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>Episcopal Life Daily
>April 23, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Environmental collaboration celebrates Wyoming mountain  range
* TOP STORY - Communion Partners statement challenges Episcopal Church
polity
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - MAINE: Bishop supports 'rights and obligations of  civil
marriage' for all state citizens
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PITTSBURGH: Jews and Episcopalians join in service  on
Mitzvah Day
* ARTS - Hope and a ham: How a bet on a horse opened a world of change
* DAYBOOK - April 24, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Praying in Color - Kid's Edition

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>TOP STORIES

Environmental collaboration celebrates Wyoming mountain range

>By Phina Borgeson

[Episcopal News Service] On April 21, the eve of Earth Day, the Wyoming
Association of Churches gathered representatives of a broadly based
coalition to celebrate the passage of national legislation protecting  the
Wyoming Range, a long chain of mountains running north and south in  western
Wyoming, from future mineral development.

Meeting on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie, they lauded  their
success with speakers representing government, environmental and faith
perspectives.

Part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 signed by  President
Obama on March 30, the Wyoming Range portion of new law is the  culmination
of a five-year campaign to protect the area.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107044_ENG_HTM.htm

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Communion Partners statement challenges Episcopal Church polity

>Group's conclusions draw swift criticism

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] A statement released April 22 and signed by
Episcopal bishops and clergy challenges the polity of the Episcopal  Church
by suggesting that dioceses are autonomous entities and independent of
General Convention, the church's main legislative body.

The statement, which drew swift criticism for being an attack on the
church's governance, was signed by 15 active and retired Episcopal  Church
bishops and endorsed by three Episcopal clergy who are members of the
conservative Anglican Communion Institute. It was leaked online April 22  and
officially released later the same day. It suggests that Episcopal  Church
dioceses are "not subject to any metropolitical power or hierarchical
control" but rather "the ecclesiastical authorities in our dioceses are  the
Bishops and Standing Committees; no one else may act in or speak on  behalf
of the dioceses or of the Episcopal Church within the dioceses."

In light of their conclusions about the church's governance, the group's
statement also claims that individual dioceses are constitutionally  entitled
to sign onto the proposed Anglican covenant, a set of principles  intended to
bind the Anglican Communion provinces in light of recent disagreements  over
human sexuality issues and theological interpretation.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107043_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

MAINE: Bishop supports 'rights and obligations of civil marriage' for  all
state citizens

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] During a hearing April 22 in Augusta, Maine, a
representative of Episcopal Diocese of Maine Bishop Steven Lane told
legislators that they ought to "extend the rights and obligations of  civil
marriage to all Maine citizens."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_107030_ENG_HTM.htm

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PITTSBURGH: Jews and Episcopalians join in service on Mitzvah Day

>By Lisa B. Hamilton

[Episcopal News Service] This Sunday (April 26), members of Calvary
Episcopal Church and Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh together  will
serve their community on what they call "Mitzvah Day." The Hebrew word
"mitzvah" means "good deed or being obedient to the law."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_107037_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

>Hope and a ham

>How a bet on a horse opened a world of change

>By Anne McConney

[Episcopal Life] Back in the days before I was born, my family went  through
some bad times. They weren't alone, of course. The Great Depression of  the
'30s was raging over the land, and the entire country was mired in  economic
disaster.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_107032_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On April 24, 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 24, 1875, English New Testament textual  critic
Samuel P. Tragelles died. Tregelles' literary achievements included his  work
on G. V. Wigram's famous Englishman's Greek and Hebrew Concordances and  the
translation of Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon into English.

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>CATALYST

"Praying in Color - Kid's Edition" from Paraclete Press, by Sybil  MacBeth,
38 pages, paperback, c. 2009, $16.99

[Paraclete Press] Now kids can pray in color, too!

This first-of-its-kind resource will forever change the way kids pray -  and
how adults try to teach them to do it.

This is prayer that makes sense to kids.  One minute a day will do. Any  time
of the day will work. Drawing with markers or crayons is half the  prayer;
the other half is carrying the visual memories throughout the day.

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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