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>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 9, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Churches hear of fear, anxiety and hope for Middle East peace
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion are topic of
fourth General Convention bulletin insert
* PEOPLE - Bishop Packard to retire; search begins for next bishop
suffragan for federal ministries
* MULTIMEDIA - Women are backbone of Anglican church in Zimbabwe, Bakares
say
* OPINION - Responses to 'Among military chaplains, fundamentalism is
taking hold'
* DAYBOOK - Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? Unpublished
Writings and Diaries

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>TOP STORIES

Churches hear of fear, anxiety and hope for Middle East peace

>By Lucy Chumbley

[Episcopal News Service, Washington, D.C.] "It is the best of times
and the worst of times," said Warren Clark, executive director of
Churches for Middle East Peace, opening the organization's annual
conference, "Israeli/Palestinian Peace: Hope For Things Unseen," held
June 7-9 in the U.S. capital.

"We are meeting here this year at an extraordinary time," he told the
155 conference participants, who represent 22 national churches and
church bodies, including Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant
denominations. "A time of great fear, great anxiety and great hope,"
he said.

Clark, an Episcopalian from the Diocese of Washington, described how
the Gaza conflict, the election of conservative Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and the ongoing expansion of Israel's settlements
has caused the situation to deteriorate over the last year. "Things
seem to be grimmer than ever, and yet there's a great deal more hope
today than there has been for a long time," he said.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_109577_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion are topic of fourth General
Convention bulletin insert

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Life Weekly continues its series of
bulletin inserts on the subject of General Convention with "Bonds of
Affection: The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion." Written
by the Rev. Canon Charles K. Robertson, canon to Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori, the insert outlines the relationship of The
Episcopal Church and other churches in the Communion, all of which
have roots in the Church of England. Primates, or presiding bishops
and archbishops, of other provinces in the Communion have been invited
to attend the General Convention, convening July 8 - 17 in Anaheim,
California.

To download bulletin inserts, click here:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Bishop Packard to retire; search begins for next bishop suffragan for
federal ministries

>By ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] Military bases, federal hospitals and
prisons, and armed forces chaplains wherever they may be - that has
been Bishop George Packard's world-spanning ministry for nearly a
decade.

He has announced his retirement, effective May 31, 2010, and the
Episcopal Church has begun a search for candidates willing to accept a
call to be the sixth bishop suffragan for federal ministries.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_109571_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Women are backbone of Anglican church in Zimbabwe, Bakares say

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Sebastian Bakare of Harare and his
wife Ruth talk about the role of the Mothers' Union and women in the
Anglican church throughout Zimbabwe.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>OPINION

Responses to 'Among military chaplains, fundamentalism is taking hold'

[Episcopal News Service] Several readers have responded to the Opinion
column "Among military chaplains, fundamentalism is taking hold" by
the Rev. David Somerville, published May 27 on Episcopal Life Online.

The full text of Somerville's column is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81840_108027_ENG_HTM.htm. Responses to
the column are available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_109482_ENG_HTM.htm.

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

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>DAYBOOK

On June 10, 2009, the church calendar remembers Ephrem of Edessa,
deacon (c. 306-373).

* 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 10, 869 Patriarch Photius I of
Constantinople was condemned by a Roman synod and later by a general
council at Constantinople. But the various rulers of the area began
choosing up sides, leading toward the split of the Eastern and Western
churches within the next 200 years.

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>CATALYST

"What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? Unpublished Writings and
Diaries" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Edwin H. Friedman, 185
pages, paperback, c. 2009, $28

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Whether he is interviewing God ("I must be
the first since Moses to be allowed into your presence"), preaching on
"marriage as music," or reflecting on a visit to his parents' grave,
Friedman always has the power to surprise us and invite us to change.
This new collection of Edwin Friedman's writings, most of them
unpublished, reveal a different side of this rabbi, teacher, and
leadership coach who caused a revolution in viewing human
relationships with Generation to Generation.
Organized into life stages, specifically the journey from young
adulthood to maturity and death, What Are You Going to Do with Your
Life? captures Friedman's signature wit and playfulness as he cuts
straight to the heart of human growth and relationships.

Throughout his life, Friedman eloquently applied the insights of
family therapy to churches and synagogues, organizations and
businesses -- and, of course, to families themselves. He energized and
delighted a wide public in his lifetime and continues to engage us
with What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?, an essential reader for
those seeking life-changing insights.

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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