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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 1, 2008

Episcopal Life Online is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* EDUCATION - Barbara Brown Taylor, J. Philip Newell to lead Advent  Retreat
at Kanuga
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: In Iowa, Episcopal flood relief efforts take many
forms
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Province VI Synod
* FEATURE - 'Hairy' testimony leads to bald truth
* DAYBOOK - July 2, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Justin Martyr and His Worlds

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>EDUCATION

Barbara Brown Taylor, J. Philip Newell to lead Advent Retreat at Kanuga

[Kanuga] Renowned authors Barbara Brown Taylor and J. Philip Newell will
explore "A New Birthing of Christ for Today" when they lead the December
7-11 Advent Retreat at Kanuga Conferences.

Their talks will focus on rediscovering ancient ways of devoting oneself  to
Christ.

Taylor is an Episcopal priest, religion professor and author of 11  books,
including "When God is Silent," "Home By Another Way" and her latest,
"Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith." Ordained in 1984, she spent 15  years in
parish ministry before becoming a full-time teacher.

Newell is a poet, author and teacher who has earned international  acclaim
for helping to recover traditions of Celtic spirituality. Formerly  warden of
Iona Abbey in the Western Isles of Scotland, he is a writer theologian  for
the Scottish Cathedral of the Isles as well as a companion theologian  for
the American Spirituality Centre of Casa del Sol in New Mexico.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_98474_ENG_HTM.htm

More Education: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80263_93222_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: In Iowa, Episcopal flood relief efforts take many forms

[Episcopal Life Media] Iowa Bishop Alan Scarfe speaks about the state's
worst flooding in 15 years and how Episcopalians are banding together to
provide a variety of services to victims and those cleaning up the mess  left
by what is being termed "Iowa's Katrina."

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Video: Province VI Synod

[Episcopal Life Media] Lydia Kelsey, youth missioner for the Diocese of
Iowa, and Bronwyn Clark Skov, canon missioner for the Diocese of  Minnesota,
speak about the Province VI Synod when delegates gathered June 12-14 to
share stories of vitality, both as a way to discover new strength for
mission and to approach decision-making in a new way.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

An earlier ENS story about the Province VI Synod is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_97974_ENG_HTM.htm

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>FEATURES

>'Hairy' testimony leads to bald truth

Danville priest shaves head, raises $10,000 to fight children's cancer

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Steven Strane offered a "hairy"  witness to
his St. Timothy's, Danville congregation, by boycotting the barbershop
during his three months sabbatical.

But then the effort grew -- and grew -- until lopping off a year's worth  and
an estimated 10 inches of locks translated into bald testimony to having  fun
while doing good. The San Francisco Bay area congregation raised $10,000  to
combat children's cancer by shaving Strane's head.

"I decided when I started my sabbatical last summer that I wouldn't cut  my
hair as a way of marking that time had passed," chuckled Strane, 58,  rector
of the Danville church for 20 years. "It really took on a life of its  own."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_98479_ENG_HTM.htm

More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 2, 2008...

* 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 July 2, 1489, Book of Common Prayer author and
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was born at Aslockton,
Nottinghamshire.

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>CATALYST

"Justin Martyr and His Worlds" from Augsburg Fortress, edited by Sara  Parvis
and Paul Foster, 256 pages, hardcover, c. 2007, $35

[Augsburg Fortress] Justin Martyr and His Worlds presents a solid,
state-of-the-art study of the great apologist, teacher, and martyr and  his
influential engagement with Gnostic Christianity, Judaism, and the Roman
Empire. Ideal as a text in upper-level and graduate courses.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit your
local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org

More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm