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>Episcopal News Service
>July 26, 2010

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

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Bulletin inserts for Aug. 8 mark launch of 'Holy Women,  Holy Men'
* TOP STORY - Standing Committee decides Episcopal Church's
'separation would inhibit dialogue'
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - WEST TEXAS: Episcopalians join massive effort to
help the homeless in San Antonio
* DAYBOOK - July 27: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Your Faith Your Life - An
Invitation to the Episcopal Church"

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>TOP STORIES

Bulletin inserts for Aug. 8 mark launch of 'Holy Women, Holy Men'

[Episcopal News Service] "Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the
Saints," the new book of commemorations on the Episcopal Church
calendar (succeeding Lesser Feasts and Fasts) was recently published
for trial use by Church Publishing Inc.

The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music has launched a one-year
review period, during which Episcopalians are encouraged to comment on
the new book, which revises many of the entries from Lesser Feasts and
Fasts and adds more than 100 new commemorations.

ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for Aug. 8 provide information about the
new volume and the survey, and begin a list of the new names
provisionally added to the calendar, to be continued in occasional
future inserts.

Bulletin inserts may be downloaded at

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm

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Standing Committee decides Episcopal Church's 'separation would
inhibit dialogue'

>By ENS Staff

[Episcopal News Service -- London, England] The Standing Committee of
the Anglican Communion has agreed that separating the Episcopal Church
from the rest of the Anglican Communion "would inhibit dialogue and
... would therefore be unhelpful," according to a July 26 bulletin
from the Anglican Communion Office.

The proposal for separation came on July 24 from Dato Stanley Isaacs,
a Standing Committee member from the Province of South East Asia, but
was not passed "and the group agreed to defer further discussion until
progress on Continuing Indaba project had been considered," the
release said.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_123674_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

WEST TEXAS: Episcopalians join massive effort to help the homeless in
San Antonio

>By Mike Patterson

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians are joining the effort to help
the homeless at the innovative and newly opened Haven for Hope
facility in San Antonio, Texas.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_123671_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On July 27, 2010, the church remembers William Reed Huntington.

* 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 27, 1901, B.F.  (Brooke Foss) Westcott,
English New Testament textual scholar and Bishop of Durham, died.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Your Faith Your Life - An Invitation to the Episcopal Church" by
Jenifer Gamber with Bill Lewellis, paperback, 208 pages, April 2009,
$16.

[Church Publishing] This "everything-you-need-to-know" guide for
newcomers to the Episcopal Church is written and designed to provide
accessible and user-friendly reading, with an easy-going look and
style that's packed full of substance.

The book carefully unpacks the Episcopal Church's language of worship,
theology, church structure, and sacraments, so that newcomers will
have the vocabulary and framework to share their beliefs and
practices, explore the Bible, understand prayer and discern their own
ministry within the church.

Drawing upon the success of an earlier book written for teens (My
Faith, My Life - A Teen's Guide to the Episcopal Church), the new book
retains the same unique presentation, inviting readers to consider
their relationship with God and the church community as an ongoing
process of transformation, while providing ways to engage in that
process.

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