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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 22, 2008

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Sudanese primate wants Robinson's resignation
* TOP STORY - Bishops at Lambeth engage questions of evangelism
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Digest, Day 2
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishops Nathan Baxter of
Central Pennsylvania, Bruce Caldwell of Wyoming
* TOP STORY - Emergent evangelist challenges Lambeth Conference to speak  to
a new world
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Sudanese Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul addresses the
media, calls for Robinson's resignation
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Bishops and their spouses, partners speak about  their
experiences at Lambeth
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishops Nathan
Baxter of Central Pennsylvania, Bruce Caldwell of Wyoming
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Bishop Clive Handford addresses media at Lambeth  News
Conference
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Thomas Charles Bair addresses media at Lambeth  News
Conference
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Harare Bishop Sebastian Bakare addresses media at
Lambeth News Conference
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: North Carolina Bishop Michael Curry addresses  media at
Lambeth News Conference
* OPINION - Keep Communion safe: Gluten-free wafers feed celiac's spirit
without hurting the body
* DAYBOOK - July 23, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a  Fractured
World

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>TOP STORIES

>Sudanese primate wants Robinson's resignation

New Hampshire bishop's spokesman says he won't quit

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, primate  of
the Episcopal Church of Sudan (ECS), said July 22 that New Hampshire  Bishop
Gene Robinson should resign in order preserve the unity of the Anglican
Communion.

"Gene Robinson has to be away from the Anglican world and be a normal
Christian," said Deng at an afternoon news conference. "If he is, as he
always says, a Christian, he should resign for the sake of the church."

Asked if he has talked to Robinson, Deng replied, "I have nothing to say  to
him."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99260_ENG_HTM.htm

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Bishops at Lambeth engage questions of evangelism

>By Solange De Santis

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Anglican bishops meeting at the  2008
Lambeth Conference on July 22 shared views on Christian evangelism, in  terms
of its essential nature for the church and its sometimes-difficult  global
context. The focus for the day was set the previous evening, when author and  pastor
Brian McLaren spoke about evangelism in the "modern, post modern,  colonial
and post colonial" worlds.

At a news conference the next morning, McLaren was asked about his  concept
that the "rules" of denominations often make religion unattractive,
especially to young people. "Certain boundaries are necessary but  sometimes
boundaries are harmful to the community," he said. Referring to the  Anglican
Communion's current disagreements over Scripture and homosexuality, he  said
"there are two options -- kick out everybody or create space for  respectful
dialogue."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99261_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Lambeth Digest, Day 2

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Much happens each day at the  Lambeth
Conference (http://www.lambethconference.org/index.cfm). In addition to
Episcopal Life Media's other coverage
(http://episcopalchurch.org/97360_ENG_HTM.htm), here's some of what else
happened on July 22, the second day of the conference.

Lambeth Digest: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99263_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishops Nathan Baxter of Central
Pennsylvania, Bruce Caldwell of Wyoming

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Bishops Nathan Baxter of Central
Pennsylvania and Bruce Caldwell of Wyoming offer the following Daily  Account
for July 22 at the 2008 Lambeth Conference in Canterbury.

Daily Account: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99250_ENG_HTM.htm

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Emergent evangelist challenges Lambeth Conference to speak to a new  world

McLaren says Anglicanism is uniquely positioned make disciples

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Anglicanism has "great, great
advantages at this moment" in the world's history to help people become
"authentic followers of Jesus Christ," evangelist Brian McLaren told a  July
21 plenary session of the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

McLaren, a non-denominational pastor who lectures and writes about
modern-day evangelism and whom Time magazine named one of American's 25  most
influential evangelicals, spoke to the bishops and their spouses and  guests
on the evening of July 21 in the Big Top, a circus tent pitched in a  parking
lot of the University of Kent in Canterbury.

McLaren told participants that "on our one planet now we have three  worlds
co-existing:" a pre-modern world, a modern world and an emerging world.  He
said evangelism may feel "effortless" when pre-modern people are  entering
the modern world because "the Christian church so effectively became
connected with modern culture."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99239_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Multimedia files available at

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

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Video: Sudanese Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul addresses the media, calls  for
Robinson's resignation

[Episcopal News Service] The Most Rev. Daniel Deng Bul, primate of the
Episcopal Church of the Sudan, told the media July 22 that New Hampshire
Bishop Gene Robinson should resign in order preserve the unity of the
Anglican Communion.

Episcopal Life Media runs a video stream of Deng's impromptu news  conference
in two parts.

