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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 20, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference worship highlights diversity, conflict
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference structure meant for 'intense  engagement,'
planners say
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference Daily Account: San Diego Bishop James
Mathes and Western Massachusetts Bishop Gordon Scruton
* TOP STORY - Archbishop of Canterbury delivers Lambeth Conference
presidential address
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference welcomes ecumenical partners
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Colombo Bishop preaches at Lambeth Conference  opening
Eucharist
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Susan Russell preaches at Changing  Attitude/Integrity
service
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Lambeth Conference Daily Account
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Lambeth Conference welcomes ecumenical partners
* MULTIMEDIA - Image Gallery: July 20 Lambeth Conference Opening  Eucharist;
Changing Attitude/Integrity service
* MULTIMEDIA - Image Gallery: Lambeth Conference welcomes ecumenical
partners
* DAYBOOK - July 21, 2008: Today in Prayer for Lambeth

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>TOP STORIES

Lambeth Conference worship highlights diversity, conflict

Anglican pageantry on display at Canterbury Cathedral

>By Solange De Santis

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] More than 600 Anglican bishops
worshipped on July 20 within the ancient, sand-colored walls of  Canterbury
Cathedral in a two-hour Eucharist that illuminated the worldwide  church's
diversity and also acknowledged its current theological conflicts.

Bishop Duleep de Chickera, of Colombo, Sri Lanka, said in his sermon  that
the church must be "an inclusive communion for anyone and everyone,
regardless of color, gender, ability or sexual orientation," but he also
called for "discipline and self-scrutiny" since "Christ calls us to be  hard
on ourselves." 

With the late-morning sun streaming through three stories of clear and
stained-glass windows, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams led the
service at the enormous cathedral's high altar, not far from a plaque
listing his 103 predecessors, beginning with St. Augustine in 597.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99146_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth Conference structure meant for 'intense engagement,' planners  say

Conversation, Bible study, plenaries all meant to move conference away  from
debate

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Contrary to the opinion of some
observers, a spokesman for the 2008 Lambeth Conference said July 20 that  the
design of the gathering is not meant to avoid the conflict and  differences
in the Anglican Communion, but rather to engage them more intensely.

Archbishop Phillip Aspinall of Brisbane, the primate of Australia and
principal spokesman for the bishops, told a news briefing after the
conference's opening Eucharist that this conference "will feel a bit
different because it is not a debating chamber this time."

"Some people have taken that to mean that the program has been designed  to
avoid conflict," he said. "Now, let me tell you that the chances of  avoiding
conflict when you get 650 bishops together are pretty minimal and the
program designers are well aware of that. What the program designers  have
tried to do is to engage with the conflict in a quite different way."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99158_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth Conference Daily Account: San Diego Bishop James Mathes and  Western
Massachusetts Bishop Gordon Scruton

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] San Diego Bishop James Mathes and
Western Massachusetts Bishop Gordon Scruton offer the following Daily
Account for July 20.

Daily Account: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99151_ENG_HTM.htm

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Archbishop of Canterbury delivers Lambeth Conference presidential  address

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams  delivered
his presidential address July 20 during the first full plenary session  of
the Lambeth Conference.

During his address, which was closed to the media, Williams called for
reflection and a focus on strengthening the Anglican Communion.

The full text of his address is available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99149_ENG_HTM.htm.

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Lambeth Conference welcomes ecumenical partners

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan  Williams
welcomed as "sharers in our work together" about 70 Anglican Communion
ecumenical partners at a July 19 evening worship service in the 'big  top'
blue tent pitched on the grounds of the University of Kent in  Canterbury.

"We pray that you will show us something of the depths of God in what  you
have to share with us," Williams told the Lambeth Conference guests  while
preaching at the service, attended by about 900 bishops, spouses and  other
visitors.

"We pray you will provoke us further in that endless journey of love and
discovery towards the perfection that we never arrive at or master  because
there is always more of God's love in Jesus Christ to encounter,"  Williams
said. He promised additional guests throughout the July 16-August 3
conference, saying "this is not the entire spectrum of people we are
expecting to join us in these weeks."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99133_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Colombo Bishop preaches at Lambeth Conference opening Eucharist

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Duleep De Chickera, bishop of  Colombo
(Sri Lanka), preaches at the opening Eucharist of the 2008 Lambeth
Conference July 20 in Canterbury Cathedral.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_97371_ENG_HTM.htm

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Video: Susan Russell preaches at Changing Attitude/Integrity service

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Susan Russell, president of Integrity,
preaches July 20 in Canterbury for a service organized by Changing
Attitude/Integrity.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_97371_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth Conference Daily Account: San Diego Bishop James Mathes and  Western
Massachusetts Bishop Gordon Scruton

[Episcopal News Service] San Diego Bishop James Mathes and Western
Massachusetts Bishop Gordon Scruton offer the following Daily Account  for
July 20.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_97371_ENG_HTM.htm

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Video: Lambeth Conference welcomes ecumenical partners

[Episcopal News Service] More than 70 ecumenical visitors joined the  bishops
of the worldwide Anglican Communion July 19 as they were welcomed as  guests
at the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/89878_97371_ENG_HTM.htm

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Image Gallery: July 20 Lambeth Conference Opening Eucharist; Changing
Attitude/Integrity service

[Episcopal News Service] An image gallery of the Lambeth Conference  Openign
Eucharist and an afternoon service organized by Changing  Attitude/Integrity
is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81991_99135_ENG_HTM.htm

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Image Gallery: Lambeth Conference welcomes ecumenical partners

[Episcopal News Service] More than 70 ecumenical visitors joined the  bishops
of the worldwide Anglican Communion July 19 as they were welcomed as  guests
at the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

An image gallery of the ecumenical visitors is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81991_99113_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 21, 2008...

* Today in Prayer for Lambeth: We give thanks for our common history and
your faithfulness to us in our shared history as members of the Anglican
Communion. Help the bishops and spouses gathered in Canterbury to
acknowledge that which unites us and to discover how they can glorify  and
serve you as they respond together to God's call to mission.