Episcopal Life Online Newslink November 14, 2007
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.
Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - In China, Presiding Bishop meets with Bishop Ting, Nanjing seminary students * TOP STORY - Native American, inter-Anglican partnerships featured in November 'Episcopal Life Focus' * DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: St. John's Church named as cathedral for diocese * WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Churches warn against alliance of religion and politics * SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 28) - Year C [RCL]
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TOP STORIES
In China, Presiding Bishop meets with Bishop Ting, Nanjing seminary students
By Neva Rae Fox
[Episcopal News Service] Bishop K. H. Ting, an Anglican-ordained bishop whose impact on the church in China is far-reaching, hosted Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in his Nanjing home on Wednesday, November 13 during her visit to China.
Ting, a gracious and warm host, said, "It is great to have the opportunity to welcome you to China."
"It is a great honor for me and all of us to be here," Jefferts Schori replied.
At age 92, Ting is physically frail and uses a wheelchair, but his knowledge and spirituality were evident in his wise, aged and halting voice. His eyes sparkled as he told Jefferts Schori of his joy in meeting the first woman Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_91891_ENG_HTM.htm
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Native American, inter-Anglican partnerships featured in November 'Episcopal Life Focus' New video multicast to air November 15
[Episcopal News Service] The November edition of "Episcopal Life Focus" -- a half-hour video "multicast" featuring church mission, ministries and news -- will be posted for online viewing November 15 by 8 p.m. Eastern time.
The program will remain available for on-demand viewing at Episcopal Life Online.
In observance of Native American Indian Heritage Month, the program will feature coverage of the New Jamestown Covenant Summit in Williamsburg, Virginia, which marks the beginning of the Episcopal Church's second Decade of Remembrance, Recognition, and Reconciliation (2007-2017) with the First Nations of the Americas, according to a resolution adopted by the 75th General Convention.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_91890_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
LOS ANGELES: St. John's Church named as cathedral for diocese http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_91893_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
KENYA: Churches warn against alliance of religion and politics http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_91874_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS
Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 28) - Year C [RCL] Isaiah 65:17-25 or Malachi 4:1-2a; Isaiah 12 or Psalm 98; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19
By Ken Kesselus
[Sermons That Work] It is hard to hear today's epistle without recalling Aesop's fable about the grasshopper and the ants. Thinking about the fun-loving grasshopper who showed up at the hard-working ants' door, cold and starving during a winter storm, seeking food and shelter, it's easy to imagine what the ant doorkeeper had to say. Maybe something like: "Anyone unwilling to work should not eat."
It would be easy to consider this a very appropriate answer. It would sound about right if we were to imagine ourselves as parent ants seeking to protect our innocent baby ants from the irresponsible grasshopper who might eat the precious food we had saved for our little ones. Anyone unwilling to work should not eat - especially the able-bodied but lazy among us. This is a natural opinion.
Engaged in Christian worship, however, we might consider that such a view clearly seems more in keeping with the realities of modern politics than with the teachings of the church. Yet, of course, we realize that the response made by the ants to the grasshopper is nearly an exact quotation from today's Epistle reading.
Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_91828_ENG_HTM.htm
More Spiritual Reflections: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm