[ENS] Chaplains join search for answers in young man's suicide / ENGLAND: Archbishop expresses conce

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Date Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:05:23 -0400

>Episcopal News Service
>October 8, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Chaplains join search for answers in young man's suicide
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop expresses concern over refugee 
protect ion
* WORLD REPORT - Archbishop of Canterbury to visit India
* OPINION - The spirituality of philanthropy
* OPINION - Episcopal Village brings mission shaped church to 
Baltimore
* DAYBOOK - October 11: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK - "Los Sacramentos - Simbolos de 
Santifi cación"

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>TOP STORIES

Chaplains join search for answers in young man's suicide

Tyler Clementi's death highlights role of church in preventing 
harassment,  bullying

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] After fielding phone calls from anxious 
parents an d talking to students since Rutgers University freshman 
Tyler Clementi left  a suicide note on his Facebook page and killed 
himself after his sexual en counter with another man was broadcast 
online, the campus' Episcopal Church  chaplain went to see "The 
Social Network," the movie about Facebook's orig ins.

"I'm still learning and my task as a chaplain in part is to continue 
to eng age people long after this is in the headlines and try to 
constructively en gage them in quieter times," the Rev. Greg Bezilla, 
chaplain of the Rutgers  Episcopal Campus Ministry, told Episcopal 
News Service in a recent intervi ew.

Bezilla is not alone in his desire to learn more about the causes and 
impli cations of the tragedy. Episcopal Church chaplains and clergy, 
among others , have been among those trying to understand and learn 
from the Ridgewood,  New Jersey man's suicide in hopes of preventing 
similar deaths in the futur e. It is not an easy task.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_125032_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Archbishop expresses concern over refugee protection

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on 
Oct. 7  expressed his concerns about the protection of refugees in 
the United Kingd om during a visit to the Refugee Council, the 
leading national charity work ing with asylum seekers and refugees, 
according to a press release from Lam beth Palace.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125030_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Archbishop of Canterbury to visit India

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will 
embar k on a 16-day visit to India from Oct. 9-24 at the invitation 
of the Commun ion of Churches in India, according to a Lambeth Palace 
press release.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125031_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>OPINION

>The spirituality of philanthropy

>By Terry Parsons

[Episcopal New Service] "This is stewardship, not fundraising" is 
something  I have heard often during the past 15 years as a 
stewardship teacher. Howe ver, as a once-upon-a-time development 
director for a most-worthy-cause non -profit organization, I know 
that large gifts always have a spiritual compo nent. I have yet to 
see the plaque large enough or the donor list whose nam es are in 
type bold enough to motivate a donor to write the check with lots  of 
zeros. Whatever other motives might come into play, the largest gifts 
a lways reflect a considerable investment of the heart.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_125035_ENG_HTM.htm
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Episcopal Village brings mission shaped church to Baltimore

>By Becky Garrison

[Episcopal News Service] As I reported in Religion Dispatches, in 
recent ye ars, one can find an increasingly number of Anglicans, 
Catholic and other m ainline church leaders, who are rethinking how 
they "do church."  The reaso ns for this shift in thinking are myriad 
and have only intensified since 20 08 when a number of studies 
indicated that for the first time in U.S. histo ry, less than 50 
percent of Americans classified themselves as "Christian."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_125034_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

On October 11, 2010, the church remembers Philip, deacon and 
evangelist.

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer: 
http://www.anglicancommunion.o rg/acp/index.cfm

* Today in History: On October 11, 1896, Edward White Benson, 
archbishop of  Canterbury, died.

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>EPISCOPAL BOOKS & RESOURCES PICK

"Los Sacramentos - Simbolos de Santificación" from Forward Movement, 
by F orward Movement, 77 pages, paperback, c.2008, $3

[Forward Movement] Este librito, escrito en colaboración por cuatro 
autor es, es un instrumento excelente para nuestra catequesis y 
pastoral minister ial. Con frecuencia se había pedido material sobre 
los siete sacramentos.  Aquí se ofrece de una manera sencilla y 
práctica teniendo presente el  Libro de Oración Común y la 
experiencia ministerial. Será muy bien ac eptado por nuestras 
comunidades.

This simple and practical booklet introduces the seven sacraments: 
baptism,  confirmation, reconciliation of a penitent (confession), 
eucharist, minist ration to the sick, ordination, and marriage, 
examining their history, prac tice, and cultural and liturgical 
meanings.

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