Episcopal Life Online Newslink September 21, 2007
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Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Archbishop of Canterbury 'encouraged' by bishops' meetings * TOP STORY - Raise prophetic voices against poverty, Paul Farmer tells bishops * TOP STORY - Archbishop Rowan Williams' opening remarks at September 21 news conference * DIOCESAN DIGEST - CALIFORNIA: Young adults work for local, global justice * DIOCESAN DIGEST - OLYMPIA: Gregory Rickel ordained and consecrated as eighth bishop * WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Church may soon be reimbursed for schools payouts * MULTIMEDIA - Video: New Orleans murder board * MULTIMEDIA - Video: House of Bishops September 21 news conference * MULTIMEDIA - Image Gallery: Archbishop of Canterbury visits New Orleans lower Ninth Ward * MULTIMEDIA - Image Gallery: House of Bishops September 21 news conference * OPINION - Getting beyond slogans and scapegoats
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TOP STORIES
Archbishop of Canterbury 'encouraged' by bishops' meetings Nearly $1 million raised for hurricane relief efforts
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service, New Orleans] After two days of "encouraging" talks with the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told reporters September 21 that if the Anglican Communion resolves its differences enough to avoid schism "it will have done something for the entire Christian community."
Williams, who made pastoral visits to hurricane-damaged areas of New Orleans and preached at a September 20 ecumenical service where dioceses donated $931,000 for disaster relief, said outstanding local recovery efforts helped focus bishops' conversations around "our need for one another."
"The need we have for each other is very deep, it came across yesterday in much of the discussion in our first session," Williams told more than 60 international, national and local reporters at a Friday afternoon news conference.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90264_ENG_HTM.htm
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Raise prophetic voices against poverty, Paul Farmer tells bishops Medical anthropologist underscores importance of achieving MDGs
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Medical anthropologist Paul Farmer told the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops September 21 that the church's prophetic voice must be heard in the global debates about the most effective ways to eradicate extreme poverty and guarantee basic rights to all.
"When the churches are united around social justice issues, it's very powerful," he said. "It's hard to shout down a bishop."
Farmer, also a physician, is a founding director of Partners in Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. He is on the staff of Harvard University's Department of Social Medicine. Farmer's work focuses on diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90263_ENG_HTM.htm
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Archbishop Rowan Williams' opening remarks at September 21 news conference
[Episcopal News Service] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, told media gathered at the House of Bishops September 21 news conference in New Orleans that "one of the greatest privileges of being here has been the chance to see something of the quite outstanding work being done by the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana in the ongoing work of social reconstruction in a city still deeply scarred by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina two years ago."
The full text of Williams' opening remarks to the media is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90250_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
CALIFORNIA: Young adults work for local, global justice http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_90227_ENG_HTM.htm
OLYMPIA: Gregory Rickel ordained and consecrated as eighth bishop http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_90229_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
CANADA: Church may soon be reimbursed for schools payouts http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90239_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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MULTIMEDIA
Video: New Orleans murder board
[Episcopal Life Online] On two plastic boards, posted outside St. Anna's Episcopal Church in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, are the names and gender of every murder victim in the city, the date they were killed, and what it was that killed them.
Every week, the Rev. Bill Terry adds more names in testimony to the tragedy of another life lost, and has a single red rose delivered to Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Chief Warren Riley every Monday marking each death that weekend.
Last year, New Orleans' murder rate stood at roughly 70 homicides per 100,000 people, the highest in the country, according to FBI crime statistics and population data.
The Rev. Jan Nunley talks with Terry about the murder board.
A video report is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_27398_ENG_HTM.htm
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Video: House of Bishops September 21 news conference
[Episcopal Life Online] Addressing the media at September 21 news conference as part of the House of Bishops meeting were Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, bishops Duncan Gray III of Mississippi, Charles Jenkins of Louisiana, and Bishop Suffragan Catherine Roskam of New York, a member of the Episcopal Church's delegation to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
A video stream of the opening comments from the news conference is available in two parts at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_27398_ENG_HTM.htm
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Image Gallery: Archbishop of Canterbury visits New Orleans lower Ninth Ward
[Episcopal Life Online] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams visited the site of a former Walgreens drugstore in the lower Ninth Ward September 20 to bless what will become the new home of the Church of All Souls, founded in New Orleans' lower Ninth after Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing flood devastated the neighborhood.
Image galleries from the House of Bishops meeting are available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_27365_ENG_HTM.htm
An related article is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90220_ENG_HTM.htm
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Image Gallery: House of Bishops September 21 news conference
[Episcopal Life Online] An image gallery of the House of Bishops September 21 news conference shows Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, bishops Duncan Gray III of Mississippi, Charles Jenkins of Louisiana, and Bishop Suffragan Catherine Roskam of New York addressing the media.
Image galleries from the House of Bishops meeting are available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_27365_ENG_HTM.htm
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OPINION
Getting beyond slogans and scapegoats
By Tom Ehrich
[Religion News Service] Thanks to a judge in Iowa, Christmas came early for our politicians.
The county judge struck down a state law banning same-gender marriage. Politicians rushed into that breach, condemning the judge's action or distancing themselves from it, hoping to please the religious right.
They were also hoping to find an issue -- any issue -- that would divert attention from a disastrous war, a dangerously weakening economy, government invasions of privacy, corruption in high places, and human rights abuses.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_90244_ENG_HTM.htm
More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm