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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 2, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Full communion with Moravians proposed
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LONG ISLAND: Bishop Walker begins leave of absence
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - KANSAS: Wichita-area clergy, Presiding Bishop
express horror at George Tiller's murder
* OPINION - Civil discourse, Part II
* DAYBOOK - June 3, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Ubuntu - I in You and You in Me

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>TOP STORIES

>Full communion with Moravians proposed

General Convention set to address key ecumenical issues

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal Life] Deepening relationships between the Episcopal Church
and its ecumenical partners, including a proposal for full communion
with the Moravian Church, will be the focus of draft legislation
presented to General Convention when it meets July 8-17 in Anaheim,
California.
General Convention also will welcome ecumenical and interfaith guests
to participate, observe and learn about the Episcopal Church and its
governance.

The Standing Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations
spent the last triennium working on recommendations concerning
interchurch cooperation and interreligious dialogue and action.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_108829_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LONG ISLAND: Bishop Walker begins leave of absence

>By Solange De Santis

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Orris Walker, Jr. is taking a leave
of absence from the Diocese of Long Island until November 14, the day
his resignation takes effect, the Garden City, New York-based diocese
announced. The leave started on June 1.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_108848_ENG_HTM.htm

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KANSAS: Wichita-area clergy, Presiding Bishop express horror at George
Tiller's murder

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Dean E. Wolfe of the Episcopal Diocese
of Kansas and a dozen clergy who serve Episcopal churches in the
metropolitan Wichita area have issued a statement expressing their
sadness and horror at the murder on May 31 of abortion doctor George
Tiller.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_108830_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Civil discourse, Part II

>By Solange De Santis

[Episcopal Life] In January, this space discussed the concept of civil
discourse - public debate and discussion in the opinion and letters
section of Episcopal Life Online and Episcopal Life. Under the
principle that truth rises from many voices, Episcopal Life Media (the
umbrella name for the paper and electronic publications) accepts
expressions of a wide range of viewpoints, subject to certain
conditions.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_108838_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On June 3, 2009, the church calendar remembers The Martyrs of Uganda (d.
1886).

* 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 3, 1162, Thomas Becket was consecrated as
Archbishop of Canterbury.

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>CATALYST

"Ubuntu - I in You and You in Me" from Church Publishing, Inc., by
Michael Battle, Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 166 pages,
paperback, c. 2009, $18

[Church Publishing, Inc.] As defined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a
person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of
others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he
or she has a proper self assurance that comes from knowing that he or
she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are
humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

The African spiritual principle of Ubuntu offers believers a new and
radical way of reading the Gospel and understanding the heart of the
Christian faith, and this new book explores the meaning and utility of
Ubuntu as applied to Western philosophies, faith, and lifestyles.

Ubuntu is an African way of seeing self-identity formed through
community. This is a difficult worldview for many Western people, who
understand self as over, against, or in competition with others. In
the Western viewpoint, Ubuntu becomes something to avoid -- a kind of
codependency. As a Christian leader who understands the need,
intricacies, and delicate workings of global interdependency, Battle
offers here both a refreshing worldview and a new perspective of
self-identity for people across cultures, and of all faiths.

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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