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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>August 26, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - DALLAS: Priest/stockbroker suspended amid  allegations
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - TEXAS: Grants enable Austin clinic to serve 4,000
more needy patients
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - August 30 - Thirteenth Sunday After
Pentecost, Proper 17 - Year B
* DAYBOOK - August 27: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - More Dumb Things Churches Do -- And New Strategies for
Avoiding Them

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

DALLAS: Priest/stockbroker suspended amid allegations

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Suffragan Paul Lambert of the
Episcopal Diocese of Dallas said August 26 that the Rev. William
Warnky, a priest-stockbroker, has been suspended from both vocations
-- at least for the time being.

Warnky served as a part-time non-stipendiary priest at Good Samaritan
Episcopal Church and also worked for First Canterbury Securities, a
northeast Dallas firm that offered investment opportunities ranging
from corporate stocks to church bonds. Raymond Jennison, the firm's
owner, is also a Dallas-area priest.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_113956_ENG_HTM.htm

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TEXAS: Grants enable Austin clinic to serve 4,000 more needy patients

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission in
southwest Austin has received grants from St. Luke's Episcopal Health
Charities and other agencies that will enable it to serve 4,000 more
underinsured and uninsured working poor patients.

Melinda Rodriguez, director of development for the Wallace Mallory
Clinic, said August 26 that the approximately $509,000 in grants will
mean the 20-year-old clinic can finally add staff positions -- a
full-time resident doctor, nurse and medical assistant -- of its own.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_113955_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

August 30 - Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 17 - Year B

Song of Solomon 2:8-13; Psalm 45:1-2, 7-10; James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8,
14-15, 21-23

>By the Rev. Steve Kelsey

[Sermons That Work] Love received is love to be shared.

Life is short ... and we do not have too much time to gladden the
hearts of those who travel the way with us. So let us be swift to love
and make haste to be kind, and the blessing of God will be with us.

In the early chapters of Genesis, God says to Abraham: "I will bless
you, that you may be a blessing to others."

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_113011_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On August 27, 2009, the church remembers Thomas Gallaudet with Henry
Winter Syle.

* 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 27, 1952, The Community of the Holy
Spirit was formally instituted when the Sisters' vows were transferred
from the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine.

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>CATALYST

"More Dumb Things Churches Do -- And New Strategies for Avoiding Them"
from Church Publishing, Inc., by Philip Wiehe and Linda McFadden, 151
pages, paperback, c. 2009, $16

[Church Publishing, Inc.] This book focuses on problems in parishes --
from stewardship to worship to strategic planning -- and then examines
new ideas and solutions. The approach is positive and practical; the
tone is conversational and engaging.

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