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>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 7, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Episcopal Church website redesign aims to ease navigation 
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of York calls for church to reach
out on knife crime
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: USPG conference delegates back Archbishop
Williams
* MISSION - Prayers requested for Lifting Women's Voices: Ending Poverty
through Prayer and Action
* PEOPLE - Steven Frank Bailey set to leave Episcopal Church Center
after 20 years
* PEOPLE - Frank Chun of Hawai'i to celebrate 40 years of service
* FEATURE - Icon of healing: unique charism awaits bishops in Canterbury
* ARTS - Diaries shed light on a reluctant saint
* DAYBOOK - July 8, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Crossing: Reclaiming the Landscape of Our Lives, 2nd
Edition

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>TOP STORIES

Episcopal Church website redesign aims to ease navigation

>By Daphne Mack

[Episcopal News Service] Easier navigation, better search functionality,
and a more modern style are a few of the changes visitors will see upon
entering the newly redesigned Episcopal Church website.

To be launched on July 8, episcopalchurch.org highlights the four
Mission Centers that now encapsulates the staff of the Episcopal Church
Center as they continue to achieve new levels of service and
collaboration. 

"With the change to the organizational structure here at the Church
Center we felt that the website needed to reflect that," said Michael
Collins, director of Digital Communication. "We've changed the entire
look and feel of the home page and we've also created new pages for each
of the four mission centers including their areas of mission and their
staff."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_98692_ENG_HTM.htm

More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop of York calls for church to reach out on knife crime
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_98624_ENG_HTM.htm

ENGLAND: USPG conference delegates back Archbishop Williams
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_98694_ENG_HTM.htm

More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

Steven Frank Bailey set to leave Episcopal Church Center after 20 years

>By Daphne Mack

[Episcopal News Service] After two decades of what can only be described
as a life of service, Steven Frank Bailey retires July 7 from the
Episcopal Church Center in New York City.

"It has been enlightening, educational, and a privilege to work here,"
he said.

Bailey's career at the Church Center, located at 815 Second Avenue in
Manhattan, will end in the office where it began -- United Thank
Offering (UTO). Hired as a temp in December 1987, Bailey said he watched
his responsibilities with UTO grow from reading newspapers and answering
telephones to being hired full-time and learning about databases and
merging programs.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_98642_ENG_HTM.htm

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Frank Chun of Hawai'i to celebrate 40 years of service

[ENS] The Rev. Canon Frank Chun will celebrate 40 years of service in
the Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i with an August 9 luau at 'Iolani School
Student Center.

Chun, who chairs the diocesan Commission on Ministry, was ordained a
priest in 1968 and has held many posts within the diocese, including
rector of St. Peter's Church and director of Camp Mokule'ia. He also
helped translate the New Testament of the Bible in to "Da Jesus Book"
which is a Hawai'i English Creole (Pidgin) version of the text
translated from Greek.

A 1960 graduate of Roosevelt High School, Chun holds a degree in
psychology from the University of Hawai'i and is married to his college
sweetheart, Norma. The Chuns have three children and two grandchildren.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_98695_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MISSION

Prayers requested for Lifting Women's Voices: Ending Poverty through
Prayer and Action

[Episcopal News Service] Morehouse Publishing, an imprint of Church
Publishing Incorporated, has launched a campaign urging women to "say a
prayer, change the world" by submitting prayers for possible inclusion
in the upcoming publication, Lifting Women's Voices: Ending Poverty
through Prayer and Action. 

According to Morehouse, the book "will reveal how Anglican women
worldwide are deeply connected by global issues, even across cultural
and economic divides -- and affirm that nurturing our inner lives of
prayer offers us the courage to care and advocate not just for
ourselves, but for our sisters throughout the Anglican Communion."

Submissions are due September 15, and prayers should be emailed to
prayers@cpg.org.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_98647_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>FEATURES

Icon of healing: unique charism awaits bishops in Canterbury

[Episcopal Life] For centuries, pilgrims have come to Canterbury in
search of healing. 

They have knelt at the shrine of St. Thomas Becket, archbishop martyred
inside the cathedral in 1170. Some early visitors, tossing crutches
aside, reported maladies miraculously cured on site; others brought gold
and jewels in tribute. Many journeyed from afar on horseback at a pace
termed "cantering," their treks lending archetypes for Chaucer's fabled
Tales.

Through time, prayers at Canterbury have also turned to world peace,
notably during World War II when the German Luftwaffe bombed the
vicinity in June 1942. Topsoil was layered inside the cathedral's nave,
and stained glass removed, to guard against damage. Candles still burn
daily as signs of intention to end warfare and mend strife of all kinds.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_98657_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

>Diaries shed light on a reluctant saint

>By Jerry Hames and Daniel Burke

[Episcopal Life] Those who have been inspired by the work of Dorothy
Day, founder of Catholic Worker Houses of Hospitality, farming communes
and retreat centers, now know more about her intimate, spiritual
thoughts from her personal journals which were published last month. 

The Sermon on the Mount characterized all of her work, finding
expression in her practice of nonviolence and solidarity with workers
and the poor. For Dorothy Day, to be a Christian meant not only
participating fervently in prayer and liturgy, but also finding Christ
in others. 

She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1897, the third child of Grace
and John Day. When her family moved to Chicago, she was baptized in the
Episcopal Church. At the University of Illinois at Urbana, she became
interested in radical social causes as a way to help workers and the
poor. In 1916, she left the university and moved to New York City where
she converted to Roman Catholicism, worked as a journalist on socialist
newspapers, participated in protest movements and developed friendships
with many famous artists and writers. She died in 1980.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_98660_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 8, 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 8, 1829, the Diocese of Kentucky held its
first convention at Christ Church, Lexington.

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>CATALYST

"Crossing: Reclaiming the Landscape of Our Lives, 2nd Edition" from
Church Publishing, Inc., by Mark Barrett, 120 pages, paperback, c. 2008,
$16

[Church Publishing, Inc.] This book illuminates the spiritual journey we
all take and the choices we make by focusing on five of the monastic
hours: from Vigils which reflect on the edges of the day and our own
difficulty in choosing to begin the journey, through Compline or night
prayer, the time for letting go and remembering the reality of death.
Full of humor and eloquently written, Crossing shows Christians how to
bring faith and human experience together. 

"This beautiful book on the Benedictine tradition of prayer presents the
daily office as a regular cycle of birth and death. The pre-dawn office
of vigils, for which monks stumble to find their places in the dark,
represents both the miracle of resurrection and the mundane reality that
fixed-hour prayer is work. Mark Barrett prays that he might "want to
want to pray," acknowledging that at some core part of his being he does
not want God in his life at all, particularly before dawn. The rest of
the book is peppered with the same frankness and theological insight."
-- Publishers Weekly

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