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>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 10, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Church Center Midwest regional office up and running
* TOP STORY - Episcopalians can join bishops' Walk of Witness --
virtually
* TOP STORY - Listening Process book now available to U.S. readers
* TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop schedules post-Lambeth live webcast
* TOP STORY - Gospel of John's 'I am' verses focus of July 27, August 3
bulletin inserts
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Parish wants court-appointed monitor to
oversee possession, use of diocesan property
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop supports calls for end to detention
of children seeking asylum
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Homosexuality debate is not main agenda for
African churches, Botswana bishop tells conference
* WORLD REPORT - EUROPE: Norway's Lutherans praise Church of England on
women bishops decision
* WORLD REPORT - EUROPE: Catholic, Orthodox warn Church of England on
women bishops decision
* WORLD REPORT - HONG KONG: Anglican primate criticizes GAFCON
conference
* WORLD REPORT - SRI LANKA: Bishop denounces attacks on media
* MISSION - Service is the mantra for youth at Union of Black
Episcopalians conference
* PEOPLE - John Marks Templeton, American born investor and
philanthropist, dies at 95
* FEATURE - Lambeth spouses will listen to each others' stories, develop
personal skills
* OPINION - G8 Summit 2008: All talk, zero walk
* DAYBOOK - July 11, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

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>TOP STORIES

Church Center Midwest regional office up and running

[Episcopal News Service] The work of the Episcopal Church Center's
Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations office and parts of its ministry in
congregational life are now operating in the Diocese of Nebraska's
(http://www.episcopal-ne.org/default.aspx) offices adjacent to Trinity
Cathedral in Omaha.

Bishop Christopher Epting, the Presiding Bishop's deputy for ecumenical
and interreligious relations, and Tom Ferguson, associate deputy,
recently spent time in the Omaha regional office, meeting with diocesan
staff, ecumenical partners at the headquarters of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America's Nebraska Synod, and a tri-faith group of
Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Preaching at Trinity Cathedral on the text "whoever welcomes you
welcomes me" (Matthew 10:40), Epting acknowledged that ecumenical and
interfaith ministry is "all about hospitality" and that the Diocese of
Nebraska is "fulfilling that mandate to the fullest" by welcoming the
Church Center's regional office into Province VI and the Midwest.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_98818_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopalians can join bishops' Walk of Witness -- virtually

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] When Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
and more than 600 Anglican bishops, their spouses and other faith
leaders from around the United Kingdom march through central London July
24, Episcopalians back home can "march" with them. 

The Lambeth Conference's Walk of Witness is intended as a high-profile
symbol of commitment to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) -- eight promises made by world leaders to halve global poverty
by 2015.

The bishops will walk through the heart of London, including Parliament
Square and will also commit to putting more pressure on their respective
governments to ensure that funding promises are met, and the right
policies put in place, to make a difference to local communities across
the world. The event will culminate in a rally in the grounds of Lambeth
Palace, the London home and office of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_98802_ENG_HTM.htm

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Listening Process book now available to U.S. readers

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] "The Anglican Communion and Homosexuality -- A
resource to enable listening and dialogue" is now available for sale in
the United States.

The 300-page book draws on material collected to enable the ongoing
process of "listening to the experience of homosexual persons," to which
the bishops of the Anglican Communion committed themselves at the 1998
Lambeth Conference by way of Resolution 1.10.

The Anglican Consultative Council endorsed the Listening Process during
its 2005 meeting (via Resolution 12) and also called for a process of
mutual listening.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_98799_ENG_HTM.htm

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Presiding Bishop schedules post-Lambeth live webcast

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will
conduct a live webcast to talk about the Lambeth Conference on Thursday,
August 7 at 2 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. Central, noon Mountain, 11 a.m.
Pacific).

The Lambeth Conference, a once-every-decade gathering of Anglican
bishops, will be held July 16-August 3 at the University of Kent in
Canterbury, England.

The live webcast will originate from the Chapel of Christ the Lord at
the Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York City.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_98797_ENG_HTM.htm

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Gospel of John's 'I am' verses focus of July 27, August 3 bulletin
inserts

[Episcopal Life Weekly] Bulletin inserts for July 27 and August 3
contain a set of two meditations on the "I am" verses of the Gospel of
John, the same verses being studied by bishops and their spouses at the
Lambeth Conference. The reflections were written by the Very Rev.
Michael Battle, a Lambeth Conference chaplain and former chaplain to the
House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church. 

Bulletin inserts are available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PITTSBURGH: Parish wants court-appointed monitor to oversee possession,
use of diocesan property
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_98805_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop supports calls for end to detention of children
seeking asylum
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_98812_ENG_HTM.htm

ENGLAND: Homosexuality debate is not main agenda for African churches,
Botswana bishop tells conference
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_98816_ENG_HTM.htm

EUROPE: Norway's Lutherans praise Church of England on women bishops
decision
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_98806_ENG_HTM.htm

EUROPE: Catholic, Orthodox warn Church of England on women bishops
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_98813_ENG_HTM.htm

HONG KONG: Anglican primate criticizes GAFCON conference
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_98814_ENG_HTM.htm

SRI LANKA: Bishop denounces attacks on media

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_98810_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Service is the mantra for youth at Union of Black Episcopalians
conference

>By Daphne Mack

[Episcopal News Service] This year's conference and meeting of the Union
of Black Episcopalians (http://www.ube.org) (UBE) found the youth
participants not only engaged in strengthening their faith, but in being
of service to others.

More than 40 youth, aged 13-21, gathered June 29-July 3 at the Crown
Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey to celebrate and make their
voices heard at the 40th anniversary of the intergenerational assemblage
which acknowledges the lives, contributions and sacrifices of people of
color.

According to Gina Houston, UBE's national youth advisor, the youth have
always played an integral role in all aspects of the conference,
including leading and planning a youth Eucharist service, but this year
they had opportunities to participate in community service with Habitat
for Humanity (http://www.habitatphiladelphia.org) and Church of the
Advocate (http://www.churchoftheadvocate.org) in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_98817_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

John Marks Templeton, American born investor and philanthropist, dies at
95

[Episcopal News Service] Sir John Marks Templeton, American born
investor and philanthropist, died July 8 at Doctors Hospital, Nassau,
Bahamas, of pneumonia. He was 95. A naturalized British citizen,
Templeton had lived in the Bahamas for many years. 

As a young man Templeton studied at Yale and Oxford and began his career
in finance on Wall Street during the Great Depression, moving on to a
friend's oil company in Texas, and eventually being identified by Money
magazine as "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century."

A Presbyterian with an interest in all religions, Templeton was perhaps
best known for the prize that bears his name. Its first recipient in
1973 was Mother Theresa of Calcutta. Since 1999, all the Templeton
laureates have been leaders in the field of science and theology,
including Anglican priests the Rev. Arthur Peacocke and the Rev. John
Polkinghorne.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_98803_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>FEATURES

Lambeth spouses will listen to each others' stories, develop personal
skills

[Episcopal Life] The Lambeth Spouses Conference, which will run
concurrently with the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Bishops, will not be a
women's tea party, said Jane Williams, whose husband is the Archbishop
of Canterbury.

For one thing, continuing a trend begun at the 1998 conference, a small
number of husbands will be among the spouses. The 1998 conference marked
the first time that the Anglican Communion included female bishops, the
first being Barbara Harris, who was consecrated in 1989 as a bishop
suffragan in the Diocese of Massachusetts.

Overall, the two main aims of the 2008 Spouses Conference will be "to
learn from each other and to resource ourselves to be God's people for
God's mission," Williams said during an announcement of the program.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_98822_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>G8 Summit 2008: All talk, zero walk

>By Njongonkulu Ndungane

[Episcopal Life] Editor's note: Now in its 34th year, the G8 summit, a
forum which brings together the heads of the richest industrialized
countries, was held July 7-9 in Toyako on the northern island of
Hokkaido, Japan. Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, former Anglican
Archbishop of Cape Town and president and founder of African Monitor,
offers the following commentary.

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The Group of Eight (G8) summit has come and like other previous summits
gone. A lot of anticipation preceded this year's summit against a
backdrop of an escalation of the usual problems and new challenges
bedeviling the world, particularly the African continent.

Today, our world communities are confronting the worst food crisis in 45
years. Food prices have tripled in the last three years. The World Bank
estimates that 100 million people are falling deeper into poverty as
prices for basic staples that feed the world, i.e. wheat, rice, and
corn, have risen by a staggering 83%. With the existing challenges that
Africa has always been facing without these new crises, it is clear that
our continent is disproportionately affected.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_98798_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On July 11, 2008, the Church calendar remembers Benedict of Nursia,
abbot of Monte Cassino (480-540).

* 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 11, 1533, Pope Clement VII excommunicates
England's King Henry VIII for remarrying after his divorce.

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>CATALYST

"Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet" from the Penguin Press,
by Jeffrey D. Sachs, 386 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $27.95

[The Penguin Press] The central theme of Jeffrey Sachs's new book is
that we need a new economic paradigm -- global, inclusive, cooperative,
environmentally aware, science based -- because we are running up
against the realities of a crowded planet. The alternative is a
worldwide economic collapse of unprecedented severity. Prosperity will
have to be sustained through more cooperative processes, relying as much
on public policy as on market forces to spread technology, address the
needs of the poor, and to husband threatened resources of water, air,
energy, land, and biodiversity. The "soft issues" of the environment,
public health, and population will become the hard issues of
geopolitics. New forms of global politics will in important ways replace
capital-city-dominated national diplomacy and intrigue. National
governments, even the United States, will become much weaker actors as
scientific networks and socially responsible investors and foundations
become the more powerful actors. 

If we do the right things, there is room for all on the planet. We can
achieve the four key goals of a global society: prosperity for all, the
end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and
environmental sustainability. These are not utopian goals or pipe
dreams, yet they are far from automatic. Indeed, we are not on a
successful trajectory now to achieve these goals. Common Wealth points
the way to the course correction we must embrace for the sake of our
common future. 

"Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world
faces. We can address poverty, climate change, and environmental
destruction at a very modest cost today with huge benefits for shared
and sustainable prosperity and peace in the future, or we can duck the
issues today and risk a potentially costly reckoning in later years.
Despite the rearguard opposition of some vested interests, policies to
help the world's poor and the global environment are in fact the vest
best economic bargains on the planet." -- Al Gore, winner of the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United States

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm