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>Episcopal News Service
>January 15, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - EPPN urges prayer, giving and advocacy for Haiti
* TOP STORY - Caught in Haiti earthquake, Episcopal Church
missionaries recount survival
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - WASHINGTON: National cathedral to hold Haiti
prayer service; Presiding Bishop to preach
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Former Anglican leader sparks row with
comments on migrants
* WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: Church group supports women's ordination
as pastors
* MISSION - Apartheid ended; the need didn't
* DAYBOOK - January 18: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Love God, Heal Earth

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>TOP STORIES

EPPN urges prayer, giving and advocacy for Haiti

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The effort to assist victims of the Haiti
earthquake should be expressed through prayer, financial support and
advocacy, the Episcopal Public Policy Network has urged in an alert
issued Jan. 15.

"Like hundreds of millions of Americans and other people around the
world, my heart has broken as I've seen the images of the devastation
brought to Haiti by this week's earthquake," said Alexander
Baumgarten, director of government relations for the Episcopal Church,
in the alert.

"The most immediate thing that Americans can do to be helpful is to
donate to organizations such as Episcopal Relief & Development that
are assisting with the immediate relief, rescue and recovery effort,"
he told ENS.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118513_ENG_HTM.htm

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>'I was certain I was going to die'

Caught in Haiti earthquake, Episcopal Church missionaries recount  survival

>By Lynette Wilson and Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Two Episcopal Church missionaries in
Port-au-Prince say that they feared for their lives during the Jan. 12
earthquake and in its aftermath that shook the Haitian capital.

When the magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit just before 5 p.m. local time,
the Rev. Canon Oge Beauvoir and his wife Serrette were in their
Port-au-Prince home, he told Nathan Brockman of Trinity Wall Street in
a Jan. 15 telephone call.

"For the first time I was certain I faced death," Beauvoir told
Brockman. "I was certain we were going to die."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_118499_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

WASHINGTON: National cathedral to hold Haiti prayer service; Presiding
Bishop to preach

[Episcopal News Service] A service of prayer for the victims,
families, and survivors of the Haiti earthquake will be held at 6 p.m.
on Sunday, Jan. 17, at Washington National Cathedral.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_118509_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Former Anglican leader sparks row with comments on migrants

>By Trevor Grundy

[Ecumenical News International - London] A former Archbishop of
Canterbury, Lord (George) Carey, is at the center of a religious and
political debate after writing a newspaper article in which he urged
limits on immigration to Britain and said migrants needed to recognize
the country's Christian heritage.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_118506_ENG_HTM.htm

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MIDDLE EAST: Church group supports women's ordination as pastors

>By Stephen Brown

[Ecumenical News International] Representatives of Middle Eastern
Anglican, Lutheran and Reformed churches, meeting in Harissa, Lebanon,
have voted unanimously in favor of the ordination of women as pastors.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_118508_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

>Apartheid ended; the need didn't

Missionary continues medical and school ministries in South Africa

>By Sharon Sheridan

[Episcopal News Service] Some ministries prove irresistible.

Nearly three decades ago, Dr. Chris McConnachie began taking breaks
from his private orthopedic practice in Hendersonville, North
Carolina, for short mission trips to an impoverished area of South
Africa.

"Then in 1981, we went out for a three-month session with our
children," recalled his wife, Jenny. "About a year later, Chris took a
sabbatical for a year [to South Africa]. I think it was just during
that year we really decided we had to get on or get off ... Chris
realized that he couldn't really make much of a difference in just
short trips."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_118510_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On January 18, 2010, the church remembers the Confession of Saint Peter.

* 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 18, 1993, Herbert Thompson, Jr. was
formally installed as the eighth diocesan bishop of Southern Ohio.

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>CATALYST

"Love God, Heal Earth" from St. Lynn's Press, by the Rev. Canon Sally
G. Bingham, 227 pages, paperback, c. 2009, $17.99

[St. Lynn's Press] Foremost religious leaders from diverse faith
communities respond to the most controversial question of our time:
Can we save the earth?  The answer could hinge on the phenomenon of
the fast-growing interfaith religious environmental movement. The
author makes the case for environmental stewardship that cuts across
old divisions of faith and politics.  She presents 20 fellow religious
leaders and eminent scholars (from rabbis to evangelicals to
Catholics, Muslims and Buddhists) each contributing an original
essay-chapter, with personal stories of awakening to the urgent need
for environmental awareness and action. From all parts of the
religious and political spectrum, they come together to tell why
caring for the earth is a spiritual mandate, giving chapter and verse
and offering plans of action that go beyond the walls of religious
congregations and out into the broader community.

>Essays and contributors are:

"The Landscape Tradition: A Broader Vision for Ecotheology," by
Stephen Downs "Globalization and Ecology," by Christine Burke,
I.B.V.M.
"For Your Immortal Spirit Is in All Things': The Holy Spirit in
Creation," by Denis Edwards
"Enfleshing the Human: An Earth-Revealing, Earth-Healing Christology,"
by Duncan Reid
"God's Shattering Otherness: The Trinity and Earth's Healing," by
Patricia Fox, R.S.M.
"Embracing Unloveliness: Exploring Theology from the Dungheap," by
Lorna Hallahan
"Up Close and Personal: In the End, Matter Matters," by Anthony Lowes
"The Relationship Quilt: Feminism and the Healing of Nature," by Lucy  Larkin
"A Timely Reminder: Humanity and Ecology in the Light of Christian
Hope," by Gregory Brett
"Ecotheology as a Plea for Place," by Phillip Tolliday
"Situating Humanity: Theological Anthropology in Context of the
Ecological Crisis," by James McEvoy
"Bioethics, Ecology, and Theology," by Andrew Dutney

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