Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Tuesday, July 3, 2007.
* 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 1999, twenty-fifth Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold began his official visit to Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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TEACHING
Campus ministry conference offers rejuvenation
[Episcopal News Service] "Renovate: Episcopal Campus Ministry Conference" held at St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle, Washington June 23-25 drew more than 80 Episcopal college and university chaplains and those committed to campus ministry together for conversation and to experience transformation.
"For those who are called to be chaplains and undertake the church's evangelical mission on college campuses, the chaplains' gathering is a time of encouragement, strengthening, and renewal," said the Rev. Douglas Fenton, staff officer for Young Adult and Higher Education Ministries. "It is also a time of fellowship and community building with peers across the church."
Viewed as a discreet ministry that operates outside of the bounds of parochial ministry, Fenton said campus ministry is often overlooked, and "seen as an 'extra' and frequently is cut from diocesan budgets."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_87693_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Living Well While Doing Good" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Donna Schaper, 117 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $13
[Source: Church Publishing, Inc.] Can we really enjoy the world while trying to save it? Many of us want to do both, but find a balance difficult to achieve. Part how-to and part memoir, Schaper's book shows us a socially responsible way of having it all.
The short, humorous chapters are about simplifying: food and children, money, romance. From the Slow Food movement to the lighting of simple fires, Schaper provides basic strategies and spiritual solutions for living well and doing good, drawing from her own experience of working for social change while attempting to live fully.
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