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>Episcopal Life Daily
>November 4, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - MAINE: Bishop 'grieved' over defeat of same-gender  marriage law
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Bishop encourages commuters to get to work on  prayer
* MISSION - Anglican-Old Catholic International Coordinating Council  issues communiqué
* ARTS - Navigating the divide between Christianity and Islam
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - November 8, 2009 - Twenty-Third Sunday After  Pentecost, Proper 27 - Year B
* DAYBOOK - November 5: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus - Advent and Christmas with  Charles Wesley

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

MAINE: Bishop 'grieved' over defeat of same-gender marriage law

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of Maine Bishop Stephen T.  Lane said Nov. 3 that he joins the "many Episcopalians [who] are deeply  grieved" by Maine voters' rejection of that state's same-gender marriage  law.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_116392_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Bishop encourages commuters to get to work on prayer

[Church of England] The Church of England has published a book of  prayers and reflections to help frazzled commuters prepare for the  winter ahead -- and then unwind on the way home.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_116362_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Anglican-Old Catholic International Coordinating Council issues  communiqué

[Episcopal News Service] The Anglican-Old Catholic International  Coordinating Council (AOCICC) met in the International Study Centre,  Canterbury, England, from 26 to 29 October 2009. The council welcomed  the Rev. Carola von Wrangel from the Convocation of Episcopal Churches  in Europe as a new member.

Full communiqué:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_116382_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>ARTS

Navigating the divide between Christianity and Islam

>By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal News Service] Since an early age, Paul-Gordon Chandler has  lived his life in the Arab Islamic world, in western and sub-Saharan  Africa and in the Middle East. As a teenager, then a development worker,  with religious publishing groups and now as an American Episcopal  priest, he has experienced daily the rich and varied culture of Islamic  societies.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_116363_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_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

November 8, 2009 - Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 27 - Year  B

(RCL) Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 and Psalm 127 (Track 2: 1 Kings 17:8-16 and  Psalm 146); Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44

>By the Very Rev. Anthony F.M. Clavier

No, this isn't a sermon about tithing, so you may take your hands off  your wallets.

Our television screens bombard us with offers of deals. No doubt your  spam contains similar offers. From time to time we read about elderly  people who have been duped out of their funds by unscrupulous people  offering deals. There are even crooks who recently played with peoples'  health by offering spurious swine-flu remedies. So we build walls around  our lives, taking care not to be "had."

Full reflection:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_116056_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On November 5, 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 November 5, 1977, Oscar Clark Carr, Jr., a church  and human rights leader died of cancer.

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>CATALYST

"Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus - Advent and Christmas with Charles  Wesley" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Paul Wesley Chilcote, 112  pages, paperback, c. 2007, $13

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Oxford's fabled streets echo with the names of  such key figures in English history as Edmund Halley, John Wycliffe, and  John and Charles Wesley. Of more recent times are those of C. S. Lewis,  J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other members of the renowned literary circle  to which they belonged, the Inklings.

What would it be like to walk this medieval city's narrow lanes in the  company of such giants of Christian literature, to visit Magdalen  College, where Lewis and Tolkien read aloud their works-in-progress to  their friends, or the Eagle and Child pub, the Inklings' favorite  gathering place?

The lavish photography of this book will introduce you to the  fascinating world of the Inklings, matching their words to the places  where these friends discussed -- and argued over -- theology,  philosophy, ancient Norse myth, and Old Icelandic, while writing stories  that were to become classics of the faith.

The Inklings of Oxford will deepen your knowledge of and appreciation  for this unique set of personalities. The book also features a helpful  map section for taking walking tours of Oxford University and its  environs.

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