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>Episcopal Life Daily
>November 20, 2009

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

>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill causes concern
and caution
* TOP STORY - Oregon diocese elects Michael Joseph Hanley as next bishop
* TOP STORY - USA Today ad welcomes all people to the Episcopal Church
* WORLD REPORT - CONGO: Bishop says those who speak out on violence face
maiming
* WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: Christ School in Nazareth expands its
service to Christian, Muslim students
* DAYBOOK - November 23: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Together for a Season: All-Age Seasonal Resources for
Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

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>TOP STORIES

Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill causes concern and caution

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] A proposed bill currently before the Ugandan
Parliament that, if passed, would extend prison sentences for
homosexuals and introduce the death penalty in certain cases has
generated outrage from a number of religious groups while some Anglican
leaders are being more cautious with their responses.

The Chicago Consultation on Nov. 20 called on four prominent church
leaders to raise their voices in opposition to the bill.

In letters sent to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, House of
Deputies President Bonnie Anderson, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan
Williams, and Archbishop Henri Orombi of Uganda, the consultation called
the bill "draconian anti-gay legislation" and urged the leaders to speak
out against it.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_117164_ENG_HTM.htm

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Oregon diocese elects Michael Joseph Hanley as next bishop

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Michael Joseph Hanley was elected Nov.
20 to be the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, pending the
required consents.

Hanley, 54, rector of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Roseville,
Minnesota, was elected on the second ballot out of a field of three
candidates. He received 146 votes of 198 cast in the lay order and 104
of 132 cast in the clergy order. An election on the second ballot
required 100 in the lay order and 67 in the clergy order. The results of
all the ballots are available here.

Hanley served churches in Oklahoma, Missouri and elsewhere in Minnesota
before being calling to Roseville in 1998. He is a three-time alternate
deputy to General Convention. Hanley holds a doctor of ministry degree
from Virginia Theological Seminary and a master of divinity degree from
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon in June
1981 and priest in April 1982. Hanley is married to Marla Martin Hanley,
associate academic dean at St. Catherine University in the Twin Cities.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_117157_ENG_HTM.htm

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USA Today ad welcomes all people to the Episcopal Church

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] An advertisement focusing on the welcoming
nature of the Episcopal Church that ran in the Nov. 20 edition of USA
Today is being made available to dioceses and congregations for local
media use.

The church's core beliefs and practices, including those related to
Christ, the Bible, women's ordination and relationships, are featured in
the ad on page 9A of the newspaper and on the Episcopal Church's
website, Anne Rudig, director of communication, said in a Nov. 20 news
release.

"We want to herald and share our welcoming message," she said.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_117096_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CONGO: Bishop says those who speak out on violence face maiming

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] A cleric who has in the past
spoken out against injustices emanating from violence that ravages
people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to regional
inter-ethnic violence has said he is now afraid to talk about it.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_117161_ENG_HTM.htm

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MIDDLE EAST: Christ School in Nazareth expands its service to Christian,
Muslim students

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem has
announced that one of its institutions, Christ School in Nazareth, is
expanding to serve the needs of the Palestinian youth in the city, at
the request of the Ministry of Education of Israel.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_117103_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On November 23, 2009, the church remembers Clement, Bishop of Rome.

* 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 23, 1585, Thomas Tallis, composer, died
in Greenwich, England. On November 23, 1621, poet and priest John Donne
was elected dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.

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>CATALYST

"Together for a Season: All-Age Seasonal Resources for Advent, Christmas
and Epiphany" from Church Publishing, Inc., by Gill Ambrose, Peter
Craig-Wild, Diane Craven & Mary Hawes, 180 pages, paperback, includes
CD-ROM c. 2008, $43

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Together for a Season is a practical
travelling companion for the journey through the Church year. Aimed at
all those planning and leading worship and those working with children
and adults in groups, it offers a rich array of creative material
designed to bring to life the seasonal liturgy of Advent, Christmas and
Epiphany.

Drawing on the material offered in Common Worship: Times and Seasons,
this book includes:

* An introduction to each of the seasons of Advent, Christmas and
Epiphany;
* Fully worked-out all-age services for key dates such as Advent Sunday,
Christmas, the Feast of the Epiphany and Candlemas;
* Creative suggestions for incorporating light, sound, images and other
multi-sensory elements into seasonal worship to encourage active
participation and involvement from the whole church;
* A wealth of additional practical resources for use with groups of
children and adults, at home and in outreach activities.

There are three pathways through the material: Advent wreath, Crib and
Jesse Tree. The book includes information on the origins of these
symbols and suggestions as to how they might become a unifying thread in
the worship of the whole congregation as they journey through the three
seasons.

Woven throughout are suggestions for how you can lift the liturgical
texts off the page to produce engaging, multi-sensory worship which
encourages the participation of the whole people of God.

The material is supported by a free CD-ROM, which includes:

- All the illustrations and templates in downloadable format

>- The text of services in adaptable format

- Full colour photographs to inspire your own worship

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