Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Friday, September 28, 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 1988, Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York City served its millionth meal.
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MULTIMEDIA
Pakistan Moderator Alexander John Malik
[Episcopal Life Online] Bishop Alexander John Malik of Lahore, Moderator of the Church of Pakistan, brings a message of peace and reconciliation in light of ongoing challenges faced by Christians, who are a minority in Pakistan.
The Church of Pakistan, which has about 800,000 members, is a united church inaugurated in 1970, bringing together Anglicans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans and other Protestants. The Church of Pakistan is one of the 38 Provinces of the Anglican Communion and Malik serves as its Primate.
A video stream of Malik's interview is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "Amazing Grace: William Wiberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery" from HarperCollins Publishers, by Eric Metaxas, 281 pages, hardcover, c. 2007, $21.95
[Source: HarperCollins Publishers] Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.
At the center of this heroic life was a passionate 20-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a victory achieved just three days before his death in 1833. Metaxas discovers in this unsung hero a man of whom it can truly be said: he changed the world. Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was wrong. After Wilberforce, most societies in the world came to see it as a great moral wrong. This account of Wilberforce's life will help many become acquainted with an exceptional man who was a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America.
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