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>Episcopal News Service
>September 1, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - SAN JOAQUIN: Diocese sues for return of Stockton
church property
* WORLD REPORT - INDIA: Churches hail halting of permission for 
Vedanta's mining
* WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: Churches' leader condemns Hebron
killings of Israelis
* WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: Focus on human aspect of Holy Land
conflict, says churches' leader
* OPINION - The Rite Place: Whenever you talk to children about God, 
all listen
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - September 5, 2010 - Fifteenth Sunday After
Pentecost, Proper 18 - Year C
* DAYBOOK - September 2: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Mailbox Ministry - Greeting
Cards that Share the Faith"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

SAN JOAQUIN: Diocese sues for return of Stockton church property

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin on Aug.
30 filed a lawsuit against the former members of St. John the
Evangelist Church, Stockton, to seek return of the church property.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_124276_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

INDIA: Churches hail halting of permission for Vedanta's mining

>By Anto Akkara

[Ecumenical News International, Bangalore, India] Churches in India
have welcomed the government in Delhi's decision to withdraw its
permission for a mining project of the Vedanta group in the remote
tribal areas of eastern Orissa state that stirred controversy.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124274_ENG_HTM.htm

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MIDDLE EAST: Churches' leader condemns Hebron killings of Israelis

>By Judith Sudilovsky

[Ecumenical News International, Jerusalem] The head of the World
Council of Churches, who is on a visit to the Middle East, has
condemned the killings of four Israelis near Hebron in the West Bank.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124273_ENG_HTM.htm

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MIDDLE EAST: Focus on human aspect of Holy Land conflict, says 
churches' leader

>By Judith Sudilovsky

[Ecumenical News International, Jerusalem] Politicians need to focus
on the human face of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not discard
it in favor of their own political agendas, the head of the World
Council of Churches has said in the Middle East.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124275_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

The Rite Place: Whenever you talk to children about God, all listen

>By Shawn Schreiner

[Episcopal News Service] Shortly after passing the peace and starting
the Prayer of Thanksgiving over the bread and wine, two-year-old Chris
walked up to the child-size altar and said, "I want to help."

I watched and waited as Chris picked up the paten (plate) with the
bread and started breaking the bread into small pieces. He then took
his place by the chalice bearer (person with the wine) and placed the
bread in the receiver's hands and said, "The Body of Christ, the Bread
of Heaven." It was a holy moment and it was the moment when I knew
that the service we had started just a few months before was working.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_124277_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

September 5, 2010 - Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 18 - 
Year C

>By the Rev. David Somerville

(RCL) Jeremiah 18:1-11 and Psalm 139:1-5, 13-17 (Track 2: Deuteronomy
30:15-20 and Psalm 1); Philemon 1-21; Luke 14:25-33

Somebody once made the remark, "Friends are God's way of apologizing
to us for our families."

One might ask, How shall we see our way through such a curmudgeonly
statement into something edifying? However irritating the attitude,
there is a grain of truth in this grouchy remark.

Today's gospel reading is tough, but a tough gospel lesson is the only
kind that can really do what it is supposed to do - proclaim the
release of captives from a particularly formidable prison, the prison
of a destructive family system.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_124106_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On September 2, 2010, the church remembers The Martyrs of New Guinea.

* 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 September 2, 1752, Great Britain replaced the
inaccurate calendar created by Julius Caesar in 46 BC with the
Gregorian calendar.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Mailbox Ministry - Greeting Cards that Share the Faith" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Sue Banker, 115 pages, hardcover, c. 2009, $28

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Mailbox Ministry provides all the tools for
religious card-making: projects, patterns, step-by-step instructions,
and inspirational messages (including biblical verses, poems, and
inspirational phrases) for all occasions and audiences, adults as well
as children. It includes stories and tips for starting up and
maintaining a parish card ministry.
The book combines inspirational stories with hands-on strategies,
ideas, and how-to's. There are a variety of card designs from simple
to more elaborate, for crafters of all abilities and ages.

More than 50 separate greeting cards are fully illustrated in color
and photographs throughout the book. Also included are complete
materials lists, card-making tips, mailing guidelines, and a glossary.

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