Episcopal Life Online Newslink October 5, 2007
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.
Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* WORLD REPORT - AFRICA: ERD responds following severe flooding in Ghana and Uganda * WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: Archbishop of Canterbury visits Armenia, Syria and Lebanon * WORLD REPORT - PHILIPPINES: Church urges independent probe of bishop's murder * ARTS - Backup singer shares Elvis' more tender Gospel side in new book
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WORLD REPORT
AFRICA: ERD responds following severe flooding in Ghana and Uganda http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90781_ENG_HTM.htm
MIDDLE EAST: Archbishop of Canterbury visits Armenia, Syria and Lebanon http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90743_ENG_HTM.htm
PHILIPPINES: church urges independent probe of bishop's murder http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_90747_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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ARTS
Backup singer shares Elvis' more tender Gospel side in new book
By Michelle C Rindels
[Religion News Service] If the King of Rock 'n' Roll is known for anything, it might be the gyrating hips, the troubling addictions and the kitsch of Graceland.
But the Elvis Presley remembered by Joe Moscheo, a gospel singer who sang backup vocals for Presley as a member of the Imperials, was a deeply spiritual man who would leave screaming fans, retreat to his hotel suite and croon old hymns until dawn.
"When he left the building," Moscheo writes in his forthcoming book, The Gospel Side of Elvis, "most nights, Elvis wanted nothing more than to go somewhere with a few friends and a piano, a place they could gather to sing and listen to the gospel music that nourished the heart and soul of this American musical and cultural icon."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_90779_ENG_HTM.htm
More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm