2, 2006. The Church calendar remembers Commemoration of All Faithful Departed.
* Today in Scripture: Daily Office meditation: http://www.forwardmovement.org/todaysreading.cfm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1164, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket began his six-year exile in France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket
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Diocesan Digest
ALASKA: Juneau man pleads guilty to Episcopal church arson http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78967_ENG_HTM.htm
ALBANY: Bishop, bishop suffragan announce retirements http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79160_ENG_HTM.htm
CALIFORNIA: Bishop calls diocese into dance of wisdom http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79029_ENG_HTM.htm
CONNECTICUT: FBI investigating church music director http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78978_ENG_HTM.htm
DALLAS: Bishop clarifies request for 'alternative primatial oversight' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79006_ENG_HTM.htm
EASTERN MICHGAN: First bishop says farewell, second bishop addresses convention http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78963_ENG_HTM.htm
EL CAMINO REAL: November 17 is deadline for bishop nominee applications http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79158_ENG_HTM.htm
EUROPE: Convocation of American Churches passes strategic plan http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79051_ENG_HTM.htm
KANSAS: Bishop tells convention to persevere in diversity http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78989_ENG_HTM.htm
MASSACHUSETTS: Mission partnerships and marriage issues top convention agenda http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79113_ENG_HTM.htm
NEBRASKA: Council hears call to 'take the grace and gifts of the gospel' to all http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79114_ENG_HTM.htm
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: Three men nominated to be next bishop http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79100_ENG_HTM.htm
SPRINGFIELD: Springfield's 129th Synod: 'We are One in the Spirit' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79106_ENG_HTM.htm
UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA: Diocese called to continue 'healthy church initiative' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_78992_ENG_HTM.htm
VERMONT: Bishop calls diocese to continue 'this spirit of koinonia' http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79087_ENG_HTM.htm
VIRGINIA: Bishop 'saddened' by mission's decision to dissolve http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79043_ENG_HTM.htm
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People
Dianne G. Warley to receive first Clinton R. Jones award http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79156_ENG_HTM.htm
Franklin Vilas to receive environmental leadership award http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79157_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Anglican Identities" from Cowley Publications, Rowan Williams, 149 pages, paperback, $13.95
[Source: Cowley Publications] -- Anglican Identities draws together studies and profiles by Rowan Williams that sympathetically explore approaches to scripture, tradition, and authority that are very different -- yet at the same time distinctively Anglican. William Tyndale, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, B. F. Westcott, Michael Ramsey, and John A. T. Robinson are among the writers and theologians whose work Archbishop Williams explores. Williams resists easy characterizations and makes surprising connections between apparently opposing positions. In his study of the Victorian biblical scholar B. F. Westcott, for example, he suggests that "we might begin to identify a style of Anglican liberalism that is rather different from what liberalism is commonly supposed to be."
Significantly, the name that recurs most often in these essays is that of Richard Hooker: "tantalizingly hard to pigeonhole -- like the Anglican tradition as a whole."
Anglican Identities conveys the richness of the Anglican mosaic without ducking the difficult question of how far diversity can stretch before a common tradition begins to fragment.
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