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

>Episcopal Life Daily
>August 28, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Memories, evidence of hurricanes' destruction still linger
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NAVAJOLAND: MacDonald to resign as assisting
bishop in September
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SAN JOAQUIN: Breakaway diocese asks California
appeals court to review ruling
* MISSION - Massachusetts Episcopalians commended for practical
eco-stewardship initiative
* PEOPLE - Betty Connelly, longtime lay leader, dies at 85
* OPINION - Four years later, Katrina still calls us to change our values
* ARTS - Episcopalian's work launches library exhibits
* DAYBOOK - August 31: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Your Faith, Your Life - An Invitation to The Episcopal Church

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>TOP STORIES

Memories, evidence of hurricanes' destruction still linger

Episcopalians join others to mark anniversaries of storms' passages

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Four years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita
devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast and one year after Gustav and Ike
wreaked havoc throughout the Caribbean before slamming into Texas, the
storms' impact is still being felt.

"That old normal of being the Episcopal Church with our doors locked,
being a church that existed for we who were in it will be no more.
That washed away with your refrigerator," Diocese of Louisiana Bishop
Charles Jenkins said during a homily just weeks after Katrina
decimated New Orleans and elsewhere. "Our new normal is a church
engaged, a church that is a servant church and a church that lives not
for itself alone but for all for whom Christ died."

That new normal continues four years later. New church buildings are
being built and consecrated, ministries are growing and advocacy for
the storms' victims continues. At the same time, people are still
suffering and some communities have been changed forever.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_114060_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

SAN JOAQUIN: Breakaway diocese asks California appeals court to review
ruling

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Representatives for the breakaway Anglican
Diocese of San Joaquin (http://www.sjoaquin.net) have asked a
California appellate court to review a July lower court decision
affirming Bishop Jerry Lamb as the leader of the Episcopal Church in
the Central California Valley diocese.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114067_ENG_HTM.htm

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NAVAJOLAND: MacDonald to resign as assisting bishop in September

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] As anticipated, Bishop Mark MacDonald,
national indigenous bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada, has
informed Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of his intention
to resign officially as assisting bishop of Navajoland Area Mission in
September.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_114014_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Massachusetts Episcopalians commended for practical eco-stewardship
initiative

>By Phina Borgeson

[Episcopal News Service] When ecologist Daniel Goleman addressed
Episcopalians gathered at Grace Church, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts,
on August 27, he commended their efforts in cooperative buying of low
impact parish supplies. "You can become national models for what any
group can do to turn this [environmental] disaster around," he said.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_114012_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Betty Connelly, longtime lay leader, dies at 85

(The Episcopal News, Los Angeles) -- Betty Connelly, a veteran lay
leader in the Diocese of Los Angeles and the wider Episcopal Church,
died August 27 in Newport Beach, California, where she was
hospitalized last week after a stroke. She was 85.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_114065_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

Four years later, Katrina still calls us to change our values

>By Charles Jenkins

[Episcopal News Service] The generosity of our nation and the world in
response to our time of having been brought so low is gratefully
acknowledged.

Like the Good Samaritan who left silver with the innkeeper to care for
the man robbed and beaten on the Jericho Road, we in Louisiana have
known the mercy of others in our time of need. Some would say, the
season for such generosity has passed. Indeed, many of us are well on
the way to recovery and that which yet needs be healed will be done by
God, perhaps through the hands of doctors and nurses. Indeed, I find
in my own soul a wound so deep that healing seems possible only by
grace.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_114010_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

>Episcopalian's work launches library exhibits

New Jersey artist finds monotypes a meditative medium

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal Life] This summer, visitors to the public library in the
historic town of Cranbury, New Jersey, could find more than books on
its shelves. From the end of each of the stacks hung one of a series
of framed monotypes created by a local artist, Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_114057_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On August 31, 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 August 31, 1159, Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, the
only English pope in history, died in Anagni, Italy.

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>CATALYST

"Your Faith, Your Life - An Invitation to The Episcopal Church" from
Church Publishing, Inc., by Jenifer Gamber, with Bill Lewellis, 202
pages, paperback, c. 2009, $15

[Church Publishing, Inc.] An everything-you-need-to-know guide for
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This book will carefully present The Episcopal Church's language of
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community as an ongoing process of transformation and providing a way
to engage in that process.

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