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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 27, 2008

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Archbishop of Canterbury leads two Sunday services
* TOP STORY - Lambeth participants reshape 'indaba' process
* TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop preaches at historic London church
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Presiding Bishop preaches in London
* DAYBOOK - July 28, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History

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>TOP STORIES

Archbishop of Canterbury leads two Sunday services

Lambeth bishops attend worship at local churches

By Solange De Santis and Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Like a circuit-riding vicar,
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams led two Sunday morning
services on July 27 -- one at little St. Dunstan's Church
(http://www.canterbury.co.uk/thedms.asp?dms=13&venue=3031391) that was
broadcast by the BBC and the other at giant Canterbury Cathedral
(http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org).

Bishops and spouses attending the Lambeth Conference
(http://www.lambethconference.org/index.cfm) attended Sunday worship
at churches in and around Canterbury, including St. Paul, one of the
two churches in St. Martin & St. Paul parish
(http://www.martinpaul.org/index.htm), where Diocese of Kumasi
(http://anglicandioceseofkumasi.com) bishop Daniel Sarfo and his wife
Mary told the congregation about the fruits of its partnership with
the Mampong Babies' Home in Ghana.

Williams told the St. Dunstan congregation -- as well as a radio
audience of about 1.75 million, according to the BBC -- that amid the
"threats and insecurities of life," following Jesus means "you are not
alone and you are not trapped."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99404_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Lambeth participants reshape 'indaba' process

Discuss difficult issues sooner, some bishops say

>By Solange De Santis

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Halfway through the once-a-decade
Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, the new discussion process
called "indaba" is getting mixed reviews and participants said on July
26 that some groups are changing their agendas.

This conference -- the 14th since 1867 -- is the first to use the
format and it was designed to provide a different method of
communication than the sometimes-divisive resolutions and voting that
are characteristic of parliamentary-style debate. Based on a Zulu
concept, "indaba" refers to a group meeting where conflicts can be
aired and a consensus agreement reached.

Each day's meetings begin after morning Eucharist with eight-member
Bible study groups, which then gather in collections of five to form
40-member indaba groups. The 16 larger groups consider the day's
particular topic or theme. While some bishops praise the structure,
others expressed varying levels of discontent.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99407_ENG_HTM.htm

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Presiding Bishop preaches at historic London church

"I don't see a split" in communion, she tells forum

>By Pat McCaughan  July 27, 2008

[Episcopal News Service, London]  From where bishops shop for socks to
senseless street violence, the usefulness of the Lambeth Conference
and what will happen to mission partnerships if the Anglican Communion
splits -- parishioners at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church on July 27
peppered Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori with questions at
a open forum after she preached at a Sunday Eucharist.

Jefferts Schori was guest preacher at the 10:00 a.m. service at the
landmark Trafalgar Square church where King George I served as the
first warden. About 300 worshippers crowded the church whose patron,
St. Martin of Tours, is depicted as a soldier halving his cloak to
share with a beggar.

Jefferts Schori mentioned a St. Martin's renewal project that aims to
replace Victorian burial vaults with increased space for ministry to
the homeless. "It will take what is old and what is new -- the good
stuff from the past and the surprising possibilities of the present.
As your priest told me before the service, the crypt downstairs was
condemned for the dead in the 1940s, but it is open to the living
now."

The full text of Jefferts Schori's sermon is available at:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/KJS_sermon_7-27-08_final.pdf

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99408_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: Presiding Bishop preaches in London

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
preached July 27 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, a Diocese of London
parish in Trafalgar Square.

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Multimedia files available at

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 28, 2008.

* Today in Prayer for Lambeth: Help the bishops gathered at Canterbury
to see the possibilities of dialogue with other religions, and to
share the Gospel in loving and generous humility with those who do not
yet know Christ.