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Video: Bishops and their spouses, partners speak about their experiences  at
Lambeth

[Episcopal News Service] Northwestern Pennsylvania Bishop Sean Rowe and  his
wife, Carly, and Connecticut Suffragan Bishop Laura Ahrens and her  fiancé,
Bob Fawber, speak about the Lambeth Conference and Spouses Conference  and
what the experience brings to their relationships.

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Video: Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishops Nathan Baxter of  Central
Pennsylvania, Bruce Caldwell of Wyoming

[Episcopal News Service] Bishops Nathan Baxter of Central Pennsylvania  and
Bruce Caldwell of Wyoming offer the following Daily Account for July 22  at
the 2008 Lambeth Conference in Canterbury.

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Video: Bishop Clive Handford addresses media at Lambeth News Conference

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Clive Handford, chair of the  Windsor
Continuation Group and former president bishop of Jerusalem and the  Middle
East, speaks at the July 22 news conference at the 2008 Lambeth  Conference.

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Video: Thomas Charles Bair addresses media at Lambeth News Conference

[Episcopal News Service] Thomas Charles Bair, spouse of Rhode Island  Bishop
Geralyn Wolf, speaks at the July 22 news conference at the 2008 Lambeth
Conference.

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Video: Harare Bishop Sebastian Bakare addresses media at Lambeth News
Conference

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Sebastian Bakare, bishop of  Harare,
Zimbabwe, speaks at the July 22 news conference at the 2008 Lambeth
Conference.

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Video: North Carolina Bishop Michael Curry addresses media at Lambeth  News
Conference

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, bishop of North
Carolina, speaks at the July 22 news conference at the 2008 Lambeth
Conference.

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Multimedia files available at

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

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>OPINION

>Keep Communion safe

Gluten-free wafers feed celiac's spirit without hurting the body

>By Susan Delphine Delaney

[Episcopal Life] About five percent of your church's communicants have
celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that results in sensitivity to  the
gluten in wheat. Wheat is present in regular Communion wafers.

Those of us with celiac disease may suffer from the following symptoms  if we
ingest a regular Communion wafer: bone or joint pain; fatigue and  weakness;
gastric reflux; nausea and vomiting; diarrhea; or migraines. If I have
regular wheat Communion wafers, I do not sleep for five nights.

Certainly, none of the above symptoms are the desired effect of "being  fed
with spiritual food" in the Eucharist.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_99243_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 23, 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: Arouse a passion among the assembled  bishops
for justice, well-being, and healing for all your people. Keep them  always
mindful that our use of resources can make a difference in the lives of
others.

* Today in History: On July 23, 1978, more than 400 bishops gathered  from
all over the Anglican Communion as the 11th Lambeth Conference of  Bishops of
the Church began.

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>CATALYST

"Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World"  from
Oxford University Press, by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart, 254 pages,
hardcover, c. 2008, $24.95

[Oxford University Press] Today between forty and sixty nations, home to
close to two billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on  the
brink of failure. The world's worst problems -- terrorism, drugs and  human
trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide --
originate in such states, and the international community has devoted
billions of dollars to solving the problem. Yet by and large the effort  has
not succeeded.

Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart have taken an active part in the effort  to
save failed states for many years, serving as World Bank officials, as
advisers to the UN, and as high-level participants in the new government  of
Afghanistan. Now, in Fixing Failed States, they describe the issue --
vividly and convincingly -- offering an on-the-ground picture of why  past
efforts have not worked and advancing a groundbreaking new solution to  this
most pressing of global crises. Military force, while certainly  necessary on
occasion, cannot solve the fundamental problems, and humanitarian
interventions cost billions yet do not leave capable states in their  wake.

Ghani and Lockhart argue that only an integrated state-building approach  can
heal these failing countries. As they explain, many of these countries
already have the resources they need, if only we knew how to connect  them to
global knowledge and put them to work in the right way. Their  state-building
strategy, which assigns responsibility equally among the international
community, national leaders, and citizens, maps out a clear path to
political and economic stability. The authors provide a clear, practical
framework for achieving these ends, supporting their case with  first-hand
examples of struggling territories such as Afghanistan, Sudan, Kosovo  and
Nepal as well as the world's success stories -- Singapore, Ireland, and  even
the American South.

The battle against terror, poverty, climate change, and much more cannot  be
won unless we can save these nations. In Fixing Failed States, two of  the
world's foremost authorities offer a way out of the current crisis -- a
framework for re-imagining the international system. It is a book that  is
unique in its essential optimism -- an optimism that the authors have  earned
through their own substantial real-world efforts in failed states.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit your
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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm