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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>January 29, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop urges action to end Lord's Resistance
Army attacks
* TOP STORY - Crisis leadership calls for creativity, risk-taking,
clarity
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Standing Committee acknowledges
Scriven's service to diocese
* MISSION - 'Winter Talk' hears native voices 
* DAYBOOK - January 30, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Lenten Tree: Devotions for Children and Adults to
Prepare for Christ's Death and His Resurrection

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>TOP STORIES

Crisis leadership calls for creativity, risk-taking, clarity
House of Deputies president, San Joaquin chancellor say conflict can be
creative

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Stockton, California] Being a leader in times
of crisis requires the ability to manage conflict in creative ways that
build and maintain relationships, and that are clear about the costs
involved, Bonnie Anderson, president of the Episcopal Church's House of
Deputies, and Diocese of San Joaquin Chancellor Michael Glass told a
gathering January 28 at the University of the Pacific here. 

Anderson's and Glass' presentation on "Leadership in Times of Crisis,"
part of Pacific's University Forum, was co-sponsored by the school's
Jacoby Center for Public Service and Civic Leadership and the campus'
Morris Chapel. The Rev. Donna McNiel, a priest in the Episcopal Church,
was installed in mid-2007 as the university's multi-faith chaplain.
Anderson and Glass were in Stockton to attend the three-day winter
meeting of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council which begins January
29.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104524_ENG_HTM.htm

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Presiding Bishop urges action to end Lord's Resistance Army attacks

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has
expressed "great sorrow" at the latest widespread violence inflicted on
Sudanese communities by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and has called
on U.S.-based Episcopalians to take action through advocacy and prayer. 

The recent atrocities by the LRA, a Ugandan rebel organization, are the
latest in a 22-year-long terrorist campaign that has reignited after
high-level peace talks have failed to broker a permanent ceasefire.

In a January 29 statement, the Presiding Bishop asks Episcopalians to do
four things: learn more about the crisis and educate others; email the
White House and urge President Barack Obama to work with international
leaders to bring an end to the LRA's activity; contribute to Episcopal
Relief and Development, whose programs in the region help to provide
humanitarian aid; and "pray frequently for the people of central and
eastern Africa who are or have been victims of the LRA."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104479_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PITTSBURGH: Standing Committee acknowledges Scriven's service to diocese

[Episcopal News Service] The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese
of Pittsburgh has issued a statement thanking outgoing Assistant Bishop
Henry Scriven "for the gracious way in which [he] exercised his ministry
in the Episcopal Church while he served here." 

The statement came after the Standing Committee learned that Presiding
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori had accepted Scriven's voluntary
renunciation of his orders in the Episcopal Church. The committee said
that it "understands that this action was not in any sense a
disciplinary action or an action taken because of Bishop Scriven's
support for the attempt to realign the diocese with the Anglican
Province of the Southern Cone."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_104528_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

>'Winter Talk' hears native voices 

>By Dick Snyder

Episcopal News Service] More then 60 indigenous and non-native clergy
serving in native settings gathered for the 20th annual Winter Talk
Conference sponsored by the Episcopal Church on the Standing Rock Nation
in North Dakota Jan. 19-21. 

Bishop Michael Smith of the hosting North Dakota diocese said that the
event was "an important native Episcopal Church network of support,
prayer, friendship and healing." He noted that representatives of 17
dioceses "spent several days praying, sharing, laughing, crying and
learning from each other."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_104518_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On January 30, 2009...

* 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 January 30, 1877, the first members of the Church
Mission Society arrived in Uganda. Though missions saw few immediate
results, after the missionaries' deaths, the Ugandan church grew
quickly.

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>CATALYST

"The Lenten Tree: Devotions for Children and Adults to Prepare for
Christ's Death and His Resurrection" from Abingdon Press, written by
Dean Lambert Smith, illustrations by Ginger Meador, 188 pages,
hardcover, c. 2001, $17

[Abingdon Press] In this book, author Dean Smith, has compiled
eighty-two devotions for both children and adults that will enable
individuals and families to travel on a meaningful journey through Lent,
the season before Easter. The Lenten Tree begins on the first day of
Lent, Ash Wednesday, and ends on Easter day, the day Christians
celebrate the resurrection of the Savior, Jesus Christ. 

Each devotion reveals who Jesus Christ is and what he has done. Readers
will also journey through the events of the last week leading up to
Christ's death and resurrection. In addition to these devotions, this
book contains illustrations, which may be used to create a special
"Lenten Tree."

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

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