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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 1, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - ATLANTA: 'Faithful telling' conference seeks
racial reconciliation
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop launches Greater London Presence
and Engagement Network
* MISSION - Voices of Witness Africa: New documentary tells stories of
gay Anglicans
* PEOPLE - Sewanee School of Theology announces three new faculty
appointments
* PEOPLE - Virginia Theological Seminary awards three honorary degrees
* EDUCATION - Church Divinity School of the Pacific lays off staff,
restructures seminary
* DAYBOOK - June 2, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Mary's Hours: Daily Prayers with the Mother of God

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

ATLANTA: 'Faithful telling' conference seeks racial reconciliation

>By Peggy J. Shaw

[Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of Atlanta explored paths to
racial reconciliation May 30, in a special conference at the Cathedral
of St. Philip. Participants shared stories about segregation,
discrimination, and slavery; speakers such as human rights advocate
Ruby Sales offered inspiration, and some 100 participants searched for
ways to breach the alienation that continues among races.

Ideas generated by the conference, which was called "Toward a Full and
Faithful Telling," will be shared at the Episcopal Church's 2009
General Convention, scheduled to take place July 8-17 in Anaheim,
California.

"We are too quick to tout the progress we've made toward racial
reconciliation as though the work is finished," explained Bishop Neil
Alexander of the Diocese of Atlanta. "Such thinking blinds us to the
reality. In so many ways, we have only just begun. This must demand of
us fresh energy and renewed commitment."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_108803_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop launches Greater London Presence and Engagement Network

[Lambeth Palace] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams joined the
Church of England bishops of Chelmsford, London, Tunbridge and
Southwark and representatives from 120 parishes across London at a
series of events June 1 to launch the Greater London Presence and
Engagement Network (PEN).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_108516_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

>Voices of Witness Africa

New documentary tells stories of gay Anglicans

[Episcopal News Service] Voices of Witness Africa is a new 30-minute
documentary intended to help Episcopalians listen to the views and
experiences of Anglicans who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender (GLBT) and to emphasize that homosexuality is "not just a
North American or European issue," says the Rev. Cynthia Black.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_108805_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

Sewanee School of Theology announces three new faculty appointments

[Sewanee] The School of Theology at Sewanee: The University of the
South has announced the appointment of three new members of its
faculty: Dr. Paul Holloway as associate professor of New Testament,
the Rev. Robert MacSwain as instructor of Theology and Christian
Ethics, and the Rev. Dr. Benjamin King as assistant professor of
Church History.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_108387_ENG_HTM.htm

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Virginia Theological Seminary awards three honorary degrees

[Episcopal News Service] Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria
conferred three honorary degrees May 21 during its 186th commencement
ceremony.

The Rev. Benjamin Pfohl Campbell, pastoral director of Richmond Hill
in Richmond, Virginia, and the Rev. Dr. Carl P. Daw Jr., executive
director of The Hymn Society in Boston, Massachusetts, were awarded
Doctor in Divinity degrees, honoris causa. A Doctor of Humane Letters,
honoris causa, was awarded to Donnie E. Wheatley, executive director
of Boys' Home, Inc. in Covington, Virginia.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_108386_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>EDUCATION

Church Divinity School of the Pacific lays off staff, restructures seminary

[Episcopal News Service] Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP)
announced May 29 the layoff of five of its 17 full-time staff members
as a part of a comprehensive restructuring of the Episcopal
Church-affiliated seminary in Berkeley, California.

The restructuring is a response to mounting financial pressures and
changes in the educational needs of the Episcopal Church, according to
a CDSP news release.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_108799_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On June 2, 2009, the church calendar remembers the Martyrs of Lyons (d.
177).

* 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 June 2, 597, Augustine, missionary to England
and first archbishop of Canterbury, baptized Saxon king Ethelbert, the
first Christian English king.

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>CATALYST

"Mary's Hours: Daily Prayers with the Mother of God" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Penelope Duckworth, 151 pages, hardcover, c.
2009, $20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] A contemporary book of daily prayers,
scripture, and meditations organized in a week-long cycle of devotion
to God through the life of the Virgin Mary. Organized upon the joys
and sorrows of the Marian Rosary, this prayer book encompasses the
life of Mary as she followed her son and experienced her own
discipleship. It gives those who use it a deeper appreciation of the
life of the woman, traditionally recognized as first among the saints,
who has been cherished as a soul friend to Christians since the
beginning of the church.

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

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