Episcopal Life Online Newslink July 23, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Faith and Order conference explores history of ecumenical movement, looks to future * TOP STORY - Media relations, public information resources launched at Episcopal Church Center * TOP STORY - July 29 bulletin inserts feature Young Adult Service Corps * DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Parish supper program featured on Food Channel * DIOCESAN DIGEST - WESTERN NEW YORK: Diocesan Eucharist will use Mary's feast to focus on MDGs * WORLD REPORT - BURUNDI: Workshop addresses church's role in peace-building * WORLD REPORT - SPAIN: Reformed Episcopal Church welcomes Walking to Emmaus consultation * FEATURE - From 'superhero' to schoolwork -- California youth juggles Hollywood, home
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TOP STORIES
Faith and Order conference explores history of ecumenical movement, looks to future
By staff
[Episcopal News Service] "You of the Faith and Order movement are the salt of the earth," said the Rev. James Forbes, preaching at the final prayer service of a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first ecumenical Conference on Faith and Order.
Some 300 persons gathered July 19-23 on the campus of Oberlin College in Ohio, where the first meeting took place, for the National Council of Churches USA (NCC)-sponsored conference to take stock of the Christian ecumenical movement in North America. For five days participants examined several questions including what Christian unity in the United States might look like.
The movement known as "Faith and Order" actually traces its history in the United States to 1910 when Episcopal Bishop Charles Henry Brent and Disciples of Christ leader Peter Ainsley, among others, began to articulate the need for a setting where churches could together engage their differences in understanding the Christian faith and God's intention for the right-ordering of the Church.
Brent would have been pleased with the 2007 conference, Bishop C. Christopher Epting, the Episcopal Church's deputy for ecumenical and interfaith relations, told Episcopal News Service.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_88362_ENG_HTM.htm
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Media relations, public information resources launched at Episcopal Church Center 'NewsLine,' 'InfoLine' initiatives offer online, telephone assistance; Episcopal News Service focuses on headline coverage
[Episcopal News Service] Two new avenues for public information and media relations are now in place in the Communication Office at the Episcopal Church Center.
The Episcopal Church "NewsLine" provides reporters and other representatives of public and church-based media with services ranging from interview scheduling and media credentialing to story "backgrounding" and answers to frequently asked questions.
"The NewsLine staff works proactively to offer story leads, and to help the Episcopal Church tell its full story locally, regionally and internationally," said Canon Robert Williams, the Episcopal Church's director of communication, in announcing the news service.
"Our story is the mission and vitality of the church, not the sort of conflict that has tended to grab headlines in recent years," Williams said. "It's time for a sea change in telling our story, and for Episcopalians churchwide to pull together in this effort. NewsLine will help us in this effort."
NewsLine is online at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/newsline. It is coordinated by Neva Rae Fox, communication specialist at the Episcopal Church Center, who is also available by telephone at 212-716-6080 or toll-free at 800-334-7626, ext. 6080.
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July 29 bulletin inserts feature Young Adult Service Corps
[Episcopal Life This Week] The July 29 Episcopal Life bulletin inserts feature the Young Adult Service Corps (YASC), a one-year overseas mission program designed for young people in their 20s who want to deepen their faith through cross-cultural service.
Bulletin inserts are available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_8852_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
LOS ANGELES: Parish supper program featured on Food Channel http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_88352_ENG_HTM.htm
WESTERN NEW YORK: Diocesan Eucharist will use Mary's feast to focus on MDGs http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_88341_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
BURUNDI: Workshop addresses church's role in peace-building http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88359_ENG_HTM.htm
SPAIN: Reformed Episcopal Church welcomes Walking to Emmaus consultation http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_88361_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
From 'superhero' to schoolwork -- California youth juggles Hollywood, home
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service, Laguna Beach, California] Episcopalian Graham Phillips has strolled the red carpet at a Hollywood premiere, co-starred with Morgan Freeman and Steve Carell, and is cast as a superhero in an upcoming TV movie, but the 14-year-old Southern Californian considers his life far more normal than glamorous.
He laughs at obvious inconsistencies: "Evan Almighty was the first time I was on a red carpet, and the red carpet was actually green. It was a green movie, an environmentally sensitive movie. Our motto was, 'leave no trace.' For any fuel emissions caused by transportation, a tree was planted that in time would absorb the carbon.
"We recycled the wood from the ark and gave it to Habitat for Humanity to help with house-builds."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_88350_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm