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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>June 29, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - EAU CLAIRE, FOND DU LAC: Dioceses call merger
resolution 'premature'
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - OHIO: Cyclists to ride cross-country for Episcopal
Relief and Development
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SAN JOAQUIN: 'All-new spirit' prevails as diocese
ordains first woman priest
* MISSION - Christian magicians say sense of mystery helps to deepen  faith
* DAYBOOK - June 30, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - In the Eye of the Storm - Swept to the Center by God

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

EAU CLAIRE, FOND DU LAC: Dioceses call merger resolution 'premature'

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal dioceses of Eau Claire and Fond
du Lac, located in the state of Wisconsin, will not ask the upcoming
meeting of General Convention for permission to merge.

A June 26 news release from the two dioceses said that presenting the
July 8-17 General Convention in Anaheim, California with a resolution
to merge, or junction, the two "would be premature."

Fond du Lac Bishop Russell Jacobus said June 29 in an interview with
Episcopal News Service that Eau Claire "is not at the point of being
able to do any serious discussions or planning."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_111513_ENG_HTM.htm

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OHIO: Cyclists to ride cross-country for Episcopal Relief and  Development

[Diocese of Ohio] A group of eight cyclists from the Diocese of Ohio
will be riding across the country, starting from Anaheim, California,
after the July 17 close of General Convention and ending at the
Episcopal Church Center in New York.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_111456_ENG_HTM.htm

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SAN JOAQUIN: 'All-new spirit' prevails as diocese ordains first woman  priest

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Tears, cheers, joy, applause and an "all-new
spirit" filled the packed Church of the Saviour in Hanford,
California, June 27 as the Rev. Suzanne Lynn Ward became the first
woman ordained a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin.

"This, my brothers and sisters, is a big deal day," said the Rt. Rev.
Edna Bavi "Nedi" Rivera, bishop suffragan of the Seattle-based Diocese
of Olympia, and provisional bishop for the Diocese of Eastern Oregon,
who was guest preacher.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_111509_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MISSION

Christian magicians say sense of mystery helps to deepen faith

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Jeff Martin, also known as "Jeff the Blond
Curly-Haired Magician" had a flattened soda can in the palm of one
hand, and the congregation at Grace Episcopal Church in Moreno Valley,
California, in the other.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_111511_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On June 30, 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 30, 1818, Edward J. Hopkins, composer, was
born at Westminster, London, England. In 1882, the Archbishop of
Canterbury awarded him an honorary Doctor of Music.

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>CATALYST

"In the Eye of the Storm - Swept to the Center by God" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Gene Robinson, Foreword by Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, 176 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Gene Robinson is bishop of the tiny, rural
Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, but he's at the center of a storm
of controversy raging in the Episcopal Church and throughout the
worldwide Anglican Communion involving homosexuality, the priesthood,
and the future of the Communion. This book offers an honest,
thoughtful portrait of Robinson, the faith that has informed his life,
and the controversy that continues to rock his Church.

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