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>Episcopal News Service
>March 18, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.
Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Latino coalition aims to expand voice, create network to  
strengthen ministry
* TOP STORY - Effort to rebuild Port-au-Prince cathedral gets a guide
* TOP STORY - Joy and sadness greet news of Glasspool's ordination  consent
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - CONNECTICUT: Judge says Groton church property  belongs to 
diocese, Episcopal Church
* WORLD REPORT - EL SALVADOR: IARCA primate, two others survive gunfire
* MISSION - Trinity television and new media win awards
* MISSION - Liturgical programming set for Good Friday, Easter Day
* DAYBOOK - March 19: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Eternal Life, A New Vision - Beyond Religion, Beyond  Theism, 
Beyond Heaven and Hell"
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>TOP STORIES

Latino coalition aims to expand voice, create network to strengthen  ministry

'This is the time': Group to hold inaugural assembly in September in  Arizona

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Leadership development, service, evangelism,  peace 
and justice advocacy, immigration, Twitter and Facebook are just  some of the 
topics up for discussion Sept. 15-18 when the first assembly  of Coalicin de 
Episcopales Latinos gathers in Arizona.

The newly created Coalition of Episcopal Latinos or CEL aims to expand  the 
Latino/Hispanic voice and establish a collaborative network  throughout the 
Episcopal Church, according to the Rev. Canon Carmen B.  Guerrero, canon for 
peace and justice in the Diocese of Arizona.

"We're incorporated; we've got members joining everyday," said Guerrero,  a 
founding board member, during a recent telephone interview from her  Phoenix 
office

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_120943_ENG_HTM.htm

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Effort to rebuild Port-au-Prince cathedral gets a guide

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] A coordinated plan to rebuild the Episcopal  Diocese 
of Haiti's world-famous Cathdrale Sainte Trinit (Holy Trinity  Cathedral) in 
Port-au-Prince is getting underway.

Haiti Bishop Jean Zach Duracin has asked Convocation of Episcopal  Churches in 
Europe Bishop Pierre Whalon to guide what is expected to be  a multi-step, 
multi-year and multi-million-dollar effort.

It is hoped that the cathedral project can be a model of the sort of  
cooperation that Haiti has said it wants to promote among its partners  as the 
numerically largest diocese of the Episcopal Church develops and  implements 
its plan to rebuild following the devastating magnitude-7  earthquake of Jan. 
12.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_120937_ENG_HTM.htm

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Joy and sadness greet news of Glasspool's ordination consent

Lambeth Palace calls the decision 'regrettable,' says further  consultation now 
needed

>By Pat McCaughan and Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians across the church celebrated the  March 
17 news that Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop-elect Mary Douglas  Glasspool had 
received the required number of consents from standing  committees and bishops 
with jurisdiction to her ordination and  consecration as bishop.

Still others lamented the decision and predicted that the news,  announced by 
the presiding bishop's office, would further strain  relationships within the 
Anglican Communion.

Glasspool was one of two openly gay candidates on the Los Angeles slate  but 
maintained that her sexual orientation was "not an issue" in the  election. She 
is the second openly gay partnered priest to be elected a  bishop in the 
Episcopal Church. The first was Bishop Gene Robinson of  New Hampshire, who was 
elected in 2003.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_120935_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

CONNECTICUT: Judge says Groton church property belongs to diocese,  Episcopal 
Church

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] A state superior court judge ruled March 15  that the 
real and personal property of Bishop Seabury Episcopal Church  in Groton, 
Connecticut, is held in trust for the Diocese of Connecticut  and the Episcopal 
Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_120940_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

EL SALVADOR: IARCA primate, two others survive gunfire

[Episcopal News Service] The Anglican Episcopal Church of El Salvador  March 18 
publicly denounced the attempted murder of Bishop Martin  Barahona and two 
others, according to a news release issued by the  church.

The incident happened in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, on March 17 when an  unknown 
man approached and fired upon Barahona, a church musician and  Francis Martnez, 
the bishop's driver, according to news reports.  Barahona was unharmed, but 
Martinez was hit in the stomach and his arm  was broken by one of the gunshots. 
He is in "grave but stable  condition," said the Rev. Lee Alison Crawford, 
rector of Trinity Church  in Rutland, Vermont and a member of the Episcopal 
Church's Executive  Council, in a telephone interview with ENS.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_120953_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

>Trinity television and new media win awards

[Trinity Wall Street, New York] Trinity Wall Street's television and new  media 
division was recently awarded two CINE Golden Eagle Awards for  videos produced 
for the series "God's Mission in the Economic Crisis."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_120944_ENG_HTM.htm

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Liturgical programming set for Good Friday, Easter Day

[Office of Communication] Two seasonal liturgical programs -- the  penitential 
Stations of the Cross on Good Friday and a live festive  Easter Day service -- 
will be offered online by the Episcopal Church's  Office of Communication.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_120942_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On March 19, 2010, the church remembers Saint Joseph.

* 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 19, 1263, Hugh of St. Cher, a Dominican  friar who 
made the first significant concordance of the Bible, died. On  March 19, 1825, 
John J. Husband, English-born American music teacher and  sacred music 
chorister, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Husband  taught music in 
Philadelphia and worked as the clerk at St. Paul's  Episcopal Church.

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>EBAR PICK

"Eternal Life, A New Vision - Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond  Heaven 
and Hell" by John Shelby Spong, 288 pages, hardcover, c. 2009,  $24.99.

[HarperCollins] Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, New York Times  bestselling 
author and controversial religious leader John Shelby Spong  continues to 
challenge traditional Christian theology in Eternal Life: A  New Vision. In 
this remarkable spiritual autobiography about his  lifelong struggle with the 
questions of God and death, he reveals how he  ultimately came to believe in 
eternal life.

Bishop John Shelby Spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious, Why  
Christianity Must Change or Die, Sins of Scripture, and many other  books, is 
known for his controversial ideas and fighting for minority  rights. In Eternal 
Life: A New Vision, a remarkable spiritual journey  about his lifelong struggle 
with the questions of God and death, he  reveals how he came to a new 
conviction about eternal life.

Always compelling and controversial, Spong, the leading Christian  liberal and 
pioneer for human rights, wrestles with the question that  all of us will 
ultimately face. In his final book, Spong takes us beyond  religion and even 
beyond Christianity until he arrives at the  affirmation that the fully 
realized human life empties into and  participates in the eternity of God. The 
pathway into God turns out to  be both a pathway into ourselves and a doorway 
into eternal life. To  Job's question "If a man (or a woman) dies, will he (or 
she) live  again?" he gives his answer as a ringing yes!

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