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>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 17, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - World Refugee Day turns spotlight on millions of
displaced people worldwide
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - ALBANY: Convention pledges loyalty to church, but
disputes role of General Convention
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - June 21, 2009 - Third Sunday After Pentecost,
Proper 7 - Year B
* DAYBOOK - June 18: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Creating a World Without Poverty

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>TOP STORIES

World Refugee Day turns spotlight on millions of displaced people  worldwide

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] In 1988, Hsar Say, then a 20-year-old
university student, joined the pro-democracy movement in opposition to
the Burma Socialist Programme Party, an action that set in motion a
20-year journey that would eventually lead him to Louisville,
Kentucky.

"The students and the people asked for democracy, but the one party in
Burma didn't accept it," Say said in a telephone interview. "The
military shut down the movement, arresting people, some went to jail,
some disappeared, many students fled to Bangladesh, to the
Thailand-Burma border. I was one of the people who fled to the
border."

Say lived along the Burmese border with Thailand for 10 years, working
as a teacher and moving on average every two years, often during the
dry season "when the fighting came." He married on the border, and in
1997 Say, his wife and their baby crossed into Thailand.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_110603_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

ALBANY: Convention pledges loyalty to church, but disputes role of
General Convention

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Albany recently
reaffirmed its membership in the Episcopal Church while at the same
time saying that the General Convention cannot tell it or any other
diocese what to do.

While reaffirming the diocese's "loyal membership in the Episcopal
Church," a resolution passed during the diocese's annual convention,
held June 5-7 in Speculator, New York, also agreed with a recent
statement released by 15 active and retired Episcopal Church bishops
who are Communion Partners, a group of Episcopalians who have said
they will remain in the church despite disagreeing with some of its
policies and theological stances. The statement claimed that the
Episcopal Church's constitution "lacks any language making General
Convention the 'supreme' or 'highest' authority, making its decisions
'final' or making dioceses 'subordinate' to any other office or body."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_110605_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_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 21, 2009 - Third Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 7 - Year B

(RCL) 1 Samuel 17: (1a, 4-11, 19-23), 32-49 and Psalm 9:9-20; or 1
Samuel 17:57-18:5, 10-16 and Psalm 133; or Job 38:1-11 and Psalm
107:1-3, 23-32; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41

>By the Rev. Dr. J. Barry Vaughn

"Have you considered my servant Job?" God asked the Adversary in the
first chapter of Job. And that was the fateful question, the catalyst,
the push that set in motion a chain of events that would leave Job
near despair.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_109078_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On June 18, 2009, the church calendar remembers Bernard Mizeki,
catechist and martyr in Rhodesia (c. 1861-1896).

* 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 18, 1988, Frederick H. Borsch, former dean
of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), was consecrated
bishop of Los Angeles. On June 18, 2006, Katharine Jefferts Schori was
elected 26th Presiding Bishop at the 75th General Convention.

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>CATALYST

"Creating a World Without Poverty" from Perseus Books Group, by
Mohammad Yunus, 261 pages, hardcover, c. 2007, $26

[Perseus Books Group] In the last two decades, free markets have swept
the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change.
But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and
poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in
which people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.
In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including
the spiritual, the social, and the altruistic.  Welcome to the world
of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is
applied to today's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing
the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a
World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest
examples of social businesses, including Yunus's own Grameen Bank.  It
reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution
that is already under way-and in the worldwide effort to eliminate
poverty by unleashing the productive energy of ever human being.

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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