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>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 17, 2008

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Lambeth spouses eager to build relationships, partner with
bishops
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Lexington Bishop Stacy  Sauls
* TOP STORY - Archbishop of Canterbury opens the 2008 Lambeth Conference
* TOP STORY - Pre-Lambeth Conference Hospitality Initiative 'sets  positive
tone' for bishops and spouses
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Lexington Bishop Stacy Sauls on the Lambeth  Conference
retreat
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Lambeth Spouses Conference opens in Canterbury;
bishops begin retreat
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Pre-Lambeth Conference Hospitality Initiative:
Assisting Bishop William Gregg of North Carolina
* MULTIMEDIA - Image Gallery: Lambeth Conference bishops retreat;  spouses
begin to meet
* PEOPLE - Rhoda Hackler, Hawai'i historian and author, dies at 84
* FEATURE - Women bishops will help shift focus to life-and-death issues
* DAYBOOK - July 18, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Protestant Reformation

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>TOP STORIES

Lambeth spouses eager to build relationships, partner with bishops

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Dressed in saris, capri pants,
dashikis, polo and sports shirts, some even sporting elaborate tattoos,
nearly 550 wives and husbands of Anglican Communion bishops gathered  July 17
for the opening session of the Lambeth Spouses' Conference.

As the participants filed into a sports hall at the University of Kent  in
Canterbury, England, the other group of spouses -- the bishops -- left  for
Canterbury Cathedral to begin a retreat led by Archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams in advance of the formal start of the decennial Lambeth
Conference.

"I think what is going to be very helpful is the fact that the bishops  are
on retreat for the first two and a half days which will allow them to  focus
on the real mission of the conference in a way that can be helpful not  only
to them but to the spouses as well," said Larry Waynick, husband of  Diocese
of Indianapolis Bishop Catherine Waynick.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99046_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Lexington Bishop Stacy Sauls

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Bishop Stacy Sauls of the Diocese  of
Lexington, Kentucky, offers the following Daily Account as the bishops
attending the 2008 Lambeth Conference concluded their first day of  retreat
July 17 in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral.

Daily Account: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99077_ENG_HTM.htm

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Archbishop of Canterbury opens the 2008 Lambeth Conference

[ACNS] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams opened the 2008 Lambeth
Conference to the sounds of South African Alleluias and prayers for the
guidance of the Holy Spirit. He spoke to the gathering of Anglican  bishops
from around the world addressing the first plenary session of the  Lambeth
Conference July 16. He stressed that the conference had a very strong
emphasis on drawing together around the Bible and had been designed as a
place "in which every voice can be heard and in which we build Christian
relationship."

Williams said that his own prayer and hopes for the conference "is not  that
after two weeks we will find a solution to all our problems but we shall  as
I have written more than once in some sense find the trust in God and  one
another that will give us the energy to change in the way God wants us  to
change. That is the most important thing we can pray for, the energy to
change as God wants us to change individually and as a Communion."

Some bishops have chosen to stay away although only the Anglican Church  of
Uganda has no bishops present. "I think it's important I should say that
it's a great grief that many of our brothers and sisters in the  Communion
have not felt able to be with us for these weeks, a grief because we  need
their voice and they need ours in learning Christ together," he said.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99074_ENG_HTM.htm

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Pre-Lambeth Conference Hospitality Initiative 'sets positive tone' for
bishops and spouses

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] The Anglican provinces of England,
Scotland and Wales laid on some British hospitality July 10-15 for some  of
the bishops and spouses making their way to Canterbury for the decennial
Lambeth Conference.

The pre-Lambeth Conference Hospitality Initiative enabled bishops and
diocesan clergy throughout Britain "to have some informal conversations,  to
get to know each other, and it set a very positive tone," said Assisting
Bishop William Gregg of North Carolina.

Gregg, who was visiting the Diocese of Swansea in the Church of Wales,  said
that the bishops who participated in the initiative have arrived at the  July
16-August 3 Lambeth Conference in southeast England "in a more  constructive
mode and with a better sense of articulating who we are and making the  point
that we're about partnering for mission and ministry."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99073_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Lexington Bishop Stacy Sauls on the Lambeth Conference retreat

[Episcopal News Service] As Anglican bishops begin meeting for the 2008
Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, Bishop Stacy Sauls of the Diocese of
Lexington, Kentucky, offers an overview of the first day of retreat July  17
in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral.

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

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Video: Lambeth Spouses Conference opens in Canterbury; bishops begin  retreat

[Episcopal News Service] As the bishops attending the 2008 Lambeth
Conference began a three-day retreat July 17 in the precincts of  Canterbury
Cathedral, their bishops and wives met for the first day of the Spouses
Conference at the University of Kent.

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

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Video: Pre-Lambeth Conference Hospitality Initiative: Assisting Bishop
William Gregg of North Carolina

[Episcopal News Service] Assisting Bishop William Gregg of North  Carolina
speaks about the pre-Lambeth Conference Hospitality Initiative July  10-15,
when bishops and spouses visited dioceses throughout England, Scotland  and
Wales.

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

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Image Gallery: Lambeth Conference bishops retreat; spouses begin to meet

[Episcopal News Service] An image gallery of the bishops and their  spouses
attending the 2008 Lambeth Conference and Spouses Conference in  Canterbury,
England, is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81991_99045_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Rhoda Hackler, Hawai'i historian and author, dies at 84

[Episcopal News Service] Rhoda Elizabeth Armstrong Hackler, Ph.D.,
historian, researcher, writer, and teacher in Hawai'i for 43 years, died  on
July 7. She was 84.

Hackler was a lecturer in Hawai'ian history at the University of Hawai'i  at
Manoa and a prolific writer on historical subjects, including Hawai'ian
history and culture, Asian art and the Episcopal Church in Hawaii.

An active member of Church of the Holy Nativity and later of St.  Clement's
Church, both in Honolulu, Hackler served on vestries, Diocesan Council,  and
various boards and commissions in the Diocese of Hawai'i.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_99050_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>FEATURES

Women bishops will help shift focus to life-and-death issues

>By Catherine S. Roskam

[Episcopal Life] The 1998 Lambeth Conference was the first ever to  include
women bishops in its number. It was also the first
Lambeth to include suffragan bishops and assistant bishops as well as
diocesan bishops, thereby increasing the number of bishops overall to  around
850 and allowing all 11 of the women bishops in the Anglican Communion  to
attend, instead of just the six who were diocesans.

To people moving around the campus at the University of Kent, where the
conference is held, the disparity in numbers was not so evident. Most
bishops were accompanied by their spouses and, since dress was casual,  it
was not always easy to determine who was a
bishop and who was not, so the gender mix was about even.

It was rumored that some male bishops would cross the street if they saw  a
woman bishop coming toward them. If that ever happened, it would have  been
impossible to tell -- with so many people going in different directions  --
who was crossing in protest and who, like the chicken in the ancient  joke,
simply wanted to get to the other side.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_99083_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 18, 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 Prayer for Lambeth:

Watch over all those bishops who for reasons of health, finance,  conscience
or domestic concerns cannot attend the Lambeth Conference, that they may
join their fellow bishops in shared love.

* Today in History: On July 18, 1323, Italian philosopher and Dominican
theologian Thomas Aquinas was canonized.

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>CATALYST

"The Protestant Reformation" from HarperCollins Publishers, edited by  Hans
J. Hillerbrand, 290 pages, paperback, c. 1968, $15.95

[HarperCollins Publishers] "Many basic questions surround the  Reformation.
What were its causes? Was it precipitated by the Zeitgeist prevailing in
Europe, so that there would have been a religious upheaval even if  Luther or
Zwingli had died in their cradles? Was the Reformation an authentically
religious phenomenon, or the result of certain political, social, or
economic developments? Was it 'medievil' or 'modern' in its orientation?
What was the teaching of the Reformers? What was the significance of the
Reformation? The measure of scholarly agreement with respect to these
questions differs; far from offering definitive answers, we can here  only
call attention to their persistent presence.

"When the reformers who had first ventured a new interpretation of the
gospel had passed from the scene, the question which had haunted the
Reformation from its very inception -- where is truth? -- was still
contested by the proponents of the old and the new faith. But one fact  was
beyond dispute: Western Christendom was tragically divided...into no  less
than five [religious factions]...Though these divisions were the result  of
intense religious conviction, they could not help but lessen the  intensity
of religious belief in Europe. The Reformation of the sixteenth century  was
the last period in the history of Western civilization when men were
preoccupied with religion, argued it, fought and even died for it. Its
consequences are still with us." -- Hans J. Hillerbrand

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