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>Episcopal News Service
>May 27, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Haiti cathedral's murals could be resurrected, experts say
* PEOPLE - Daniel Green named priest-in-charge at St. John's,
Petaluma, in Northern California
* PEOPLE - Bishop-elect James 'Jay' Magness completes successful consent  
process
* PEOPLE - Sarah Dylan Breuer appointed executive director of Province I
* OPINION - A lesson from the Gulf oil spill: We are all connected
* DAYBOOK - May 28: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Jerusalem Testament: Palestinian Christians Speak,  1988-2008"

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>TOP STORIES

Haiti cathedral's murals could be resurrected, experts say

Trinity Sunday celebration will mark diocese's second collection
toward rebuilding

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Some of the world-famous murals that adorned
the walls of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Holy Trinity cathedral
prior to the Jan. 12 earthquake, and gave Haitians of all faiths a
vision of their place in the stories of the Bible, could be preserved
and possibly even restored.

That's the assessment of a team of art experts who have surveyed
artworks and other cultural artifacts that were damaged in the
magnitiude-7 quake. However, they said, decisions about the murals'
fate need to be made soon.

"The murals are running out of time," said Corine Wegener, a curator
at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and president of the U.S.
Committee of the Blue Shield, which is dedicated to the protection of
cultural property worldwide during armed conflict. A retired Army
officer, she was posted to Iraq just after the looting of the Iraqi
National Museum.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_122550_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Daniel Green named priest-in-charge at St. John's, Petaluma, Northern  
California

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Barry Beisner of the Diocese of
Northern California has appointed the Rev. Daniel Currie Green
priest-in-charge at St. John's Episcopal Church in Petaluma, according
to a letter posted on the church website.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122548_ENG_HTM.htm

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Bishop-elect James 'Jay' Magness completes successful consent process

Consecration set for June 19 in Washington National Cathedral

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's
office announced May 27 that Bishop-elect James "Jay" Magness has
received the required number of consents from bishops with
jurisdiction and diocesan standing committees to his ordination and
consecration as bishop suffragan for federal ministries.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122544_ENG_HTM.htm

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Sarah Dylan Breuer appointed executive director of Province I

[Episcopal News Service] Sarah Dylan Breuer has been appointed to
serve as executive director of the Episcopal Church's Province I,
effective July 1.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122509_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

A lesson from the Gulf oil spill: We are all connected

>By Katharine Jefferts Schori

[Huffington Post] The original peoples of the North American continent
understand that we are all connected, and that harm to one part of the
sacred circle of life harms the whole. Scientists, both the ecological
and physical sorts, know the same reality, expressed in different
terms. The Abrahamic traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam)
also charge human beings with care for the whole of creation, because
it is God's good gift to humanity. Another way of saying this is that
we are all connected and there is no escape; our common future depends
on how we care for the rest of the natural world, not just the square
feet of soil we may call "our own." We breathe the same air, our food
comes from the same ground and seas, and the water we have to share
cycles through the same airshed, watershed, and terra firma.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_122508_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 28, 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 28, 1533, English reformer Thomas Cranmer,
archbishop of Canterbury, declared King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne
Boleyn valid, having earlier approved the king's divorce of Catherine
of Aragon.

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>EBAR PICK

"Jerusalem Testament: Palestinian Christians Speak, 1988-2008" by
Melanie A. May, Paperback, 190 pages, c. 2010, $22.

[Eerdmans Publishing] This book bears powerful witness to the gospel
of Jesus Christ and to the faith and hope of Palestinian Christians
living in the Occupied Territories. Melanie May introduces and
presents the remarkable public statements made by the Jerusalem Heads
of Churches over the course of two decades, from 1988 to 2008. Through
Jerusalem Testament the voices of Palestinian pastors speak out on
behalf of their own people, calling Christians worldwide to a new
covenant with their brothers and sisters in and around Jerusalem.

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