[ENS] Pennsylvania Bishop Bennison should have the wisdom to resign, Bonnie Anderson says / LOUISIAN

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>Episcopal News Service
>September 2, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Pennsylvania Bishop Bennison should have the wisdom to
resign, Bonnie Anderson says
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOUISIANA: Jericho Road to bear new fruit after
winning orchard in national contest
* WORLD REPORT - SOUTH AFRICA: Bishops warn media law would restrict
press freedom
* OPINION - Glenn Beck's God is not my God, By Patricia Templeton
* DAYBOOK - September 3: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Governance and Ministry -
Rethinking Board Leadership"

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>TOP STORIES

Pennsylvania Bishop Bennison should have the wisdom to resign, Bonnie
Anderson says

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] President of the House of Deputies Bonnie
Anderson has said that she wishes the Rt. Rev. Charles Bennison would
have the "wisdom and generosity of spirit to resign" as bishop of
Pennsylvania.

A review court verdict enabled Bennison to return to work although it
agreed that he failed to respond appropriately when he had reason to
believe that his brother, John Bennison, was engaged in sexual
misconduct with a young girl in his California parish some 30 years
ago.

"As bishop he is more likely to deepen divisions and discredit the
church than he is to bring healing or advance our common mission,"
Anderson said in a Sept. 1 letter written to five witnesses who had
testified at Bennison's trial.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_124308_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOUISIANA: Jericho Road to bear new fruit after winning orchard in
national contest

>By Sharon Sheridan

[Episcopal News Service] The Jericho Road Episcopal Housing
Initiative's efforts to help New Orleanians continue to revitalize
their community five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area
soon will bear new fruit, thanks to supporters new and old whose
online votes won the organization a fruit orchard.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_124310_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

SOUTH AFRICA: Bishops warn media law would restrict press freedom

>By Munyaradzi Makoni

[Ecumenical News International, Cape Town] Anglican and Roman Catholic
bishops in South Africa have urged the government to withdraw and
redraft a proposed media law that critics say would allow authorities
to classify virtually any official information as secret.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_124302_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>Glenn Beck's God is not my God

>By Patricia Templeton

[Episcopal News Service] Like many Americans I watched the news last
weekend and saw the pictures of people gathered on the mall in
Washington, D.C., at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial.

There conservative talk show host Glenn Beck stood at Lincoln's feet,
looked out across the crowd and declared, "America today begins to
turn back to God."

As I listened to him speak, it suddenly became clear to me. Glenn Beck
and I may both call ourselves Christians, but we don't worship the
same Christ or the same God.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_124289_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On September 3, 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 September 3, 1658, Oliver Cromwell, leader of
the Puritan Revolution, died.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Governance and Ministry - Rethinking Board Leadership" from The Alban
Institute, by Dan Hotchkiss, foreword by James B. Lemler, 249 pages,
paperback, c. 2009, $17

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senior consultant Dan Hotchkiss offers congregational leaders a
roadmap and tools for changing the way boards and clergy work together
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Governance in congregations is not the science of achieving optimal
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Congregations need skills and methods for negotiating "our way" of
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