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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 5, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Northern Michigan, bishop-elect will 'respect' consent  process
* MISSION - Major Anglican ecumenical report 'The Vision Before Us' is
published
* OPINION - Letters: Episcopal Life Monthly June 2009
* ARTS - Artists share Gifts in first open-studio ECVA exhibit
* DAYBOOK - Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Your Faith, Your Life - An Invitation to The Episcopal  Church

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>TOP STORIES

Northern Michigan, bishop-elect will 'respect' consent process

Thew Forrester says he is steeped in orthodoxy

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal Life Online] While some unofficial tallies show that Kevin
Thew Forrester will not receive the canonically required consents to
his ordination as bishop of the Diocese of Northern Michigan, he said
June 5 that he and the diocese will "respect" the entire 120-day
consent period.

"I continue to respect that 120 days," Thew Forrester told ENS. "The
process has a wisdom and integrity of its own. The diocese and I have
respected that all the way through and will continue to do that. When
the process concludes, I will have something more to say."

Thew Forrester, chosen during a special convention on February 21 to
succeed James Kelsey who died in June, 2007, has come under intense
scrutiny since his election.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_109244_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MISSION

Major Anglican ecumenical report 'The Vision Before Us' is published

[ACNS] A comprehensive account of the Anglican Communion's ecumenical
work has been published by the Anglican Communion Office.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_109243_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Letters: Episcopal Life Monthly June 2009

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>ARTS

Artists share Gifts in first open-studio ECVA exhibit

>By Julia J. Fleming

>[Episcopal Life]  They create to praise.

About 90 artists from all corners of the country, as well as Mexico
and the United Kingdom, participated in Gifts, the first open-studio
exhibition hosted on the website of the Episcopal Church and Visual
Arts. Artists submitted what they considered to be their best or
favorite work not previously shown at an ECVA exhibition.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_109178_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On June 8, 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 June 8, 1536, following Henry VIII's
Declaration of Supremacy, English clergy drew up the Ten Articles of
Religion, the first articles of the Anglican Church since its break
from Roman Catholicism.

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>CATALYST

"Your Faith, Your Life - An Invitation to The Episcopal Church" from
Church Publishing, Inc., by Jenifer Gamber, with Bill Lewellis, 202
pages, paperback, c. 2009, $15

[Church Publishing, Inc.] An everything-you-need-to-know guide for
newcomers to engage deeply in the Christian life in the tradition of
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This book will carefully present The Episcopal Church's language of
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