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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>August 10, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Churches for Middle East Peace express 'grave concern'
over East Jerusalem eviction
* TOP STORY - Resolutions concerning ordination process, same-sex
blessings are topic of August 16 bulletin insert
* PEOPLE - Retired Massachusetts Bishop John B. Coburn, former House
of Deputies president, dies at 94
* PEOPLE - Marion Josiah Hatchett, theologian, author and priest, dies  at 82
* OPINION - Budd Schulberg preached a powerful sermon in 'On the  Waterfront'
* DAYBOOK - August 11: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The Prayer Book Guide to Christian Education

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>TOP STORIES

Churches for Middle East Peace express 'grave concern' over East
Jerusalem eviction

>ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) sent a
letter August 7 to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that
expressed concern over the Israeli government's eviction of
Palestinians from East Jerusalem and called for the their immediate
return.

"This population substitution is clearly designed to continue efforts
to expand Israeli presence and control over Palestinian areas of East
Jerusalem. This action took place in the sensitive Sheikh Jarrah
section of East Jerusalem close to the 1949 Armistice Line or Green
Line. A home eviction order at this time and in this place is not a
mere matter of local law enforcement, but raises significant
international political issues," the coalition wrote. "It contradicts
terms of the Road Map brokered by the United States and agreed to by
both Israeli and Palestinian representatives to refrain from
activities that could undermine progress towards a peace agreement. It
also undercuts U.S. efforts to create an environment for starting
talks for a comprehensive peace agreement and is therefore harmful to
both the Palestinians and Israelis hopes for peace."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_113135_ENG_HTM.htm

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Resolutions concerning ordination process, same-sex blessings are
topic of August 16 bulletin insert

The fourth and final in Episcopal Life Weekly's series of bulletin
inserts reporting on General Convention outlines two resolutions
passed by the triennial meeting that affirm the openness of The
Episcopal Church's ordination process (D025) and authorize wider
discretion for bishops to authorize the blessing of same-sex unions in
states in which such unions are legal (C056). The inserts also briefly
outline reactions to the resolutions from Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori, House of Deputies president, the House of Bishops,
and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Inserts may be downloaded here:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Retired Massachusetts Bishop John B. Coburn, former House of Deputies
president, dies at 94

>By ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. John B. Coburn, retired13th
bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts, former president of the House
of Deputies and former dean of the Episcopal Theological School in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, died August 8 in Bedford, Massachusetts. He
was 94.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_113172_ENG_HTM.htm

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Marion Josiah Hatchett, theologian, author and priest, dies at 82

[Sewanee School of Theology] The Rev. Marion Josiah Hatchett, who
served with distinction as professor of liturgy and church music for
30 years from 1969 to 1999 at the School of Theology of the University
of the South in Sewanee, died August 7 in Sewanee, Tennessee. He was
82.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_113171_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Budd Schulberg preached a powerful sermon in 'On the Waterfront'

>By Timothy B. Safford

[Episcopal News Service] Old movie buffs had reason to mourn Budd
Shulberg this past week. He wrote the screenplay for the 1954 Academy
Award Best Picture, On the Waterfront. Besides being a movie about mob
corruption on the docks of New Jersey, On the Waterfront preached a
powerful sermon - especially pertinent to an Episcopal Church
determined to focus on mission -- on how we are to live; not hidden in
the church, but alive as the church in the world.

Early in the movie, kindly, disinterested Father Barry, played by Karl
Malden, pronounces last rites over the longshoreman Joey, who had just
been thrown off the roof of his Hoboken row house by a couple of goons
because he was going to testify to the crime commission about the mob
corrupting his local union.

"Time and faith are great healers," Father Barry says to Joey's
enraged sister, Edie, but she'll have none of it. "Time and faith?"
she cries. "My brother's dead and you stand there talking about time
and faith?"

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_113140_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On August 11, 2009, the church remembers Clare, Abbess at Assisi
(1194-1253).

* 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 August 11, 1890, John Henry Newman died. Newman
was ordained an Anglican priest in 1824. He later helped lead the
Oxford Movement, aiming to restore the Church of England to its
high-church principles. In 1843 he left the church and became a Roman
Catholic.

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>CATALYST

"The Prayer Book Guide to Christian Education" from Church Publishing,
Inc., edited by Sharon Ely Pearson & Robyn Szoke, 328 pages,
paperback, c. 2009, $24

[Church Publishing, Inc.] While this one-volume guide is especially
useful for Christian educators, showing them how to teach week by week
according to the ethos and tradition of the Episcopal Church, it also
provides a valuable and useful reference tool for all church leaders
and members in connecting Christian faith to daily life.

This new guide to Christian education and formation is based on the
Book of Common Prayer, the cornerstone of Anglican liturgy and
theology.  Keyed to the Revised Common Lectionary, all activities and
lessons are structured on the seasons and lessons for Years A, B, and
C. The guide stresses the major themes of baptismal theology and shows
how teachers, parents, and children can live the liturgical cycle in
Christian formation ministries at church and at home.

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