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>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 15, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Southern Illinois bishops serving as committee members for
proposed Anglican province
* TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop accepts renunciations of Bane and  MacBurney
* TOP STORY - Scotland elects David Chillingworth as primus
* MISSION - Missionaries answer 'a clear call' to work in rural Kenya
* PEOPLE - Eugene E. Crommett, priest and architect, dies at 81
* PEOPLE - Seamen's Church Institute honors piracy hero Captain Richard
Phillips
* DAYBOOK - June 16: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Wonder and Other Life Skills

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>TOP STORIES

Southern Illinois bishops serving as committee members for proposed  Anglican
province

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Two Episcopal Church bishops, one active and  one
retired, are among the members of newly-announced committees of a  proposed
Anglican Church in North America, which is holding what it is calling  its
"inaugural provincial assembly" later this month.

The entity is proposed as an alternative Anglican Communion province in
North America for those Anglicans who disagree with the theological and
biblical interpretation stances of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican
Church of Canada. While the Anglican Church in North America has not  begun
the process of requesting recognition from the Anglican Communion, the
conservative Anglican leaders and former Episcopalians who make up the
GAFCON/FCA Primates' Council of the Global Anglican Future Conference  said
in April that they recognize the entity "as genuinely Anglican and
recommends that Anglican Provinces affirm full communion with the ACNA."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_110154_ENG_HTM.htm

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Presiding Bishop accepts renunciations of Bane and MacBurney

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal Life Online] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine  Jefferts
Schori announced on June 12 that she had accepted the renunciations of  David
C. Bane and Edward MacBurney.

Both men told the Presiding Bishop by letter in March that they intended  to
affiliate with another Anglican province, according to a release issued  by
Jefferts Schori's office.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_110153_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Scotland elects David Chillingworth as primus

[Scottish Episcopal Church] The Rt. Rev. David Chillingworth, bishop of  the
Diocese of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane since 2005, was elected  primus
of the Scottish Episcopal Church June 13 during its annual meeting of
General Synod. Chillingworth was the single nomination and his election  was
supported by all other six bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Chillingworth succeeds the Most Rev. Idris Jones, bishop of the Diocese  of
Glasgow and Galloway, who stepped down as primus on June 12 following  his
recent announcement to retire from the office of diocesan bishop.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_110050_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Missionaries answer 'a clear call' to work in rural Kenya

>By Lynn Dean Hunter

[Episcopal Life] For some, retirement means slowing down. For Dr.  William
"Gerry" and Nancy Hardison, both in their 70s, it means serving in a
hospital and various clinics; running a seminary; fostering a nursing
school; and overseeing an orphan-feeding program in a remote area of  western
Kenya. Known locally as "Professor Nan" and "Professor Gerry," the  retired
San Diego couple has worked as Episcopal volunteers for mission for  seven
years in Maseno, a town too small to be on the map.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_110052_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Eugene E. Crommett, priest and architect, dies at 81

>By ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Eugene E. Crommett, founding dean of  the
Episcopal Seminary of the Caribbean, died May 14 in Río Piedras,  Puerto
Rico. He was 81.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_110089_ENG_HTM.htm

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Seamen's Church Institute honors piracy hero Captain Richard Phillips

[SCI] Captain Richard Phillips, who was rescued by U.S. Navy Seals from
captivity among Somali pirates on Easter Day (April 12), has been  awarded
with the first Courage at Sea Award by the Seamen's Church Institute of  New
York and New Jersey (SCI).

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_110060_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On June 16, 2009, the church calendar remembers Joseph Butler, bishop of
Durham (1692-1752).

* 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 16, 1701, King William III issued a charter
establishing The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign  Parts
an organization able to send priests and schoolteachers to America "to  help
provide the church's ministry to the colonists." This organization is  now
known as USPG: Anglicans in World Mission.

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>CATALYST

"Wonder and Other Life Skills" from Cowley Publications, by B. Kathleen
Fannin, 221 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $16.95

[Cowley Publications] Wonder and Other Life Skills explores the human  need
for community, non-threatening ways to create community in multi-faith
environments, the implications of the statement that people are created  in
the image of God, connections among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,  and
the use of creative arts as tools to open the minds of young adults to
ingenuity, innovation and imagination to help them connect with the  Divine.

Subsequent chapters provide detailed outlines for eight spiritual  retreats
for young adults, itemized instructions for including creative arts
activities, and recommendations for use of this material by campus
ministers, youth pastors, and the church at large.

This combination of the theoretical and the practical makes this volume  a
necessity for those in youth ministry and for seminarians and students  of
pastoral theology.

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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