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>Episcopal News Service
>September 10, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Moravian Church's Southern Province enters full
communion with Episcopal Church
* TOP STORY - Episcopal churches, religious leaders plan Sept. 11
interfaith events
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - FORT WORTH: Bishop optimistic about progress of
property litigation
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - CALIFORNIA: Episcopalians respond to San Bruno 
fire
* MISSION - Episcopal Church to join Oct. 3 national day of prayer for
healing in the Gulf of Mexico
* PEOPLE - Presiding bishop to speak at three leadership events in 
October
* DAYBOOK - September 13: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "God's Tapestry - Understanding
and Celebrating Differences"

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>TOP STORIES

Moravian Church's Southern Province enters full communion with 
Episcopal Church
Vote echoes similar decision by Northern Province

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The Southern Province of the Moravian Church
voted Sept. 10 to enter into full communion with the Episcopal Church.

The 121-74 vote came after two hours of debate during an afternoon
session on the second day of the church's Sept. 9-12 quadrennial
Provincial Synod at Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North
Carolina.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said after learning of the
decision, "I am delighted that the Southern Province has discerned the
rightness of a full communion agreement with The Episcopal Church.
Together we will be better able to serve Christ our chief Elder and
all God's people."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_124442_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal churches, religious leaders plan Sept. 11 interfaith events
Florida pastor 'suspends' plan to burn Quran

>By Pat McCaughan and Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Church and other religious leaders
are planning interfaith events on Sept. 11, the anniversary of the day
when highjacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center in New York
City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania, and the day a Christian pastor had said he would burn
copies of the Quran.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_124435_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

FORT WORTH: Bishop optimistic about progress of property litigation

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop C. Wallis Ohl said Sept. 9 that he is
optimistic about the progress of litigation over disputed property and
assets in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, after several recent
court actions.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_124424_ENG_HTM.htm

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CALIFORNIA: Episcopalians respond to San Bruno fire
By Sean T. McConnell

[Diocese of California] A gas main exploded under a residential
neighborhood in San Bruno, California, Sept. 9 at 6:15 pm. Now, some
15 hours later, the true cause of the explosion remains under
investigation; four people are confirmed dead and more than 50
injured; more than 50 homes have been destroyed, more than 100
damaged; and 280 people slept in shelters last night.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_124437_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

Episcopal Church to join Oct. 3 national day of prayer for healing in
the Gulf of Mexico

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church is joining other
religious denominations and groups in observing a national day of
prayer and action for the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, Oct. 3, according
to a press release from the public affairs office.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_124434_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Presiding bishop to speak at three leadership events in October

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
will address topics of faith in three conferences in October:
Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Annual Summit"; an interreligious panel
with the Dalai Lama at Emory University; and Maria Shriver's Annual
"The Women's Conference," according to a press release from the
Episcopal Churc's public affairs office.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_124433_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

On September 13, 2010, the church remembers Cyprian, bishop and martyr
of Carthage.

* 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 13, 1997, Bishop Mark MacDonald was
consecrated bishop of Alaska.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"God's Tapestry - Understanding and Celebrating Differences" from The
Alban Institute, by William M. Kondrath, foreword by Mpho A. Tutu, 285
pages, paperback, c. 2008, $20

[The Alban Institute] Our differences are our greatest blessings and
our greatest challenges, maintains William Kondrath, Episcopal priest
and seminary professor. Theologically and ecologically, differences
foster life and growth, but discord within denominations and
congregations frequently have to do with the inability of individuals
and groups to deeply understand and value differences.

In God's Tapestry, Kondrath shows us how to embrace our
multiculturalism--our differences of race, culture, gender, age,
theology, language, sexual identity, and so forth.  He does this by
exploring differences on four levels--personal, interpersonal,
institutional, and cultural.  He also demonstrates a threefold process
for becoming multicultural: recognizing our differences, understanding
those differences and their significance and consequences, and valuing
or celebrating those differences.

While ministry is the work of the faith community, not only ordained
or professional staff, it is critical that leaders learn the art and
skill of recognizing, understanding, and valuing differences. Then the
congregations and agencies they serve, having learned and practiced
the art and skill of celebrating differences, can be the yeast that
brings this awareness of God's diverse blessings to the wider world.

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