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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>February 10, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Archbishop of Canterbury spotlights challenges,
priorities of 'imperfect' communion
* TOP STORY - Primates communiqué, Windsor report are 'study in
contrasts,' House of Deputies president says
*TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop joins call for review of U.S. policy on
landmines and cluster munitions
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - COLORADO: Split congregation due in court Tuesday
in property dispute
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Church highlights Darwin's 'forgotten' parish  work
* PEOPLE - House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson to be named
canon of Diocese of Central Ecuador
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Archbishop of Canterbury addresses Church of
England General Synod
* DAYBOOK - February 11, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - In the Company of Christ: A Pilgrimage Through Holy Week

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>TOP STORIES

Archbishop of Canterbury spotlights challenges, priorities of
'imperfect' communion

Williams addresses Church of England's General Synod

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service -- London] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan
Williams has told members of the Church of England's General Synod
that while the Anglican Communion may be "imperfect ... we
unmistakably want to find a way of holding on to what we have and
'intensifying' it."

Williams' message came as part of his February 10 presidential address
as the Church of England's main legislative body convened for a
five-day meeting at Church House in Westminster, London.

Underscoring "the significance of a climate in which every participant
is guaranteed a hearing," Williams opened his address with some
reflections about last summer's Lambeth Conference and last week's
primates meeting.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104952_ENG_HTM.htm

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Primates communiqué, Windsor report are 'study in contrasts,' House of
Deputies president says

[Episcopal News Service] Bonnie Anderson, president of the Episcopal
Church's House of Deputies, said in a statement February 9 that the
recent communiqué from the Anglican Communion's Primates meeting
stands in contrast to a report from the Windsor Continuation Group
released the same day.

Anderson said that the primates' message "adopted both a new tone and
a broader set of theological concerns" that was markedly different
from previous communiqué which she said often set "deadlines, made
veiled threats and attempted unwelcome incursions into the affairs of
the Anglican Consultative Council and member churches." By contrast,
the continuation group's report, Anderson said, was a "step backward"
and reflected a yearning for "for greater ecclesial centralization
achieved by concentrating power in the hands of bishops and
archbishops, further marginalizing the laity and diminishing the
influence of member churches in the common life of our communion."

Anderson noted that the continuation group said there is what it
called an "ecclesial deficit" in the communion and she said the group
proposed to remedy it by strengthening the three of the four
instruments of communion: the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primates
Meeting and the decennial Lambeth Conference of bishops.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104956_ENG_HTM.htm

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Presiding Bishop joins call for review of U.S. policy on landmines and
cluster munitions

>By Joe Bjordal

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori has joined with leaders of 67 national organizations
in calling on President Barack Obama to reconsider United States
opposition to global treaties prohibiting the use, transfer and
production of landmines and cluster munitions.

In a letter, delivered on February 10, the leaders called on the
president to launch a review of the past administration's decisions to
"stand outside of" two international treaties:  the Convention on
Cluster Munitions, completed and signed by 95 countries in December
2008, and the Mine Ban Treaty, signed by all but 39 countries in the
world in March 1999.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104965_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

COLORADO: Split congregation due in court Tuesday in property dispute

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Opposing sides in a festering property
dispute involving a landmark downtown Colorado Springs church faced
off in an El Paso County district court on February 10.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_104962_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Church highlights Darwin's 'forgotten' parish work

[Church of England] A new page paying tribute to the "forgotten"
church work of Charles Darwin in his local parish of Downe, Kent, has
been published on the Church of England's website, to illustrate, once
again, how science and the work of the church can combine together.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_104923_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson to be named canon of
Diocese of Central Ecuador

>By Neva Rae Fox

[Episcopal News Service] Bonnie Anderson, president of the House of
Deputies of the Episcopal Church, will be named a canon of the Diocese
of Ecuador Central's Catedral de El Senor in Quito at a special
service on Sunday, February 21 by Bishop Wilfrido Ramos-Orench.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_104947_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Archbishop of Canterbury addresses Church of England General  Synod

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
delivers his presidential address February 10 as members of the Church
of England's main legislative body, the General Synod, convene at
Church House in Westminster, London.

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On February 11, 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 February 11, 1531, King Henry VIII was
recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.

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>CATALYST

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