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>Episcopal News Service
>July 23, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* MISSION - Anglican relief, development and advocacy alliance gains
momentum
* WORLD REPORT - UGANDA: Churches step up security after World Cup
bombings
* OPINION - A third way on the Anglican Covenant? By John Backman
* DAYBOOK - July 26: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Awakening the Creative Spirit -
Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Direction"

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>MISSION

Anglican relief, development and advocacy alliance gains momentum

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] An alliance intended to develop a more
coordinated and collaborative approach to relief, development and
advocacy work in the Anglican Communion is one step closer to becoming a
reality after a working group from across the Anglican Communion met
July 12-14 at Lambeth Palace, according to a press release from the
Anglican Communion Office.

Episcopal Relief & Development was represented at the meeting by Rob
Radtke, president, and Abagail Nelson, senior vice president for
programs.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123643_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>WORLD REPORT

UGANDA: Churches step up security after World Cup bombings

>By Fredrick Nzwili

[Ecumenical News International, Nairobi] Church leaders in Uganda are
asking Christians to produce an identity card and agree to security
searches before entering some church buildings for worship, after two
bomb attacks in the capital in mid-July in which more than 70 people
died.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_123644_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>A third way on the Anglican Covenant?

>By John Backman

[Episcopal News Service] Like most votes, it was a straight yes or no.
Would Albany's diocesan convention affirm the proposed Anglican Covenant
or not?

We had come to this point, according to our diocesan leadership, partly
because of Rowan Williams' suggestion that individual dioceses express
their wishes to their provincial churches. In response, our bishop put
forward a resolution in favor of the covenant, which passed
overwhelmingly in that up-or-down vote.

During the debate, however, I couldn't help but wonder if we had
overlooked better options -- like not yet.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_123647_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On July 26, 2010, the church remembers Saint James (transferred from
July 25).

* 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 26, 1833, Britain's House of Commons banned
slavery. The House of Commons banned the slave trade in 1807. When
William Wilberforce, who had spent most of his life crusading against
slavery, heard the news, he said, "Thank God I have lived to witness
[this] day." He died three days later.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Awakening the Creative Spirit - Bringing the Arts to Spiritual
Direction" by Christine Valters Paintner and Betsey Beckman, paperback,
256 pages, Feb 2010, $24.

[Church Publishing] This new resource is designed to help spiritual
directors and others use expressive arts in the context of spiritual
direction. It is the latest book in the unique SDI series, designed for
professional spiritual directors, but also useful for clergy,
therapists, and Christian formation specialists.

"We have been far too left-brained, verbal, and linear in our attempts
to transform and mature actual people -- intellectually, emotionally,
and spiritually. Here we have two women filling the tragic gap -- and
beautifully so! Spiritual direction is the growing edge of ministry
today and this excellent book will surely direct that growth." -- Father
Richard Rohr, O.F.M.

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