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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 28, 2008

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Lambeth Digest, Day 7

* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference: Interfaith collaboration a 'dialogue  of
life'
* TOP STORY - Windsor Continuation Group proposals on homosexuality  issues,
interventions, get mixed reception
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishop Suffragan  Catherine
S. Roskam of New York, Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona
* WORLD REPORT - INDIA: Churches condemn latest series of bomb blasts
* EDUCATION - Episcopal Divinity School set to host first New England
Beijing Circles Conference
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Windsor Continuation Group Chair Clive Handford
addresses the media
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Reflections Group Chair Roger Herft addresses the
media
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Pakistan Moderator John Malik addresses media at
Lambeth News Conference
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Southwark Bishop Tom Butler addresses media at  Lambeth
News Conference
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishop Suffragan
Catherine S. Roskam of New York, Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona
* DAYBOOK - July 29, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - A History of Global Anglicanism

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>TOP STORIES

>Lambeth Digest, Day 7

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Much happens each day at the  Lambeth
Conference. In addition to Episcopal Life Media's other coverage, here's
some of what else happened on July 28, the seventh day of the  conference.

Lambeth Digest: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99473_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth Conference: Interfaith collaboration a 'dialogue of life'

>Rabbi speaks about 'covenant'

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] In Eastern Zambia, Muslim and  Christian
faith communities together have created an advocacy program for those  living
with HIV/AIDS.

Their collaboration has meant a dramatic improvement in the subsequent
quality of life and is one of "the fruits of interfaith dialogue," said
Bishop Tom Butler of the South London-based Diocese of Southwark. "It  has
enabled people suffering from the disease to openly go and get the help  that
they need," added Butler, who told media on July 28 that he'd learned of  the
ministry in his morning discussion group.

Anglican bishops attending the 2008 Lambeth Conference addressed issues  of
interfaith dialogue. The day's theme was: "Engaging with a multi-faith
world: the bishop, other religions and Christian witness."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99467_ENG_HTM.htm

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Windsor Continuation Group proposals on homosexuality issues,  interventions,
get mixed reception

'Pastoral forum' proposed to offer 'advice and guidelines'

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] The Windsor Continuation Group  (WCG)
made a preliminary proposal July 28 to maintain Windsor  Report-recommended
bans on same-gender blessings, cross-border interventions and the  ordination
of gay and lesbian people to the episcopate.

The group's "preliminary observations," given to the bishops at a  Lambeth
Conference hearing, also call for the "swift formation" of a "pastoral
forum" that would rapidly "engage theologically and practically with
situations of controversy as they arise or divisive actions that may be
taken around the communion." The forum could "offer pastoral advice and
guidelines in conflicted, confused and fragile situations" and "work
alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury in the exercise of his ministry."

While the paper says that a continuation of the Windsor bans "refers to  both
future actions and is also retrospective," Archbishop Clive Handford,  former
primate of Jerusalem and the Middle East and chair of the continuation
group, told a news briefing that "we are not anywhere intending to imply
that Bishop Gene Robinson should resign as a result of what we have  called
for in our observations."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99438_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishop Suffragan Catherine S. Roskam  of
New York, Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Bishop Suffragan Catherine S.  Roskam of
New York and Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona offer the following Daily  Account
for July 28 at the 2008 Lambeth Conference in Canterbury.

Daily Account: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99430_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

INDIA: Churches condemn latest series of bomb blasts
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_99475_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>EDUCATION

Episcopal Divinity School set to host first New England Beijing Circles
Conference

[EDS] Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) will serve as host of the first  New
England Beijing Circles Conference sponsored by the Episcopal Church.
Scheduled for September 26 and 27, this conference will explore ways  women
around the world can work together to address issues of poverty,  education,
health, and gender equality faced by their global sisters.

The Beijing Circles Conference is intended to inform and teach  participants
about the Beijing Circles Movement. The movement began in 2005 when, at  the
annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) meeting  in
New York, an assessment was done to determine if progress was being made
toward resolving twelve critical areas of concern regarding the status  of
women - areas identified in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on  Women,
sponsored by the United Nations and held in Beijing, China. The areas
identified ranged from the increasing burden of poverty on women,  violence
against women, stereotyping and gender inequalities, and lack of respect  for
the human rights of women. The 12 areas were then adopted into the  Beijing
Platform for Action. While the UNCSW noted some progress in 2005, it was
clear that there was still a long way to go.

These events inspired a small group of women from the Episcopal Church  to
dedicate themselves to finding a way to stay focused on addressing these
issues. They began inviting their U. S. sisters to gather with the sole
purpose of educating themselves and others about the Beijing Platform  for
Action. They called their gathering a Beijing Circle, and from that and
their subsequent commitment, the Beijing Circles were born.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_99444_ENG_HTM.htm

More Education: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80263_93222_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MULTIMEDIA

Multimedia files available at

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

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Video: Windsor Continuation Group Chair Clive Handford addresses the  media

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Clive Handford, chair of the  Windsor
Continuation Group, speaks at the July 28 late afternoon news conference  at
the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

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Video: Reflections Group Chair Roger Herft addresses the media

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Roger Herft, chair of the Lambeth
reflections group and bishop of the Diocese of Perth in Australia,  speaks at
the July 28 late afternoon news conference at the 2008 Lambeth  Conference.

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Video: Pakistan Moderator John Malik addresses media at Lambeth News
Conference

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. John Malik, moderator of the  Church of
Pakistan, speaks at the July 28 early afternoon news conference at the  2008
Lambeth Conference.

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Video: Southwark Bishop Tom Butler addresses media at Lambeth News
Conference

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Tom Butler, bishop of the  London-based
Diocese of Southwark, speaks at the July 28 early afternoon news  conference
at the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

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Video: Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishop Suffragan Catherine S.
Roskam of New York, Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Suffragan Catherine S. Roskam of New  York
and Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona offer the following Daily Account for  July
28 at the 2008 Lambeth Conference in Canterbury.

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Multimedia files available at

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

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>DAYBOOK

On July 29, 2008, the Church calendar remembers Mary and Martha of  Bethany.

* 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: Be with the bishops and their spouses, as
they engage together the realities of power and authority. Help them  find
ways to heal the wounds of gender abuse and to restore right relations
between men and women.

* Today in History: On July 29, 1974, two retired and one resigned  bishop
ordained 11 women deacons to the priesthood in Philadelphia's Church of  the
Advocate.

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>CATALYST

"A History of Global Anglicanism" from Cambridge University Press, by  Kevin
Ward, 362 pages, paperback, c. 2006, $35.99

[Cambridge University Press] Anglicanism can be seen as irredeemably
English. In this book Kevin Ward questions that assumption. He explores  the
character of the African, Asian, Oceanic, Caribbean and Latin American
churches which are now a majority in the world-wide communion, and shows  how
they are decisively shaping what it means to be Anglican. While  emphasizing
the importance of colonialism and neo-colonialism for explaining the
globalization of Anglicanism, Ward does not focus predominantly on the
Churches of Britain and N. America; nor does he privilege the idea of
Anglicanism as an 'expansion of English Christianity'. At a time when
Anglicanism faces the danger of dissolution, Ward explores the  historically
deep roots of non-Western forms of Anglicanism, and the importance of  the
diversity and flexibility which has so far enabled Anglicanism to  develop
cohesive yet multiform identities around the world.

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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm