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>Episcopal News Service
>May 19, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: Christ Church Preservation Trust gets
grant to renovate neighborhood house
* WORLD REPORT - INDIA: Churches concerned about clerics' alleged
involvement in crimes
* PEOPLE - Nashotah House announces honorary degree recipients
* PEOPLE - Archbishop Tutu to address bid teams for 2014 Parliament of
World Religions
* OPINION - Religious communities allied for safe ports
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - May 23, 2010 - Day of Pentecost - Year C
* DAYBOOK - May 20: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Book of Common Prayer with Hymnal"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PENNSYLVANIA: Christ Church Preservation Trust gets grant to renovate
neighborhood house

[Episcopal News Service] A $329,500 grant from the William Penn
Foundation will provide for the restoration and repurposing of the
Christ Church Neighborhood House in Philadelphia's Old City.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122326_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

INDIA: Churches concerned about clerics' alleged involvement in crimes

>By Anto Akkara

[Ecumenical News International, Thrissur, India] Church leaders in south
India say the alleged involvement of a number of clerics in criminal
activities shows corruption needs urgent attention in the church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122327_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Archbishop Tutu to address bid teams for 2014 Parliament of World
Religions

[Parliament of World Religions] Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond
Tutu will deliver a special address on Thursday, May 20 at 1 p.m. CST to
the four city bid teams for the 2014 Parliament of the World's
Religions, welcoming them to the bid process and emphasizing the impact
that hosting the parliament can have on their cities.

Tutu will appear via a live video stream from Cape Town, South Africa,
which hosted the 1999 Parliament of the World Religions.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122329_ENG_HTM.htm
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Nashotah House announces honorary degree recipients

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Anglican Bishop and theologian Michael
Nazir-Ali is due to receive an honorary degree May 20 from Nashotah
House during the Episcopal church-affiliated seminary's 165th
commencement.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122310_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Religious communities allied for safe ports

>By Richard W. Gillett

[Episcopal News Service] A new national labor-green alliance, with
strong support from the religious community, in early May carried its
campaign for clean and safe ports to Washington, D.C., to testify at a
congressional hearing called to address environmental conditions at the
nation's major ports and the alleged abuses of port drivers.

The Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports is an alliance of environmental,
labor, faith-based and community organizations that has developed
nationally over the last four to five years out of local concerns for
air pollution and worker exploitation at the ports of Los Angeles,
Oakland, New York, New Jersey and Seattle. Coalition members from the
Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Teamsters, and
community- and faith-based organizations including Clergy and Laity
United for Economic Justice Los Angeles, East Bay Alliance for a
Sustainable Economy in Oakland, Green Faith in New Brunswick, New
Jersey, and the Church Council of Greater Seattle have come together to
work on this environmental, economic and worker justice issue.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_122328_ENG_HTM.htm

More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

>May 23, 2010 - Day of Pentecost - Year C

(RCL) Acts 2:1-21 or Genesis 11:1-9; Psalm 104:25-35, 37; Romans 8:14-17
or Acts 2:1-21; John 14:8-17, (25-27)

>By the Rev. Rob Gieselmann

[Sermons That Work] The promise of Pentecost is baptism. "The one coming
after me," the Baptist promised, "will baptize you with the Holy Spirit
and with fire."

This Pentecostal promise speaks not of some infantile christening, the
dribbling of water across the crown, water wiped away with delicate
embroidered cloths. Nor does this promise speak of the lighting of a
candle with safe flame, or the rubbing of an oily cross on the forehead.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_122031_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On May 20, 2010, the church remembers Alcuin, deacon, and Abbot of
Tours.

* 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 20, 1754, Columbia University was chartered
as King's College in New York City under the Church of England.

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>EBAR PICK

"Book of Common Prayer with Hymnal" combination in black or red leather,
softcover, 6.5 x 9 inches, $98.

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