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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>January 30, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Dominican Episcopal Church listens to the 'shouts of the
suffering'
* TOP STORY - Executive Council reiterates commitment to covenant
talks, lists concerns with current draft
* TOP STORY - Proposed change in Texas law aimed at church property  disputes
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: Gulick of Kentucky recommended for
provisional bishop
* EDUCATION - Emory lecture series to tackle genocide, terrorism, gay  rights
* MULTIMEDIA - Image Gallery: Presiding Bishop visits Diocese of the
Dominican Republic
* OPINION - Season of renewal
* ARTS - Changing prison stereotypes: Art programs open creativity and
opportunity to inmates
* DAYBOOK - January 31, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Episcopal Life's Guide to Retirement and Financial Planning

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>TOP STORIES

Dominican Episcopal Church listens to the 'shouts of the suffering'

Presiding Bishop's visit showcases diocese rooted in evangelism,  outreach

>>From staff reports

[Episcopal News Service, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic] During her
recent pastoral visit to clinics, schools, and churches in the
Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic, Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori saw hope written across the faces of those
she encountered.

"Every ministry we visited was an encounter with individuals and
communities of faith who heard the voice of God say to them 'follow me
and serve me,'" Jefferts Schori told an estimated 3,000 Dominican
Episcopalians who gathered January 18 for Eucharist at a volleyball
stadium at Olympic Park in Santo Domingo.

The service came near the end of her January 15-19 pastoral visit to
the diocese known locally as Iglesia Episcopal Dominicana. The
Presiding Bishop made 11 stops, and each site was selected to
demonstrate a particular ministry of the diocese. The tour included
each of the diocese's four deaneries.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104553_ENG_HTM.htm

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Executive Council reiterates commitment to covenant talks, lists
concerns with current draft
Communion's interdependence grows from 'mutuality, not regulation,'  council
says

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Stockton, California] The Episcopal
Church's Executive Council said January 30 that the church "remains
committed to the Communion-wide process of conversation towards an
Anglican covenant."

"At the same time, TEC wants to emphasize that matters of moral
authority and interdependence amongst churches result from mutuality,
not regulation," the council wrote its response to the St. Andrew's
Draft of the proposed covenant.

"Care needs to be taken that our conversations around an Anglican
covenant do not draw us necessarily toward a hierarchical model of a
church union or even the perception of Anglicanism as a singular
global church," the response said.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104589_ENG_HTM.htm

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Proposed change in Texas law aimed at church property disputes
Corsicana church rector calls bill 'next natural step' to halt disputes

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] An Episcopal priest who proposed rewriting
Texas law to favor dissident congregations in property disputes said
January 30 he considers it "the next natural step" in an attempt to
halt lawsuits within the church.
"It's shameful we're spending so much money suing one another when we
could be using that money for mission," said the Rev. Canon Ed Monk,
rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Corsicana.

He and other leaders of the conservative 300-member St. John's,
located about 50 miles southeast of Dallas, contacted state
Representative Byron Cook, a three-term Republican. On January 22,
Cook introduced House Bill 972, which directs courts to find a "just
and right" division of property, having "due regard" for all parties.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104591_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

FORT WORTH: Gulick of Kentucky recommended for provisional bishop

Diocese to hold February 7 special reorganizing convention

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
has recommended the Rt. Rev. Edwin "Ted" Gulick Jr. of Kentucky to
serve as provisional bishop for the continuing Episcopal Diocese of
Fort Worth.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_104555_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>EDUCATION

Emory lecture series to tackle genocide, terrorism, gay rights

Human rights advocate Irwin Cotler, New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson
to headline

[Episcopal News Service] Irwin Cotler, Canadian Member of Parliament
and McGill University law professor, Bishop Gene Robinson of the
Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, and Mona Siddiqui, professor of
Islamic studies and public understanding at the University of Glasgow,
are among those featured in the 2009 "When Law and Religion Meet"
lecture series hosted by Emory University's Center for the Study of
Law and Religion (CSLR).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_104537_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Image Gallery: Presiding Bishop visits Diocese of the Dominican Republic

[Episcopal News Service] An image gallery of Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori's January 15-19 pastoral visit to the
Diocese of the Dominican Republic is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81991_104557_ENG_HTM.htm

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>OPINION

>Season of renewal

>By Solange De Santis

[Episcopal Life] Spring -- when "the earth is alive with gods,"
according to Robert Louis Stevenson -- usually represents the time of
renewal.

The turn of a new year also inspires a leap in the heart, even in
northern climes where steps may be slowed and faces stunned by
knifelike cold. The word "new" shimmers with hope, with a gaze toward
the future and a sense that sins of the past can be cleansed or at
least mitigated by fresh resolve.

That concept has powered America from its beginnings -- a land with a
restless, surging spirit, forever drawn toward the new. Consider the
countless accomplishments the question "What can we do that hasn't
been done before?" produced in technology, the arts, science,
government. George Gershwin, whose exuberant music embodied the soul
of originality, expressed it well when he said, "My people are
American. My time is now."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_104539_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>ARTS

>Changing prison stereotypes

Art programs open creativity and opportunity to inmates

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal Life] It was almost 20 years ago when a University of
Michigan English professor, Buzz Alexander, entered a Coldwater,
Mich., prison to conduct a theater workshop with inmates. At about the
same time, an Episcopal priest, Joe Summers, and some members of his
fledgling congregation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had decided to focus
their outreach on people in prison through Bible study groups.

The paths of these men first had crossed 15 years earlier when Summers
was a student in an English class taught by Alexander, a man who would
become not only his teacher but also his mentor. Throughout their
friendship since, the two have shared the challenges and rewards of
working with men and women in Michigan prisons and juvenile-detention
facilities.

Their work of reaching out to people in prison, they say, has been one
of the richest experiences of their lives. And they cite ample
evidence of hope and healing brought into the lives of the men, women
and youth who have participated in the Prison Creative Arts Project
(PCAP).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_104551_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On January 31, 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 31, 1991, Archbishop of Canterbury
Robert Runcie retired.

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>CATALYST

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