Episcopal Life Online Newslink November 7, 2007
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* TOP STORY - Farm Bill reform urged in faith leaders' news conference, Episcopal bishops' ad * WORLD REPORT - CHINA: Anglican leaders praise religion decision by Chinese communists * WORLD REPORT - INDIAN OCEAN: Commemoration remembers Second World War victims at Diego Suarez Commonwealth War Graves * WORLD REPORT - Nine Primates echo calls for emergency meeting; Akinola defends incursions * SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 27) - Year C [RCL]
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TOP STORIES
Farm Bill reform urged in faith leaders' news conference, Episcopal bishops' ad
By Episcopal Life staff
[Episcopal News Service] As the United States Senate began floor debate on the nation's Farm Bill, Washington Bishop John Bryson Chane and five other faith leaders spoke at a news conference November 6 calling for Senators to pass a Farm Bill that creates a "new covenant" with rural America and people living in deadly poverty around the world.
Unveiled at the news conference was a new ad, signed by 26 Episcopal bishops, calling for the Senate to pass several key amendments to the Farm Bill designed to restore "the moral foundation" of a bill that was created by Congress in the 1930s as a "covenant" with rural America and people in need.
"Congress created the first Farm Bill to be an expression of the character of America and a covenant with farmers rooted in fairness, equity, and opportunity for all," said Chane. "Today's Farm Bill has strayed far from this vision, benefiting primarily large, rich farms while adding to the struggles of hard-working family farmers and exacerbating deadly poverty around the world."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_91692_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
CHINA: Anglican leaders praise religion decision by Chinese communists http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_91690_ENG_HTM.htm
INDIAN OCEAN: Commemoration remembers Second World War victims at Diego Suarez Commonwealth War Graves http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_91688_ENG_HTM.htm
Nine Primates echo calls for emergency meeting; Akinola defends incursions http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_91693_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS
Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 27) - Year C [RCL] Haggai 1:15b-2:9 or Job 19:23-27a; Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21 or 98 or 17:1-9; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17; Luke 20:27-38
By Frederic Guyott, III, November 11, 2007
[Sermons That Work] In today's gospel reading, the Sadducees, who did not believe in resurrection, confronted Jesus with the question of what life would be like if there truly was life after death. They wanted Him to assure them that the human laws, given by Moses, would also apply if there was life after death. In a powerful statement about the reality of the resurrected life, Jesus declared that it is absurd to compare physical life with the resurrected life:
"Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection."
Paul's letters to the church at Thessalonica were devoted to addressing the issue of how to wait for the return of Christ. In this passage from the second letter, Paul confirmed the wisdom given in the passage from Luke, assuring the people that in the resurrection the faithful would be united with Christ: "As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we beg you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed."
Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_91687_ENG_HTM.htm
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