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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>February 19, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - TEXAS: Wimberly turns over diocesan operations to
successor bishop
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Religious leaders castigate president and prime
minister
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Lambeth Palace holds reception for first
Inter Parliamentary Conference on anti-Semitism
* PEOPLE - VTS presents first Dean's Cross award to Tay Cooper and Harold
Lewis
* PEOPLE - Archbishop of Canterbury names Rachel Carnegie secretary
for international development
* ARTS - Worthy books for this Lenten season
* DAYBOOK - February 20, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Letters to My Daughter

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

TEXAS: Wimberly turns over diocesan operations to successor bishop

>By Carol E. Barnwell

[Diocese of Texas] Episcopal Diocese of Texas Bishop Don Wimberly has
handed over operations of the diocesan offices and the work of the
diocese at large to Bishop Coadjutor Andy Doyle.

Wimberly announced his intention to step away from diocesan operations
in his February 14 address to the 160th Diocesan Council. Wimberly,
who will retire June 6, will continue to chair the diocesan
foundations, the diocesan executive council, St. Luke's Episcopal
Health System, and the board of the Austin-based Seminary of the
Southwest   until then.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_105264_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

KENYA: Religious leaders castigate president and prime minister

[Ecumenical News International] Religious leaders in Kenya have
castigated their president, Mwai Kibaki, and prime minister, Raila
Odinga, saying that citizens are dispirited, embarrassed and bitter
with their leadership.

"We are concerned enough even to rise up and march in the streets
against our political leaders," Anglican Church of Kenya Archbishop
Benjamin Nzimbi told a national prayer rally on February 19 what is
seen as one of the strongest messages from the faith community to
Kenya's political leaders.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_105260_ENG_HTM.htm

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ENGLAND: Lambeth Palace holds reception for first Inter Parliamentary
Conference on anti-Semitism

[Lambeth Palace] Participants in the first Inter Parliamentary
Conference on anti-Semitism were welcomed to Lambeth Palace February
17.

Bishop of Manchester Nigel McCulloch, who is also chair of the Council
of Christians and Jews, hosted the reception on behalf of Archbishop
of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

The conference, the first of a series, follows the work of the All
Party Parliamentary Committee on anti-Semitism
(http://www.thepcaa.org) which produced a major report in 2007 and is
chaired by British Parliament member John Mann. Future conferences
will be held under the auspices of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition
on Combating anti-Semitism.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_105259_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

VTS presents first Dean's Cross award to Tay Cooper and Harold Lewis

[Virginia Theological Seminary - Alexandria, Virginia] The Virginia
Theological Seminary awarded the Dean' s Cross for Servant Leadership
in Church and Society for the first time on February 15 to Octavia
"Tay" Wood Cooper, a lifelong lay leader; and to the Rev. Canon Harold
T. Lewis,  rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_105249_ENG_HTM.htm

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Archbishop of Canterbury names Rachel Carnegie secretary for
international development

[Lambeth Palace] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has announced
that he has appointed the Rev. Rachel Carnegie as secretary for
international development, based at Lambeth Palace.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_105249_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

>Worthy books for this Lenten season

>By Lois Sibley and Jerry Hames

Since the fourth century, Christians have used many labyrinth designs
and a multitude of labyrinth resources for personal pilgrimages,
meditation and spiritual formation.

A Labyrinth Pilgrimage (Amazon, $4.95) by Chris Radke is a pilgrim's
journey for Lent using a cross labyrinth that the author created for
use in Christian spiritual formation classes. Radke's labyrinth has a
seven circuit path, with 47 straight lines representing the 40 days of
Lent, as well as the Sundays, including Easter Day. "The cross
labyrinth has a unique, symbolic connection with Lent," he said. "A
prayer labyrinth has only one entrance and one destination. In the
cross labyrinth, that destination is the foot of the cross."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_105251_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On February 20, 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 20, 1469, Tomasso de Vio Cajetan,
famous cardinal who convinced Pope Clement VII to reject Henry VIII's
request to divorce Catherine of Aragon, was born in Gaeta, Italy.

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>CATALYST

"Letters to My Daughter" from Random House, Inc., by Maya Angelou, 166
pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $25

[Random House, Inc.] For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited
new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of
our best-loved writers.

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her,
Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and
living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this
book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and
pure delight.

Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life
that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught
her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her
indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen
by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an
awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex
paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.

Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and
Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, or simply singing
the praises of a meal of red rice -- Maya Angelou writes from the
heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.

"I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters.
You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking,
Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain,
gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you
all. Here is my offering to you."

To order: Episcopal Books and Resources, online at
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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm

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