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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>July 30, 2008

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Lambeth bishops wrestle with Scripture
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Digest, Day 9
* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishop Leo Frade of
Southeast Florida, Bishop Dean Wolfe of Kansas
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - EAST CAROLINA: Diocese commemorates baptisms of lost
colony
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - FLORIDA: Diocese partners with Prisoners of Christ,  Inc.
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury to award Cross of
St. Augustine
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Anglican primate rejects call to stop
'intervention' in U.S.
* EDUCATION - Joanna Dewey and Carter Heyward lectures set for
Episcopal Divinity School
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishop Leo
Frade of Southeast Florida, Bishop Dean Wolfe of Kansas
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Waikato Bishop David Moxon addresses media at
Lambeth News Conference
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Professor Gerald West addresses media at Lambeth
News Conference
* ARTS - Moore's memoir opens curtains on family secrets
* WEEKS AHEAD - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 13 -
Year A [RCL]
* DAYBOOK - July 31, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Reinventing Anglicanism

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>TOP STORIES

>Lambeth bishops wrestle with Scripture

Conference also grapples with perceptions of limits to interpretation

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Before Anglicans can talk about
the biblical texts surrounding homosexuality, they first need to find
some common ground about the use of the Bible.

That was the premise of the work asked of bishops on July 30 at the
Lambeth Conference on the day when the theme was "Living Under
Scripture: the Bishop and the Bible in Mission."

As bishops and others talked about the work of the day and the
challenges of biblical interpretation, metaphors and exegetical lingo
abounded. Houses and dances, among other images, competed with terms
such as "hermeneutics" and "ecclesio-theological framework" as ways to
describe both engagement with Scripture and the challenges of that
engagement.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99577_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Lambeth Digest, Day 9

[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 30, the ninth day
of the conference.

Lambeth Digest: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99574_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishop Leo Frade of Southeast
Florida, Bishop Dean Wolfe of Kansas

[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] Bishops Leo Frade of Southeast
Florida and Dean Wolfe of Kansas offer the Daily Account for July 30
at the 2008 Lambeth Conference in Canterbury.

Daily Account: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99561_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

EAST CAROLINA: Diocese commemorates baptisms of lost colony
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_99569_ENG_HTM.htm

FLORIDA: Diocese partners with Prisoners of Christ, Inc.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_99567_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury to award Cross of St. Augustine
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_99560_ENG_HTM.htm

KENYA: Anglican primate rejects call to stop 'intervention' in U.S.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_99558_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>EDUCATION

Joanna Dewey and Carter Heyward lectures set for Episcopal Divinity  School

[Episcopal News Service] Billed as "One day, two great lectures,"
Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) will hold the Joanna Dewey Lecture in
Feminist Biblical Studies and the Carter Heyward Scholars Program
Lecture on November 13.

Delivering the Joanna Dewey Lecture at 4 p.m. will be the Rev. Dr.
Renita J. Weems, a noted scholar, author and minister. Her lecture is
titled, "Baking Cakes to the Queen of Heaven: God, Goddesses, and
Growing Up Black and Female in America."

The Joanna Dewey Lecture in Feminist Biblical Studies was created as a
tribute to Dr. Joanna Dewey, the Harvey Guthrie, Jr. professor emerita
of Biblical Studies and former academic dean, to assure the
continuation of her life work in theologies of liberation. Dewey is
known for her many contributions to the women's rights movement,
particularly her work in developing women's liberation theology. She
continues to teach courses at EDS and promotes a critical approach to
biblical interpretation and an understanding of feminist liberation
theology.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_99527_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: Lambeth Conference Daily Account: Bishop Leo Frade of Southeast
Florida, Bishop Dean Wolfe of Kansas

[Episcopal News Service] Bishops Leo Frade of Southeast Florida and
Dean Wolfe of Kansas offer the Daily Account for July 30 at the 2008
Lambeth Conference in Canterbury.

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Video: Waikato Bishop David Moxon addresses media at Lambeth News  Conference

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. David Moxon, Bishop of Waikato
in New Zealand, speaks at the July 30 news conference at the 2008
Lambeth Conference.

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Video: Professor Gerald West addresses media at Lambeth News Conference

[Episcopal News Service] Professor Gerald West, convenor of the
Lambeth Bible study team, speaks at the July 30 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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>ARTS

Moore's memoir opens curtains on family secrets

>By Martha Baker

>[Episcopal Life]

>THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER
>A Memoir
>By Honor Moore
>Norton, 368 pp., $25.95

Reading Honor Moore's memoir, "The Bishop's Daughter," feels like
being embraced in brocade -- not scratched by newness or weighted by
thickness, but enfolded in rich, golden fabric softened by care. Moore
is a poet with a journalist's sensibilities, an essayist's cunning, a
researcher's rabidness.

The book was excerpted in a March issue of "New Yorker" magazine, so
the sensational parts -- her father's bisexuality, for example -- have
been screened, but the whole cloth matters so much more than any
single swath.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_99531_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WEEKS AHEAD

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available
at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_1669_ENG_HTM.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 13 - Year A [RCL]

Genesis 32:22-31, Psalm 17: 1-7, 16; or Isaiah 55:1-5, Psalm 145: 8-9,
15-22; Romans 9:1-5; Matthew 14:13-21

>By James Hinckley

[Sermons That Work] The gospel for this Sunday is from Matthew,
chapter 14, verses 13 to 21, and it is perhaps the best known parable
of the Bible.

Well, yes and no. Yes, it is certainly well known. But no, even though
it is commonly referred to as "The Parable of the Loaves and Fishes,"
it is actually not a parable. Merriam-Webster defines "parable" as "a
usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a
religious principle."

And while this story certainly illustrates both a moral attitude and a
religious principle, it is presented by the author of the Gospel of
Matthew as an actual event from the ministry of Jesus.

Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82478_99416_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 31, 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: Illuminate for us the deep and
incomprehensible power of Love manifested in our human sexuality. Help
the bishops understand how they may be faithful to that Love in a
shared understanding of God's mission.

* Today in History: On July 31, 1966, residents of Alabama burned
Beatles' records and other products after John Lennon proclaimed the
Beatles to be "more popular than Jesus."

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>CATALYST

"Reinventing Anglicanism" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Bruce Kaye,
foreword by Ian T. Douglas, 279 pages, paperback, c. 2003, $25

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Anglicanism worldwide faces many problems in
the post-Empire era. Churches that were originally founded as colonial
and missionary outposts by Great Britain and the United States have
now become autonomous Anglican provinces; and what used to be a
predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon group of churches in the northern
hemisphere has become a truly global community, most of whose members
live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific. Using the
experience of the Anglican Church in Australia, Bruce Kaye tracks the
modern story of Australian Anglicanism and reconsiders key elements of
the New Testament, the English Reformation, and the ongoing
theological traditions that relate to this story.

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