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>Episcopal News Service
>July 15, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Order of Holy Cross to sell Mt.
Calvary retreat center property
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - VIRGINIA: Diocese to welcome Ted Gulick as new
assistant bishop
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop hosts event in support of local
interfaith relations
* WORLD REPORT - NIGERIA: Homosexuality and pedophilia must be
condemned, says primate
* OPINION - Lord have mercy, by Tom Ehrich
* DAYBOOK - July 16: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Failure of Nerve - Leadership in
the Age of Quick Fix"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: Order of Holy Cross to sell Mt. Calvary retreat center  property

>Guest ministry continues at St. Mary's

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The Order of the Holy Cross has decided to
sell the Santa Barbara property where the Mount Calvary Retreat House
and Monastery was located, Prior Nicholas Radelmiller said July 14.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123496_ENG_HTM.htm

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VIRGINIA: Diocese to welcome Ted Gulick as new assistant bishop

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Retiring Diocese of Kentucky Bishop Edwin
"Ted" F. Gulick Jr. will become assistant bishop in the Diocese of
Virginia next year.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123487_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop hosts event in support of local interfaith relations

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is
hosting an event at Lambeth Palace on July 15 that brings together 50
imams and clergy from 25 local areas "to encourage and strengthen
local interfaith relationships," according to a press release.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123478_ENG_HTM.htm

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NIGERIA: Homosexuality and pedophilia must be condemned, says primate

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Anglican Archbishop Nicholas Okoh of Nigeria
told reporters at a July 14 press conference that "same-sex marriage,
pedophilia and all sexual pervasions [sic] should be roundly
condemned."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123483_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Lord have mercy

>By Tom Ehrich

[Religion News Service] Basketball superstar LeBron James will be
wearing a Miami Heat jersey next season, not the New York Knicks' blue
and orange. OK, no big deal.

Meanwhile, the big deal here in New York was firefighters risking heat
exhaustion while battling a five-alarm house fire in Queens on a
100-degree day.

True superstars move toward need and danger, not toward piles of cash.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_123479_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 16, 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 16, 1986, Los Angeles Bishop Robert C.  Rusack died.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Failure of Nerve - Leadership in the Age of Quick Fix" by Edwin H.
Friedman, paperback, 272 pages, c. 2007, $28.

[Church Publishing] Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's
insights into leadership are more urgently needed than ever. He was
the first to tell us that all organizations have personalities, like
families, and to apply the insights of family therapy to churches and
synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and teachers.

Failure of Nerve is essential reading for all leaders, be they parents
or presidents, corporate executives or educators, religious superiors
or coaches, healers or generals, managers or clergy. Friedman's
insights about our regressed, "seatbelt society," oriented toward
safety rather than adventure, help explain the sabotage that leaders
constantly face today. Suspicious of the "quick fixes" and instant
solutions that sweep through our culture only to give way to the next
fad, he argues for strength and self-differentiation as the marks of
true leadership. His formula for success is more maturity, not more
data; stamina, not technique; and personal responsibility, not
empathy.

This book was unfinished at the time of Friedman's death, and
originally published in a limited edition. This new edition makes his
life-changing insights and challenges available to a new generation of
readers.

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