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>Episcopal News Service
>July 1, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - EL CAMINO REAL: Listening is key to ongoing
partnerships with Gloucester, Western Tanganyika
* WORLD REPORT - BURUNDI: Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi to serve as
primate for five more years
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Jamaica-born woman priest Rose Hudson-Wilkin
appointed House of Commons chaplain
* DAYBOOK - July 2: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "God with Skin On - Finding God's Love in Human  Relationships"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

EL CAMINO REAL: Listening is key to ongoing partnerships with
Gloucester, Western Tanganyika

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves had weathered some
predictable challenges since partnering the Episcopal Diocese of El
Camino Real in central California with dioceses in England and
Tanzania, but she didn't anticipate a recent development: what happens
when one of the partner bishops retires?

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123269_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

BURUNDI: Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi to serve as primate for five more  years

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi has been chosen
unanimously by his fellow bishops in the Anglican Church of Burundi to
serve as primate for a further five years.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123267_ENG_HTM.htm

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ENGLAND: Jamaica-born woman priest Rose Hudson-Wilkin appointed House
of Commons chaplain

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin has been
appointed as the new speaker's chaplain in the U.K. Parliament's House
of Commons, becoming the first black woman to hold the position.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123265_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 2, 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 July 2, 1489, Book of Common Prayer author and
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was born at Aslockton,
Nottinghamshire. On July 2, 1978, Cornelius Joshua Wilson, a priest of
West Indian descent, was elected bishop of Costa Rica on the first
ballot at a special diocesan convention.

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>EBAR PICK

"God with Skin On - Finding God's Love in Human Relationships" by Anne
Robertson, paperback, 160 pages, c. April 2009, $18.

[Church Publishing] You may be the only Jesus some people ever meet!
Based on the Great Commandment, this book examines relationships
common to us all -- those of intimacy, authority, rivalry, and
otherness -- and shows how learning to love within those relationships
affects our relationship with God.

Supported by biblical examples and references to psychological
studies, this book examines all our basic relationships -- family
relationships, relationships with authority figures, friends and
enemies, companion animals, even virtual relationships -- to show how
learning to love within those relationships is truly divine work.

In a culture where relationships are often divisive and exploitative,
and where the call to love enemies often seems impractical, this book
offers the reminder that every relationship provides an opportunity to
love God in the other and to be "God with skin on" for that person in
return.

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
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local Episcopal bookstore.