Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Friday, June 29, 2007. The Church calendar remembers Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles.
* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm * Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm * Today in History: On this day in 1814, Frederick W. Faber, English theologian, hymnist and member of the Oxford movement, was born in Yorkshire, England.
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MULTIMEDIA
Alexander Baumgarten on the Millennium Development Goals
[Episcopal News Service] More than one billion people -- one-sixth of the world's population -- live each day under the weight of extreme poverty. In order to meet the challenge of addressing global poverty in all its dimensions, world leaders in 2000 created the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight quantifiable targets designed to cut poverty in half by the year 2015. The MDGs envision rich and poor nations working together in partnership to combat poverty.
Despite the extraordinary promise of the MDGs, progress has been slow, and most of the world's poorest regions are destined to fall far short of meeting the MDGs unless significantly increased resources from the world's rich nations are made available.
Alexander Baumgarten, international policy analyst in the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations, offers an overview of the MDGs at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm
Further information about the MDGs is available at http://globalgood.org and http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3654_71627_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "What Saint Paul Really Said" from Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing Co., by N.T. Wright, 192 pages, paperback, c. 1997, $16
[Source: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.] St. Paul continues to provoke people as much today as he did in the first century. Some see him as the greatest teacher of Christianity after Jesus himself, while others regard him as a pestilent and dangerous fellow. Over the years, scholars have debated and written books on the historic Paul and his role in the birth of Christianity. In the recent past, English novelist and biographer A.N. Wilson revived the old argument that it was Paul of Tarsus and not Jesus of Nazareth who founded Christianity.
In What Saint Paul Really Said, N.T. Wright -- a world authority on the life and letters of Paul -- leads readers through the current scholarly discussion of Paul and gives a concise account of the actual contribution Paul made to the birth of Christianity. Wright offers a critique of the argument that claims that it was Paul who founded Christianity and shows clearly that Paul was not "the founder of Christianity" but was the faithful witness and herald of Jesus of Nazareth, the Jewish Messiah and the risen Lord of the Christian faith.
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