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>Episcopal News Service
>March 11, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SPRINGFIELD: Bishop search process underway in
Illinois diocese
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - DALLAS: Special convention affirms Anglican
covenant, rejects same-gender liturgies
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - Diocesan conventions urged to look to the future
* MISSION - Holy Food and Groceries
* MISSION - Episcopal Church grants available for new campus ministries
* PEOPLE - Southwest professor appointed to Anglican Communion
Theological Education group
* DAYBOOK - March 12: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "All Souls' Rising"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

SPRINGFIELD: Bishop search process underway in Illinois diocese

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The deadline for receiving nominations for
the election of the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of
Springfield, Illinois, is April 12.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_120269_ENG_HTM.htm

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DALLAS: Special convention affirms Anglican covenant, rejects
same-gender liturgies

Gathering leaves some Episcopalians 'feeling torn'

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] A majority of delegates attending a special
March 6 convention meeting of the Diocese of Dallas at St. Michael and
All Angels Church endorsed the Anglican Covenant and rejected same
gender liturgies.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_120267_ENG_HTM.htm

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Diocesan conventions urged to look to the future

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The dioceses of New Jersey, West Tennessee
and the Virgin Islands met in their annual conventions during the
weekend of March 4-7, while the Diocese of Dallas held a special
convention meeting March 6 to discuss its response to the proposed
Anglican covenant.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_120247_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

>Holy Food and Groceries

>By Nicole Seiferth

[Episcopal News Service] Every week, the Food Pantry at St. Gregory of
Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco, California, gives away 11
tons of food from the altar in the middle of the sanctuary, to anyone
who shows up, no questions asked.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_120243_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal Church grants available for new campus ministries

>Proposal deadline is March 31

[Office of Communication] The Episcopal Church's Office for Young
Adult and Campus Ministries is accepting proposals from dioceses,
parishes or college/university campuses for grants to assist in the
start-up of new campus ministries or the re-start of dormant campus
ministries.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_120252_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Southwest professor appointed to Anglican Communion Theological  Education group

>TEAC2 commits to goals, priorities

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge has
been appointed to the steering committee of the Anglican Communion
Theological Education working party.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_120245_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On March 12, 2010, the church remembers Gregory the Great, 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 March 12, 1685, Anglican bishop and philosopher
George Berkeley was born at his family home, Dysart Castle, near
Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland.

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>EBAR PICK

"All Souls' Rising" from Random House, by Madison Smart Bell, 560
pages, paperback, c. 2004, $15.95

[Random House] In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy,
Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of
race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a
momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the
Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove
to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully
transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world's first Black
republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic
figure of Toussaint Louverture -- a loyal, literate slave and both a
devout Catholic and Vodouisant -- emerges as the man who will take the
merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary
war fueled by liberty and equality.

Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement
through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male,
female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail,
All Soul's Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror,
confusion, and triumph of revolution.

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