Episcopal Life Online Newslink May 18, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Lament is vital for the hope that transforms, Ndungane tells EDS commencement * DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEWARK: St. Philip's Academy recipient of two State-level awards * WORLD REPORT - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ERD responds to tornado in Dajabón * OPINION - Large congregations and the future of the church * ARTS - Artist's paintings draw from her life on the water
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TOP STORIES
Lament is vital for the hope that transforms, Ndungane tells EDS commencement
By Nan Cobbey
[Episcopal News Service] "Lament is the vital, fundamental, starting point for the hope that transforms," Archbishop Njongonkulu Winston Hugh Ndungane of Cape Town, Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, told more than 300 guests at Episcopal Divinity School's commencement May 17 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In an address that drew on South African Anglican theologian Denise Levertov and Teresa of Avila as well as the prophet Isaiah, Ndungane reminded the graduates and their friends that today's world too often demands instant solutions to its problems, "but God calls us to another way, the way of Emmanuel."
"Lament is about paying attention to the human predicament...about being honest with the realities of the world in which we live...about being prepared to listen to the stories of others," said Ndungane, who is known for his outspoken opposition to injustice and economic oppression in southern Africa and across the world.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_86116_ENG_HTM.htm
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
NEWARK: St. Philip's Academy recipient of two State-level awards http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_86118_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ERD responds to tornado in Dajabón http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_86120_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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OPINION
Large congregations and the future of the church
By Glenn Busch
[Episcopal Life] The family-owned stationery store serviced our church's office needs for decades. Whenever we needed paper, envelopes, or other supplies, there was no question where we would buy them. But that was back in the day, about 15 years ago, which indicates how quickly change relegates a familiar situation to the nostalgic past.
As our city grew, so did commercial and entrepreneurial interests. Soon the big box stores arrived and we had our own Office Depot, and shortly thereafter a Staples too.
It only took a few months before the big boxes forced the little stationery store into quiet submission. Realizing that they could not compete with the vast resources of their rivals, the owners called it the end of an era and closed the doors. Our parish now buys all of its supplies from one of the giants that did them in.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_86113_ENG_HTM.htm
More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm
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ARTS
Artist's paintings draw from her life on the water
[Episcopal Life] In "Talk of the Town" column in The New Yorker magazine, Ben McGrath wrote that Barbara Ernst Prey "may be, at this moment, the most widely viewed painter in the world."
Prey's work was shown late last year at the Seamen's Church Institute in New York in a series of paintings "Works on Water," developed over the many years of her connection with and living in fishing communities in Maine and Long Island.
"We romanticize the fishermen, but in reality it is a tough life with problems such as alcoholism and drug abuse. Fishermen are my neighbors and friends, one of the boats I often painted sank just off shore last summer with the captain trapped underneath. It's a gritty life behind the paintings," said Prey, who lives in Oyster Bay, New York, with her husband Jeffrey, a Presbyterian pastor, and son, Austin, and daughter, Emily.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_86111_ENG_HTM.htm
More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm
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