Episcopal Life Online Daybook -- Today is Thursday, November 1, 2007. The Church calendar remembers All Saints' Day.
* 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 1993, Mary Adelia Mcleod was consecrated bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont. Mcleod is the first woman elected to serve as head of a diocese in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
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PEOPLE
Elizabeth Beach-Hacking named United Thank Offering coordinator http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_91408_ENG_HTM.htm
Fadi Diab, Anglican Palestinian priest, to speak at Seabury-Western http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_91470_ENG_HTM.htm
Nathan D. Baxter named preacher for 2008 Absalom Jones Service in Miami http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_91474_ENG_HTM.htm
More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm
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Catalyst: "A Church for the Future: South Africa as the Crucible for Anglicanism in a New Century" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Harold T. Lewis, foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 161 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $18
[Source: Church Publishing, Inc.] This book examines current issues facing the Anglican Communion through the prism of the history of the Southern African church and people. Through this combined narrative of the global and local church, the author offers a remarkable story combining history, race, class and culture in Africa. Lewis traces the paradigm shift in Anglicanism as its vitality moves beyond the borders of England and America to the global South, with all the theological implications. Today, South African Anglicanism attempts a middle way through crucial issues like HIV/AIDS, poverty, and human sexuality. This volume is ideal for those interested in "inculturation" -- the intersection of church, culture, and ethnicity.
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