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>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 10, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - California appellate court rules La Crescenta property
belongs to Los Angeles diocese
* TOP STORY - Episcopal camps nurture faith and friendships
* WORLD REPORT - PHILIPPINES: Lawmakers' attempt to change
constitution draws church protests
* WORLD REPORT - SRI LANKA: Protect democratic rights, bishop tells
president
* MISSION - Awe and advocacy in a Tennessee forest
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - June 14 - Second Sunday After Pentecost,
Proper 6 - Year B
* DAYBOOK - June 11: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Daily Devotions with William Barclay

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>TOP STORIES

California appellate court rules La Crescenta property belongs to Los
Angeles diocese

Separate settlements mark July 1 return for Petaluma, Modesto
Episcopal congregations

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] A California appellate court's June 9 ruling
was the latest in a series of recent developments that return disputed
church properties to three California Episcopal dioceses.

On June 9, the San Diego-based Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled
unanimously that the Diocese of Los Angeles is legal owner of property
currently occupied by St. Luke's Anglican Church. The congregation had
cited theological differences when severing ties to the Episcopal
Church (TEC) in 2006 and realigning with an Anglican diocese in
Uganda.

In unrelated agreements, displaced Episcopalians will return July 1 to
two other disputed properties, St. John's Church in Petaluma. in the
Diocese of Northern California and St. Paul's Church in Modesto in the
Diocese of San Joaquin.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_109709_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Episcopal camps nurture faith and friendships

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal Life] It was the first full day at Camp Stevens at Julian,
California, for 31 sixthgraders, and every step along the hiking trail
brought fresh discoveries.

Camille Furby, 12, a first-time camper, was part of a group receiving
a mid-May mini-lesson on discerning dog prints from cat tracks. "I
like it. I'm learning a lot," said Furby, whose class curriculum
included spending a week at the camp about 60 miles north of San
Diego.

>From merely taking time out to stop, be still and listen to meadow
grasses shifting in the wind to contemplating varieties of energy,
recognizing poison oak or settling in amid charred oak and pine trees
for an impromptu fire safety lesson, "we want them to have this
experience," said Erin Brennan, a teacher at Furby's school, All
Hallows Academy.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_109661_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

PHILIPPINES: Lawmakers' attempt to change constitution draws church  protests

>By Maurice Malanes

[Ecumenical News International, Manila] Church groups have joined
thousands of demonstrators in the Makati area of Manila to denounce
plans by some lawmakers to amend the 1987 constitution in a way
perceived as a ploy to prolong the term of President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_109664_ENG_HTM.htm

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SRI LANKA: Protect democratic rights, bishop tells president

>By Anto Akkara

[Ecumenical News International, Chennai, India] The Anglican bishop of
Colombo has warned against harassment of civil rights activists and
those seeking to serve the displaced in Sri Lanka following the
government's victory over ethnic Tamil rebels.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_109678_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

>Awe and advocacy in a Tennessee forest

>By Phina Borgeson

[Episcopal News Service] When Congress acts to designate new National
Forest areas as wilderness, local economic, political and ecological
issues come into play. But what if spiritual values also influenced
advocacy and decision making? That is what a small group of
Episcopalians asked themselves as they set out on a wilderness retreat
held June 4 to 7 in the Upper Bald River Wilderness Study Area of the
Cherokee National Forest in southeast Tennessee, just south of Great
Smoky Mountains National Park.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_109680_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available
at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

June 14 - Second Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 6 - Year B

(RCL) 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13, Psalm 20, 2 Corinthians 5:6-17, Mark 4:26-34

>By the Rev. Dr. J. Barrington Bates

In today's gospel passage, Jesus speaks in parables - again. He does
that a lot. Jesus frequently uses this particular literary device to
get his point across. And in this passage from Mark's gospel, we hear
that Jesus preached only in parables, "as they were able to hear."

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_108515_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On June 11, 2009, the church calendar remembers St. Barnabas.

* 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 11, 1888, Maxwell J. Blacker, Anglican
priest and hymn translator, died in Westminster, England.

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>CATALYST

"Daily Devotions with William Barclay" from Westminster John Knox
Press, by William Barclay, 387 pages, paperback, c. 2008, $19.95

[Westminster John Knox Press] With more than 10 million copies in
print, the worldwide popularity of William Barclay's Daily Study Bible
remains unsurpassed. Collected here in a single volume are some of
William Barclay's finest writings to be found in his multivolume work,
each one carefully selected and arranged for daily meditation
throughout the year. These wonderful insights into the wisdom of the
New Testament are sure to draw readers closer to God and help lead
them to a clearer vision of God's will for them each day.

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