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>Episcopal News Service
>July 21, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Presiding bishop to be featured in live webcast July 28
* TOP STORY - Tutu 'saddened' by Obama's decision to cut HIV/AIDS  spending
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - CALIFORNIA: 'Sacred Cocktails' offers a way into
church via popular nightspot
* WORLD REPORT - PAKISTAN: Two Christians facing blasphemy charges
shot dead outside court
* OPINION - The gospel according to Twitter
* VIDEO - Pakistan Bishop Samuel Azariah speaks about Anglican
partnerships, Christian persecution
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - July 25, 2010 - Ninth Sunday After
Pentecost, Proper 12 - Year C
* DAYBOOK - July 22: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Breaking Through the Stained
Glass Ceiling: Women Religious Leaders in Their Own Words"
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Good Influence Teaching the
Wisdom of Adulthood"

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>TOP STORIES

Presiding bishop to be featured in live webcast July 28
Event kicks off series of conversations

>ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Anglican Communion, the environment,
domestic poverty, immigration and Haiti will be among the topics
featured in a July 28 webcast, "A Conversation with Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori," according to a July 21 press release for
the church Office of Public Affairs.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_123593_ENG_HTM.htm

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Tutu 'saddened' by Obama's decision to cut HIV/AIDS spending

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu
has called it "deeply distressing" that President Barack Obama has
decided "to spend less than he promised to treat AIDS patients in
Africa."

Tutu, writing in the New York Times on July 20, said he is "saddened"
that Obama has chosen to cut U.S. contributions to the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an international financing
institution that has committed $19.3 billion in 144 countries to
support large-scale prevention, treatment and care programs against
the three diseases.

Tutu described the fund as "the premier model for results-driven aid."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_123586_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

CALIFORNIA: 'Sacred Cocktails' offers a way into church via popular  nightspot

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] For the past year, bartenders and bishops,
the committed and the curious alike have sampled "Sacred Cocktails," a
ministry started by the Rev. Tommy Dillon, rector of St. Aidan's
Church in San Francisco in the Episcopal Diocese of California.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123590_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

PAKISTAN: Two Christians facing blasphemy charges shot dead outside  court

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] Two Christian brothers in Pakistan were shot
dead by unidentified gunmen on July 19 outside a district court of law
in Faisalabad moments after they'd attended a trial hearing for
charges of blasphemy.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123585_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Pakistan Bishop Samuel Azariah speaks about Anglican partnerships,
Christian persecution

[Episcopal News Service] The Rt. Rev. Samuel Azariah, bishop of
Raiwand and moderator of the Church of Pakistan, speaks with ENS
during a visit to New York about the importance of global Anglican
partnerships and the ongoing persecution of the Christian minority in
Pakistan.

Video:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm#ooid=NmdGtmMTpQIMs4MJ0 
IJtKGaqxyE34svd,F0dXFrMTqWgiaLLSSqttVhx6xOiK90b_

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

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>OPINION

>The gospel according to Twitter

>By Tom Ehrich

[Religion News Service] Transparency is everything now. Disconcerting
for some, delightful for others. Learn to live in it. Better yet, try
it. (http://twitter.com)

(That paragraph, by the way, fits the 140-character length limit of a
Tweet. What's a "Tweet"? Well, read on.)

As with most things technological, social media are about tools --
Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Yammer, LinkedIn and others -- but they
are actually more than tools. It's a mindset, an approach to living
and working, made possible by the Internet's omnipresence and easy
accessibility.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_123588_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>CALENDAR

A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan
conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available
at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

July 25, 2010 - Ninth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 12 - Year C

>By the Rev. Steve Kelsey

(RCL) Hosea 1:2-10 and Psalm 85 (Track 2: Genesis 18:20-32 and Psalm
138); Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19); Luke 11:1-13

[Sermons That Work] There was a little girl who lived on a street
right next to a cemetery. Her school was straight across, on the other
side of the cemetery. That cemetery frightened all the children who
lived on her street. In fact, they took great pains to avoid the
cemetery, walking all the way around it to get to the school, and then
all the way around it to come home.

But not so our little girl. Every morning she would just head straight
through the cemetery, and at the end of the day she would walk back,
straight through, to come home, usually whistling all the way.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_123153_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On July 22, 2010, the church remembers Saint Mary Magdalene.

* 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 22, 1604, King James I wrote to Bishop
Bancroft that he had "appointed certain learned men to the number of
four and fifty for the translating of the Bible." This translation
later became the King James version of the Bible.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women Religious Leaders
in Their Own Words" edited by Maureen E. Fiedler, foreword by Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, paperback, 240 pages, June 2010, $22.

[Church Publishing] This lively and inspiring collection of interviews
features the voices of some of the most important women religious
figures of our time, addressing the theme of women's emerging
leadership within a variety of faith traditions.

"Surely one of the defining breakthroughs of the last century has been
the ascendancy of women into places of leadership, not least in the
various religious traditions around the world. Maureen Fiedler's new
book not only documents this advance, but gives voice to a number of
such faithful and courageous women 'in their own words.' This is a
fascinating and important book." - The Rt. Rev. Christopher Epting,
former deputy for ecumenical and interreligious relations, The
Episcopal Church

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"Good Influence Teaching the Wisdom of Adulthood" by Daniel R.
Heischman, paperback, 146 pages, Sept 2009, $16.

[Church Publishing] Young people desperately seek to develop an inner
core that will not only rescue them in times of distress, but also
help them to define and shape moral convictions, passions, and
interests in building a better world.  To find this inner coherence,
they turn to their parents and teachers - the adults who are supposed
to know them better than they know themselves.  But these same adults
are often driven and desperate to stay young, and are unclear how to
achieve the wisdom and maturity of an elder to put the needs of their
children and students above their own.

Young people do not want us to become part of "their" world, according
to author Dan Heischman, but they invite us - and need us - to be
different... to be adults, for them.

This book will help adults understand what young people are searching
for, describe how to have a lasting impact on your children's or
student's development, teach credible models of adulthood, and guide
adults towards achieving the passion and wisdom for spiritual
mentorship.

Drawing on thirty years of experience with parents, teachers, and
students, the author uses stories and sound principles not so much to
help bridge the generation gap, but to use the natural difference in
maturity as a basis and guideline for more effective communication and
connection.

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