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>Episcopal News Service
>May 13, 2010

Episcopal News Service is available at  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Bishops to go ahead with Arizona meeting despite
immigration law outcry
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - ARIZONA: Episcopalians assess implications of
immigration law
* WORLD REPORT - NEW ZEALAND: Winston Halapua becomes archbishop
* MISSION - Sudan peace, stability focus of AFRECS fifth annual meeting  in June
* PEOPLE - Sewanee announces honorary degree recipients
* DAYBOOK - May 14: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Mandela's Way - Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and  Courage"

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>TOP STORIES

Bishops to go ahead with Arizona meeting despite immigration law outcry

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church's House of Bishops will
meet Sept. 15-21 in Phoenix for its regular fall meeting as planned,
including an optional pre-meeting trip to the U.S.-Mexican border,
despite public outcry over Arizona's recent enactment of the nation's
toughest immigration law and calls for a boycott.

"It's an opportunity to be educated, to be informed and to make a
public statement about solidarity with people that are victims in
this, and there are victims on both sides, which is important to
emphasize," said Arizona Bishop Kirk Smith in a telephone interview.
"We will accomplish a lot more by being here, learning, hearing and
responding about it and standing in solidarity with people suffering
instead of taking the easy way out by saying 'Let's go meet someplace
else.'"

The Arizona law aims to identify, prosecute and deport illegal
immigrants. Smith has joined state ecumenical leaders in protest of
the law and has voiced support for court challenges to it.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_122199_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

ARIZONA: Episcopalians assess implications of immigration law

Tough measure makes the 'already desperate more desperate and
fearful,' priest says

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Canon Carmen B. Guerrero remembers
living with the fear of her mother, a third-generation Mexican
American, "who would never go close to the border because she was
afraid of getting deported, although she had been born here."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122210_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

NEW ZEALAND: Winston Halapua becomes archbishop

[Anglican Taonga] Bishop Winston Halapua was elected May 12 to serve
as the next bishop of Polynesia -- and therefore as one of the three
archbishops of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and
Polynesia.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122194_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Sudan peace, stability focus of AFRECS fifth annual meeting in June

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Promoting peace and stability in Sudan's
dramatically changing political landscape and making that country's
peace an American foreign policy priority will top the agenda for the
fifth annual conference of the American Friends of the Episcopal
Church of Sudan.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_122200_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

>Sewanee announces honorary degree recipients

[Episcopal News Service] Sewanee: The University of the South, an
Episcopal Church-affiliated seminary in Tennessee, will present six
honorary degrees during ceremonies May 14-15 marking the end of the
2009-10 academic year.

Honorary degrees at the May 14 School of Theology commencement will be
presented to the Rt. Rev. Jean Zaché Duracin, bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of Haiti; the Rev. Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, an Episcopal
priest and founder of the Geranium Farm, an institute promoting
spiritual formation; and the Rev. Joseph N. Green Jr, an Episcopal
priest and civil rights advocate who made history in 1965 when he
became the first African American to graduate from the University of
the South.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122197_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 14, 2010...

* 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 May 14, 1759, Anglican evangelical and hymnist
John Berridge preached his first outdoor sermon.

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>EBAR PICK

"Mandela's Way - Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage" by
Richard Stengel, Preface by Nelson Mandela, hardcover, 256 pages, c.
2010, $23.

[Random House] We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela,
who recently celebrated his ninety-first birthday, is the closest
thing the world has to a secular saint. He liberated a country from a
system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed
in a way that had never been done before.

Now Richard Stengel, the editor of Time magazine, has distilled
countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen
essential life lessons. For nearly three years, including the critical
period when Mandela moved South Africa toward the first democratic
elections in its history, Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his
autobiography and traveled with him everywhere. Eating with him,
watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to
know all the different sides of this complex man and became a
cherished friend and colleague.

In Mandela's Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which "the
grandfather of South Africa" was tested and shares the wisdom he
learned. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable stories -- of
Mandela's childhood as the protégé of a tribal king, of his early  days
as a freedom fighter, of the twenty-seven-year imprisonment that could
not break him, and of his new and fulfilling marriage at the age of
eighty.

This compact book is profoundly inspiring. It captures the spirit of
this extraordinary man -- warrior, martyr, husband, statesman, and
moral leader -- and spurs us to look within ourselves, reconsider the
things we take for granted, and contemplate the legacy we'll leave
behind.

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
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