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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 22, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Protests cut short Zimbabwe PM's address at
Southwark Cathedral
* MISSION - Minnesota priest runs nonprofit funeral service that often
serves Native Americans
* DAYBOOK - June 23, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Gospel in the Global Village - Seeking God's Dream of Shalom

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Protests cut short Zimbabwe PM's address at Southwark Cathedral

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai
was forced to abandon his speech at Southwark Anglican Cathedral in
London on June 20 as ex-pats from the southern African country jeered
at his suggestion that they return to their homeland and help to
rebuild their ailing nation.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_111009_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Minnesota priest runs nonprofit funeral service that often serves
Native Americans

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Claudia Windal of Minneapolis
believes everyone, regardless of ability to pay, deserves a dignified
burial. So the Episcopal priest became a mortician to help make it
happen.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_110951_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On June 23, 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 23, 1988, Presiding Bishop Edmond L.
Browning established a new unit at the Episcopal Church Center known
as Refugee/Migration Ministries.

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>CATALYST

"Gospel in the Global Village - Seeking God's Dream of Shalom" from
Church Publishing, Inc., by Katharine Jefferts Schori, 184 pages,
paperback, c. 2009, $20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] In this second book by Presiding Bishop
Jefferts Schori, she explores issues and challenges of deep concern to
the Episcopal Church, the wider Body of Christ, and the world at
large. Arranged thematically, her essays reflect on the travel,
issues, people, and passions that have driven the first three years of
her episcopate. She places particular emphasis on the Millennium
Development Goals, plus the turmoil within the Anglican Communion and
the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Excerpt: "Beware of religious leaders who are unwilling to serve the
greater good, who insist that God loves only some, or who say that a
portion of humanity is not worthy of respect or dignity. That is a
hamstrung and limping version of the great dream of shalom, salaam, or
shanti (the Sanskrit word for peace.) As in the dream of Martin Luther
King, Jr., we seek a world in which all children can grow and play
together, unconcerned by those accidents of birth or life that others
see as all-defining. We seek a world where the poor hear good news,
the ill are healed and the hungry fed; where prisoners are forgiven,
set free, and restored to community; where no one studies war any
more. We seek a world in which the systems that maintain some in
servitude or slavery are abolished, where all have the minimal right
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But even more, we seek
a world where all have the right to full and abundant lives at peace
with their neighbors."

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