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>Episcopal News Service
>January 7, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - CONNECTICUT: Agency awards three grants for
international church publishing projects
* PEOPLE - Sewanee chooses new president, vice chancellor
* DAYBOOK - January 8: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - The New Conspirators - Creating the Future One Mustard
Seed at a Time

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

CONNECTICUT: Agency awards three grants for international church
publishing projects

[Diocese of Connecticut] The Church Missions Publishing Co. (CMPC), a
granting agency of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, recently
awarded three grants totaling $16,000.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_118288_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Sewanee chooses new president, vice chancellor

[Episcopal News Service] The Board of Trustees of the University of
the South has appointed John M. McCardell Jr., president emeritus of
Middlebury College, to be the school's 16th president and vice
chancellor.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_118280_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On January 8, 2010, the church remembers Harriett Bedell, deaconess
and missionary.

* 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 January 8, 1854, Thomas Fielding Scott was
consecrated the first missionary bishop of the Oregon and Washington
Territories. On January 8, 1977, Beverly Messenger-Harris was ordained
a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York.
Messenger-Harris was the first female rector of an Episcopal parish.

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>CATALYST

"The New Conspirators - Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a
Time" from InterVarsity Press, by Tom Sine, 304 pages, paperback, c.
2008, $15

[InterVarsity Press] "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed,"
Jesus says in the Gospel of Matthew, "nothing will be impossible for
you."

That sounds good, but does it work in a world where seeds are
genetically altered by an impatient few and hard to come by for
countless others? In a world where the gulf between the very rich and
the profoundly poor is constantly growing, can a mustard-seed faith
make any difference? And can such a little bit of faith be sustained
in a world whose future is so uncertain on so many fronts?

Tom Sine says yes, and he has the audacity to try to prove it in his
latest book. In The New Conspirators, Tom surveys the landscape of
creative Christianity, where streams of renewal are flowing freely
from diverse sources:

The emerging church Contemporary monastic movements The missional
church The mosaic movement

Individuals and communities of faith are coalescing in, and drawing
energy from, these four streams to retrofit the church as it leads,
serves and gives witness to the kingdom of God in the turbulent times
facing us. Read the book and you'll want to-and be prepared to-join
God's conspiracy to create a better future.

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