Episcopal Life Online Newslink May 2, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Mollegen Forum explores planet's water crisis, hears calls for 'theology of water' * WORLD REPORT - IRELAND: Learn from South Africans, world church leader urges Irish * WORLD REPORT - CONGO: Anglican Communion secretary general visits Province * DIOCESAN DIGEST - WEST TENNESSEE: Congregation celebrates last Easter at current site, prepares for move * SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL]
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TOP STORIES
Mollegen Forum explores planet's water crisis, hears calls for 'theology of water'
[Virginia Theological Seminary] Water is a gift from God and to treat it as anything else is to act in opposition to God, former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold told a recent gathering at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in Alexandria, Virginia.
"To withhold or contaminate water; to be unconscious or deliberately unaware of brothers and sisters who lack water and all else that upholds their wellbeing and dignity, is to stand against the very One under whom this nation of ours has placed itself," Griswold said during his remarks to the April 27 Mollegen Forum on water.
"The Water of Life: the Earth's Water Crisis" was a day-long forum featuring Griswold, environmental author Fred Pearce ("When the Rivers Run Dry"); environmental attorney Martha Franks; the Rev. Canon Peter G. Kreitler, Episcopal priest and host of the "EarthTalk Today" television series; and the Very Rev. Martha J. Horne, dean and president of Virginia Seminary.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_85515_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
IRELAND: Learn from South Africans, world church leader urges Irish http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_85509_ENG_HTM.htm
CONGO: Anglican Communion secretary general visits Province http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_85511_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
WEST TENNESSEE: Congregation celebrates last Easter at current site, prepares for move http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_85526_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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SPIRITUAL REFLECTION
Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year C [RCL]
Acts 11:1-18; Psalm 148; Revelation 21:1-6; John 13:31-35
By Ken Kesselus
[Episcopal Life] Think about filling up a cup with water. You can fill it only so far, right? Once it has been filled to the brim, what happens when you try to add more water to it? It overflows, of course. The same is true of a sponge that, submerged in water, becomes so saturated it can no long absorb and begins to shed what cannot swell it further.
Can we apply this scientific truth to the human spirit? Can we imagine someone becoming so filled up, so saturated with something, that she or he can't take in any more? Like a filled-up cup that can only overflow onto others, beginning to fill them?
God's love is like that, isn't it? Picture God's love overflowing from the filled-up one to the nearby one who benefits from the overflow. In today's Gospel, we hear Jesus saying to his followers, "Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another." The love that our Lord called them to display has a special definition: Jesus-like love.
Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_85482_ENG_HTM.htm
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