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>Episcopal News Service
>July 20, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Bulletin inserts for Aug. 1 recount history of William  
Wilberforce
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SAN DIEGO: Bishop outlines process for same-gender  
blessings
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - KANSAS: Newest congregation moves into new Spring
Hill home; membership triples
* WORLD REPORT - GERMANY: Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver keynote
speech to Lutherans
* PEOPLE - Julian Wachner named director of music and the arts for
Trinity Wall Street
* DAYBOOK - July 21: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Find Your Way Home - Words from
the Street, Wisdom from the Heart"

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>TOP STORIES

Bulletin inserts for Aug. 1 recount history of William Wilberforce

On July 30 each year the Episcopal Church remembers William
Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), a British statesman and evangelical
Anglican who used his position as a Member of Parliament from the
Yorkshire area to advocate for the abolition of the slave trade
throughout the British Empire. ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for Aug. 1
mark Wilberforce's contributions to ending slavery.

Inserts may be downloaded here:  
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

SAN DIEGO: Bishop outlines process for same-gender blessings

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop Jim Mathes of San Diego has sent a
letter to clergy of the diocese approving a process to celebrate
same-gender blessings.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123584_ENG_HTM.htm

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KANSAS: Newest congregation moves into new Spring Hill home; membership  triples

>By Melodie Woerman

[Episcopal News Service] The newest congregation in the Episcopal
Diocese of Kansas has moved into a new home in the town of Spring
Hill, and that move already has helped membership more than triple,
from nine to 29 active congregants.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123560_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

GERMANY: Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver keynote speech to Lutherans

>By Peter Kenny

[Ecumenical News International, Geneva] Lutherans from around the
world are converging on the German city of Stuttgart for the 11th
Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation, where on July 22 Archbishop
of Canterbury Rowan Williams will deliver the keynote address.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123559_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Julian Wachner named director of music and the arts for Trinity Wall  Street

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Composer and conductor Julian Wachner has
been named director of music and the arts for Trinity Wall Street, New
York, according to a July 19 press release from the parish in lower
Manhattan.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_123562_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On July 21, 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 21, 1997, Frank T. Griswold was elected
the 25th presiding bishop by 214 bishops gathered at historic Christ
Church in Philadelphia.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Find Your Way Home - Words from the Street, Wisdom from the Heart" by
The Women of Magdalene, paperback, 119 pages, c. 2008, $10.

[Abingdon Press] "I remember the first day I came home. There were
four beautiful women walking out onto the porch to say hello. This was
the home I'd almost forgotten about. Thank you, God, for leading me
home."

In this remarkable book, the women of Magdalene ask questions that all
of us ask, and they share their own joyous, painful, uplifting
answers. Inspired by the classic Benedictine Rule, the women have
written down 24 rules they live by in the Magdalene community, a place
of healing and grace.

Magdalene is a residential community of women who have a criminal
history of prostitution and drug abuse. The women live together in a
series of Magdalene homes, supporting themselves and each other
through the work of Thistle Farms, a bath and body-care business run
by those in the program.

"In Find Your Way Home there are 24 rules...designed to provoke people
into discovering that God loves you as you are right now. And that God
loves the possibility within you." -- Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori

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