Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Friday, October 5, 2007.
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Colombia Bishop Francisco Duque Gomez
[Episcopal Life Online] Colombia Bishop Francisco Duque Gomez, during a recent visit to the Episcopal Church Center in New York City, discussed, in Spanish, the life and ministry of the Diocese of Colombia, one of the seven dioceses in the Episcopal Church's Province IX.
Colombia is about twice the size of Texas and Duque's goal is to plant churches in all of the country's 32 provinces, "not only as a sacramental presence, but with strong outreach programs."
"Colombia is a nation with long-standing internal conflicts that over time have caused large internal displacements of populations," said Duque, who was elected bishop coadjutor in July 2001, and became diocesan bishop in May 2002. Land mines are a continuing deadly presence in many regions of Colombia, "and our church is striving to serve the many children that continue to be injured," he said. "We need to be supported in prayer, as our church actively works for a lasting and just peace."
A video stream of Duque's interview is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm
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El Obispo de Colombia Francisco Duque Gómez recientemente visitó el Centro Episcopal en la ciudad de Nueva York y se expresó sobre la vida y el ministerio de su diócesis, una de las siete que forman la IX Provincia de la Iglesia Episcopal.
En términos de superficie, Colombia es aproximadamente el doble del tamaño de Texas, pero Duque tiene como objetivo lograr la fundación de iglesias en cada una de las 32 provincias de Colombia "no sólo como una presencia sacramental, pero con programas sociales" robustos.
"Colombia es una nación que tiene y ha tenido muchos conflictos internos que han causado grandes desplazamientos de población," dijo Duque, quien fue electo obispo coadjutor en julio de 2001 y asumió el cargo de obispo diocesano en mayo de 2002. Las minas terrestres continúan siendo una presencia mortífera en muchas regiones de Colombia, y la iglesia "trata de servir a los niños que todavía siguen siendo heridos. Necesitamos ser apoyados en oración (...) pues trabajamos por una paz justa y duradera."
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible" from HarperCollins Publishers, by Adam Nicholson, 281 pages, paperback, c. 2005, $13.95
[Source: HarperCollins Publishers] A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between these polarities. This was the world that created the King James Bible. It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment "Englishness," specifically the English language itself, had come into its first passionate maturity. The English of Jacobean England has a more encompassing idea of its own scope than any form of the language before or since. It drips with potency and sensitivity. The age, with all its conflicts, explains the book.
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