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>Episcopal Life Daily
>November 10, 2008

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Resources for stopping domestic violence featured in  November
23 bulletin inserts
* TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop says church laments Quincy departures
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Deposed Pittsburgh bishop elected to lead former
Episcopalians, realigned diocese
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury praises Zimbabwean
Anglican bishop
* MISSION - Partnership for World Mission reviews Lambeth Conference
hospitality initiative, Indaba process
* FEATURE - Generosity and peace are hallmarks of the Navajo
* DAYBOOK - November 11, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Daily Readings for Advent: Hearing God through the Noise

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>TOP STORIES

Resources for stopping domestic violence featured in November 23  bulletin
inserts

[Episcopal Life Weekly] Breaking the Silence, a new handbook about  dealing
with domestic violence from a spiritual perspective, is featured in the
November 23 Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts. A list of resources  is
also included. November 25 has been designated by the United Nations as  the
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Bulletin inserts are available at

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

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Presiding Bishop says church laments Quincy departures

>By Joe Bjordal

[Episcopal News Service, Quincy, Illinois] Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori said November 8 that the church "laments the departure  from
the Episcopal Church of some individuals in southern Illinois" after  members
of the Diocese of Quincy voted on November 7 to leave the Episcopal  Church
and realign under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Province of the  Southern
Cone.

"The Episcopal Diocese of Quincy remains, albeit with fewer members, and  we
are working to assist in the reorganization of diocesan affairs," she  said.
"We assure all, both Episcopalians and former Episcopalians, and members  of
their surrounding communities, of our prayers for clarity and charity in
their spiritual journeys. May all be reminded that the Gospel work of
healing this world will take the best efforts of every person of faith."

The action to realign was carried out by the passing of two resolutions.  The
deputies represent 24 churches and missions and about 1,800  parishioners.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_102262_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

Deposed Pittsburgh bishop elected to lead former Episcopalians,  realigned
diocese
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_102256_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop of Canterbury praises Zimbabwean Anglican bishop
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_102293_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Partnership for World Mission reviews Lambeth Conference hospitality
initiative, Indaba process

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service, London] Assessing the Lambeth Conference's
hospitality initiative and the Indaba process used throughout last  summer's
gathering of Anglican Communion bishops was the focus of the Partnership  for
World Mission's annual conference.

The PWM conference -- which brought together representatives from church
mission agencies and diocesan companion links with members of the Church  of
England and global partners involved in world mission -- was divided  into
worship, plenary sessions, and base groups of eight people each that met
four times throughout the November 3-5 gathering in Swanwick, England.

"The conference sought to seriously engage with what came out of the  Lambeth
Conference and seek a 'plan of action' as we go forward," said Stephen  Lyon,
PWM secretary. "Over the 48 hours together we covered a great deal of  ground
and left feeling that what happened in Canterbury over the summer will  feed
into the mission relationships we seek to have with our partners."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_102307_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>FEATURES

Generosity and peace are hallmarks of the Navajo

[Episcopal Life Holiday Gift Guide] "The Diné (Navajo) observe  Christmas as
their own tradition within the clan family, and in the location where  they
live," said Anna Fowler of Farmington, New Mexico.

A member of All Saints Church in Farmington, she is chairperson of the  Hogan
Learning Circle for the Episcopal Church in Navajoland, which works to  mesh
traditional Navajo spirituality and traditions with those of the church.

She noted that the "Diné culture varies in different perspectives in
different areas of the Navajo Nation," which covers 27,000 square miles  in
Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The boundary lines for the Episcopal  Church in
Navajoland are contiguous with the Navajo Nation.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_102288_ENG_HTM.htm

More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On November 11, 2008, the Church calendar remembers Martin, Bishop of  Tours,
397.

* 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 November 11, 1992, after a five-and-a-half hour
debate, the General Synod of the Church of England passed legislation to
allow women to be priests by a margin of only two votes.

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>CATALYST

"Daily Readings for Advent: Hearing God through the Noise" from Forward
Movement, by Albert Kennington, 46 pages, paperback, c. 2008, $3

[Forward Movement] Forward Movement's 2008 booklet of Advent meditations
calls us to pay careful attention to listen for the still small voice of  God
amidst the winter cold, holiday busyness and loneliness, and all other
problems and distractions of this world that seek to overwhelm us.

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