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>Episcopal News Service
>July 9, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - GEORGIA: Appeals court upholds property ruling
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: General Synod set for lengthy debate on
women bishops legislation
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Anglican church wants constitution vote  postponed
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Petero Sabune on Sudan and next year's referendum
* DAYBOOK - July 12: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing,
Raising the Dead"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

GEORGIA: Appeals court upholds property ruling

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The Georgia Court of Appeals has affirmed a
lower court ruling that the real property and other assets of Christ
Church Episcopal in Savannah are held in trust for the Episcopal
Diocese of Georgia and the Episcopal Church.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123397_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: General Synod set for lengthy debate on women bishops  legislation

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The Church of England may be days away from
passing legislation that could enable women to become bishops.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123393_ENG_HTM.htm

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KENYA: Anglican church wants constitution vote postponed

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] The Anglican Church of Kenya
has called on the East African nation's government to reschedule a
referendum on a proposed constitution, set for August 4, in the
interests of peace in the country.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123396_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Petero Sabune on Sudan and next year's referendum

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Canon Petero Sabune, the Episcopal
Church's Africa partnership officer, talks about the need for prayer,
study and action ahead of the January 2011 referendum in Sudan, when
southerners will decide whether to secede from the north or remain a
unified country.

Video:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm#ooid=NmdGtmMTpQIMs4MJ0 
IJtKGaqxyE34svd,FsaGlqMTqzM67CkCuYhS32YJ9t0SilG9

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 12, 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 12, 2000, the 73rd General Convention
adopted the new name of Episcopal Relief & Development for the former
Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead" by Sara Miles,
hardcover, 192 pages, Jan 2010, $21.95.

[Jossey-Bass] "I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles,
"knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a
literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of
doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the
world."

In this new book, Sara Miles tells what happened when she decided to
follow the flesh and blood Jesus by doing something real. For everyone
afraid to feed hungry strangers, love the unlovable, or go to dark
places to bless and heal, she offers hope. She holds out the promise
of a God who gave a bunch of housewives and fishermen authority to
forgive sins and raise the dead, and who continues to call us to
action. And she tells, in vivid, heartbreakingly honest stories, how
the ordinary people around her are transformed by taking up God's work
in the world.

Sara Miles offers a fresh, fully embodied faith that sweeps away the
anxious formulas of religion to reveal the scandalous power of eating
with sinners, embracing the unclean, and loving the wrong people.
Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead is her inspiring book
for undomesticated Christians who still believe, as she writes, "that
Jesus has given us the power to be Jesus."

To order, please visit Episcopal Books and Resources online at
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org, call 800-903-5544, or visit your
local Episcopal bookstore.