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>Episcopal Life Daily
>April 21, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Executive Council considers new partnership with
Liberian Episcopal Church
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: Tiny parish nourishes Mount
Carmel community
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA: Blacksburg parish offers
labyrinth as a place of healing for Virginia Tech community
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTH AFRICA: Anglican archbishop says country must
have arms deal inquiry
* PEOPLE - Sandra McPhee, Karen Chane to serve International Anglican
Women's Network
* OPINION - What is a meaningful job? Church provided a new lens for
viewing vocation
* DAYBOOK - April 22, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Eating the Sun - How Plants Power the Planet

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>TOP STORIES

Executive Council considers new partnership with Liberian Episcopal Church

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] As the Episcopal Church of Liberia tries to
rebuild after years of civil war that ravaged the church and the
nation, the Episcopal Church is being asked to continue aiding that
work.

The Episcopal Church's Executive Council will on April 22 consider
approving a new covenant partnership between the Episcopal Church and
the Episcopal Church in Liberia. The Liberian diocese approved the
agreement at its convention earlier this year.

Founded by the U.S.-based Episcopal Church in 1836, the Episcopal
Church of Liberia was a diocese in the Episcopal Church until 1980,
when it became part of the Anglican Province of West Africa. As part
of that change of affiliation, the Episcopal Church and the Liberia
diocese signed the current covenant partnership, which pledges each
entity to mutual ministry and interdependence and calls for financial
subsidies for a certain amount of time.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107006_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: Tiny parish nourishes Mount Carmel community

>By Lisa B. Hamilton

[Episcopal News Service] It's understandable the citizens of Mount
Carmel, Pennsylvania "used to think there was no Episcopal church" in
their community, says the Rev. Ronald R. Lausch. After all, the only
one in town, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, has an average Sunday
attendance of 10-12. That perception has been put to rest, however, by
The St. Stephen Center for Ministry, an Episcopal Jubilee Center whose
vibrant ministries belie the size of the sponsoring parish.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_106988_ENG_HTM.htm

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SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA: Blacksburg parish offers labyrinth as a place
of healing for Virginia Tech community

Gift made possible with Episcopal Relief and Development grant

>By Christie Wills

[Diocese of Southwestern Virginia] Parishioners at Christ Church,
Blacksburg have installed and blessed a labyrinth as a gift to the
community in response to the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting tragedy. The
purchase of the labyrinth was made possible by a grant from Episcopal
Relief and Development.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_107000_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

SOUTH AFRICA: Anglican archbishop says country must have arms deal inquiry

>By Munyaradzi Makoni

[Ecumenical News International, Cape Town] Anglican Archbishop Thabo
Makgoba of Cape Town says a decision by prosecutors to drop charges
against South African presidential candidate Jacob Zuma will become a
"running sore" unless there is an independent inquiry into the arms
deal that triggered a legal process that has gripped the country for
more than two years.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_107002_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Sandra McPhee, Karen Chane to serve International Anglican Women's Network

[Episcopal News Service] Sandra McPhee and Karen Chane have been
chosen to represent the Episcopal Church on the International Anglican
Women's Network (IAWN), an official network of the communion that
reports the work of Anglican women, and the challenges they face, to
the Anglican Consultative Council.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_106995_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>What is a meaningful job?

Church provided a new lens for viewing vocation

>By Stacy Stringer

[Episcopal Life] What do you do when your dream job becomes a
nightmare? And you realize you've invested your heart, soul and mind
in an enterprise that has lost its heart? And the megacorporation you
work for disintegrates in disgrace before a worldwide audience? And
your very identity is threatened?

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_106991_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On April 22, 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 April 22, 1836, Alexander Viets Griswold, fifth
presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, was born in Simsbury,
Connecticut.

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>CATALYST

"Eating the Sun - How Plants Power the Planet" from HarperCollins
Publishers, by Oliver Morton, 460 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $28.95

[HarperCollins Publishers] Eating the Sun is the fascinating story of
the most everyday miracle: photosynthesis. Wherever there is greenery,
photosynthesis is working to make oxygen, energy and organic matter
from the raw material of sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. Though
this process is rarely given much thought and few truly understand the
beautifully honed mechanisms that make it possible, without
photosynthesis, there would be no food to eat or air to breathe.

A celebration of how the smallest things -- enzymes and pigments --
influence the largest things -- the oceans, the fossil fuel economy --
Eating the Sun shows how understanding photosynthesis is not only the
key to the earth's history, it is also vital to confronting the
current climate crisis -- a crisis rooted in the carbon cycle, which
drives photosynthesis. Lyrically written, deeply insightful, this
engaging work offers a new way of seeing the world as it explains how
we can change it for the better -- or worse.

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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