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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>August 27, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Anglican Observer at the U.N. focus of September 7  bulletin
inserts
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: New Westminster diocese takes steps to reclaim
parishes, remove clergy
* WORLD REPORT - CENTRAL AFRICA: Botswana bishop asks media to be more
'gracious and balanced'
* MISSION - Beijing Circles Conference to welcome Ambassador Swanee Hunt  as
keynote speaker
* PEOPLE - Linda Brooks named interim art director, print, Episcopal  Life
Media
* WEEKS AHEAD - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 17 -  Year
A [RCL]
* DAYBOOK - August 28, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious
Tradition

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>TOP STORIES

Anglican Observer at the U.N. focus of September 7 bulletin inserts

[Episcopal Life Weekly] Bulletin inserts for September 7 briefly outline  the
work of the Anglican Communion Observer at the United Nations. The  Observer
actively promotes the mission of the Communion on matters of  reconciliation,
peace and justice.

Bulletin inserts are available at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: New Westminster diocese takes steps to reclaim parishes, remove
clergy
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_100224_ENG_HTM.htm

CENTRAL AFRICA: Botswana bishop asks media to be more 'gracious and
balanced'
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_100215_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Linda Brooks named interim art director, print, Episcopal Life Media
  
[Episcopal News Service] Linda Brooks has joined the communications team  at
the Episcopal Church Center in New York as interim art director, print,  for
Episcopal Life Media. Brooks recently returned to the New York area from
Colorado and has worked with a number of Episcopal publications. Molly
Ruttan-Moffat, who is based in Los Angeles, served as art director,  print
for Episcopal Life from December, 2007 to August, 2008 and continues as  art
director for the Diocese of San Joaquin's newspaper and other projects  as
needed.

Brooks has more than two decades of experience working on Episcopal  Church
publication projects. She occasionally assisted former Episcopal Life  art
director Jerry Fargo and laid out the paper for three months while he  was on
sabbatical. She also has worked with the current interim director of
communications, the Rev. Canon Kris Lee, on ministry pages for Episcopal
Life. She has worked on a number of diocesan publications, including The
Missionary (Northern California), The Disciple (North Carolina), The  Voice
(Newark) and The Dominion (Long Island). She has a great deal of  experience
with many other types of publications, including serving as creative
services manager of the New York Post, supervising a staff of four plus
freelancers. "I am looking forward to working with a professional of her
caliber," said Solange De Santis, editor, Episcopal Life Media.

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MISSION

Beijing Circles Conference to welcome Ambassador Swanee Hunt as keynote
speaker

[Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts] The Honorable  Swanee
Hunt, founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at  Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government and former ambassador to Austria, will be  the
keynote speaker at Beijing Circles Conference sponsored by the Episcopal
Church and Episcopal Divinity School.

Scheduled for September 26-27, the 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 conference will  run
from 5:30-9 p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday. The conference  fee
is $25 which includes dinner on Friday, continental breakfast and lunch  on
Saturday, as well as a copy of Hunt's book, This Was Not Our War:  Bosnian
Women Reclaiming the Peace." The event will be held on the Episcopal
Divinity School campus located at 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

The program begins on Friday evening with dinner, followed by a panel
discussion centered on how women's leadership can work to restore God's
creation using the Beijing Platform for Action as a blueprint. Panelists
include Phoebe Griswold, one of the founders of Anglican Women's
Empowerment; Lallie Lloyd, author of Eradicating Global Poverty: A  Christian
Study Guide on the Millennium Development Goals; and the Rev. Jane  Gould, a
participant in the 4th World Conference on Women during which the  Beijing
Platform was adopted. The panel will be facilitated by Kim Robey,  program
officer for Women's Ministries and Leadership Development at the  Episcopal
Church Center in New York.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_100216_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_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

Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 17 - Year A [RCL]

Exodus 3:1-15, Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c; or Jeremiah 15:15-21, Psalm
26:1-8; Romans 12:9-21; Matthew 16:21-28

>By Ken Kesselus

[Sermons That Work] Last Sunday's gospel was really fun -- Peter's  answering
for the disciples that Jesus is much more than people were saying he was  --
that he was the Messiah. Fun because Jesus affirmed them and even told  Peter
he was a rock on which he would build the church. Fun for us, because we  can
hear that story and also feel affirmed as part of that church that  exists as
the very body of Christ.

Today, though, it's not so fun. Today we hear Jesus telling Peter and  the
disciples the sacrificial cost of what he must do to carry out God's  will
for all people -- and the sacrificial cost of what they must do as the  body
of Christ.

Jesus said, "You are right in saying I am the Messiah, but since I am, I
must go up to Jerusalem where I will suffer much and be rejected by the
religious leaders. There I will be killed, and after three days rise  again."

Typically, Peter took the initiative again, speaking for the disciples:  "God
forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you."

Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82478_100179_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On August 28, 2008, the Church calendar remembers Augustine, Bishop of  Hippo
(354-430).

* 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 History: On August 28, 1796, William H. Bathurst, Anglican  priest
and hymnist, was born near Bristol, England.

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>CATALYST

"The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Tradition"  from
Random House, Inc., by Karen Armstrong, 565 pages, paperback, c. 2008,
$15.95

[Random House, Inc.] In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of  the
civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions that have  endured to
the present day -- the development of Confucianism and Daoism in China,
Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical
rationalism in Greece. Armstrong, one of our most prominent religious
scholars, examines how these traditions began in response to the  violence of
their time. Studying figures as diverse as the Buddha and Socrates,
Confucius and Jeremiah, Armstrong reveals how these still enduring
philosophies can help address our contemporary problems.

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, or call 800-903-5544 -- or visit your
local Episcopal bookseller, http://www.episcopalbooksellers.org

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