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>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 26, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Interfaith coalition applauds Obama commitment on immigration
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Archbishop urges government action on Sri Lanka
* WORLD REPORT - GREAT BRITAIN: Archbishop of Canterbury issues
statement for Armed Forces Day
* MISSION - Conference discusses evangelism in a globalized world
* MISSION - Churches help prom dreams come true
* PEOPLE - Michael Morgan chosen to lead Episcopal Preaching Foundation
* PEOPLE - Bexley Hall chooses new leaders
* ARTS - Presiding Bishop leads spiritual tour of Global Village
* DAYBOOK - June 29: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Claiming the Earth as Common Ground - The Ecological
Crisis through the Lens of Faith

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>TOP STORY

Interfaith coalition applauds Obama commitment on immigration

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The Interfaith Immigration Coalition June 26
applauded what it called U.S. President Barack Obama's commitment to
"advancing the conversation on immigration reform."

The group, a partnership of faith-based organizations that includes
the Episcopal Church and is committed to enacting comprehensive
immigration reform this year, issued a statement the day after Obama
met with key U.S. lawmakers. He told the gathering that getting a bill
passed would "require some heavy lifting."

"It's going to require a victory of practicality and common sense and
good policy making over short-term politics," the Associated Press
quoted Obama as saying. "That's what I'm committed to doing as
president."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_111356_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Archbishop urges government action on Sri Lanka

>By Leanne Larmondin

[Ecumenical News International, Toronto] The head of the Anglican
Church of Canada has urged the Canadian prime minister to lead
international efforts to protect the civil liberties of Sri Lankans
following a government victory over the rebel Tamil Tigers.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_111302_ENG_HTM.htm

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GREAT BRITAIN: Archbishop of Canterbury issues statement for Armed Forces
Day

[Lambeth Palace] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has
published a statement in support of Armed Forces Day, which is being
marked throughout Britain for the first time on June 27. Armed Forces
Day is intended as an opportunity for the nation to show its support
for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community: from
currently serving troops to service families, and from veterans to
recruits.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_111279_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

>Churches help prom dreams come true

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal Life] Girls typically view their high school proms with an
equal measure of excitement and nervous anticipation. But for many
families, affording the cost of a frothy dress puts prom season beyond
reach.

Some Episcopal parishes help teens who otherwise would have trouble
affording a prom dress.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_111292_ENG_HTM.htm

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Conference discusses evangelism in a globalized world

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Talk of evangelism, advocacy and
congregational development among Asian communities in the United
States in light of open-ended immigration and rapid globalization
dominated the discussion of the annual Episcopal Asiamerica Ministry
(EAM) Consultation conference.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_111360_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Michael Morgan chosen to lead Episcopal Preaching Foundation

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Dr. E.F. Michael Morgan will become
the executive director of the Episcopal Preaching Foundation on July
1.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_111358_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Bexley Hall chooses new leaders

[Bexley Hall] Robert E. Reber and the Rev. William Doubleday have been
chosen as the new president pro tem and interim dean, respectively, of
Bexley Hall Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_111359_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

Presiding Bishop leads spiritual tour of Global Village

>By Martha Baker

>[Episcopal Life]

>THE GOSPEL IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
>On the Road with Bishop Katharine
>By Katharine Jefferts Schori
>Morehouse Publishing, 184 pp., $20

In her latest book, Katharine Jefferts Schori serves as both Eleanor
and Franklin D. Roosevelt for us. Like FDR, she was elected our
president: that is, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. As such,
she has a mission, a focus. Like Eleanor, she is our eyes and ears,
going abroad and about when we can't, taking words and bringing back
gifts. She has compiled her words and gifts into a highly commendable
book, Gospel in the Global Village.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_111285_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On June 29, 2009, the church calendar remembers Saint Peter & Saint Paul.

* 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 29, 1685, Thomas Ken, hymnist, was
consecrated as Bishop of Bath and Wells.

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>CATALYST

"Claiming the Earth as Common Ground - The Ecological Crisis through
the Lens of Faith" from Skylight Paths Publishing, by Andrea
Cohen-Kiener, director of the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network,
foreword by the Rev. Sally Bingham, 176 pages, paperback, c. 2009,
$16.99

[Skylight Paths Publishing] Our planet is in trouble, and it will take
an amazingly large and powerful force to shift into a more sustainable
way of living. Cohen-Kiener poses that people of faith have the
numbers, the passion, and the mandate to do it -- and that nothing
else is strong enough to counterbalance "business as usual."

Claiming Earth as Common Ground gathers insights from ecology
coalitions, emerging theologies, and spiritual and environmental
activists to rally and inspire people from diverse faith traditions to
live up to the challenge. Questions for discussion and action are
included to help individuals and groups focus on specifics they can do
that, collectively, have the power to save the planet. Contributors
include:

* The Rev. Woody Bartlett, founder of Georgia Interfaith Power and Light
* The Rev. Tom Carr, National Council of Churches Working Group on the
Environment
* The Rev. Donna Schaper, senior minister, Judson Memorial Church, New
York City
* Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener, director of Interreligious Eco-Justice Network
* The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Religious Witness for the Earth

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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