[ELD] Presiding Bishop to conduct post-Lambeth live webcast August 7 / Episcopal Church to hold 'Day of Repentance' to apologize for participation in slavery

[Matthew Davies]

Episcopal Life Daily
August 6, 2008

Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop to conduct post-Lambeth live webcast August 7
* TOP STORY - Episcopal Church to hold 'Day of Repentance' to apologize for
participation in slavery
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: St. James Great Barrington's
community strengthened by building's weakness
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Video marks 15 years since primate's apology to
Aboriginals
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Boycotting primate wants Lambeth Conference to
continue
* WEEKS AHEAD - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 14 - Year
A [RCL]
* DAYBOOK - August 7, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Spiritual Sightseeing: Observations of Oxford

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TOP STORIES

Presiding Bishop to conduct post-Lambeth live webcast August 7

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will
conduct a live webcast to talk about the Lambeth Conference on Thursday,
August 7 at 2 p.m. Eastern time (1 p.m. Central, noon Mountain, 11 a.m.
Pacific).

Originating from the Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Ave., New York
City, the webcast will be accessible through the homepage of the Episcopal
Church's website at www.episcopalchurch.org.

Questions will be accepted from the live audience and via email at
newsline at episcopalchurch.org. Phone-in questions will not be accepted.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99819_ENG_HTM.htm

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Episcopal Church to hold 'Day of Repentance' to apologize for participation
in slavery

By Daphne Mack
 
[Episcopal News Service] A two-day solemn observance has been planned for
October 3-4 at the historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the Episcopal Church will take a
monumental step and publicly apologize for its involvement in the
institution of transatlantic slavery. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts
Schori will serve as celebrant and preacher at the October 4 service of
repentance. 

"This gathering is of vital importance because this is a stain on the church
that's been around for a long time," said John Vanderstar, Executive Council
member and author of resolution A123, which called for the occasion. "I
strongly believe that the church needs to confront its past and change its
future." 

The 2006 General Convention resolution A123 declared that the institution of
slavery in the United States and "anywhere else in the world" was and is a
sin, and mandated that the church acknowledge and express regret for its
support of slavery and for supporting "de jure and de facto segregation and
discrimination" for years after slavery's abolition. The resolution also
asked the Presiding Bishop to call for a "Day of Repentance and
Reconciliation" and to organize a service.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_99818_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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DIOCESAN DIGEST

WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: St. James Great Barrington's community strengthened
by building's weakness
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_99817_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Video marks 15 years since primate's apology to Aboriginals
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_99816_ENG_HTM.htm

KENYA: Boycotting primate wants Lambeth Conference to continue
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_99815_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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WEEKS AHEAD

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/78650_1669_ENG_HTM.htm

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SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 14 - Year A [RCL]

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28, Psalm 105, 1-6, 16-22, 45b; Romans 10:5-15; Matthew
14:22-33

By Judith Schenck
 
[Sermons That Work] "And Joseph went looking for his brothers."

Seeking, searching, Joseph went looking for his brothers. In today's reading
from Genesis, the meaning in Hebrew of Jacob's command to Joseph is, "See
how your brothers are," with the meaning of "Seek the peacefulness and
integrity of your brothers." Joseph's search for his brothers, God's search
for us, our search of one another, is more than just to seek and search for
another, but to seek and search for the other's peace, wholeness, and well
being. 

As God goes searching, looking for us, so we must look and search for God
and for one another, for our brothers and sisters. As Joseph went looking
for his brothers, so must we. 

Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82478_99787_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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DAYBOOK

On August 7, 2008, the Church calendar remembers John Mason Neale, priest
(1818-1866)

* 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 August 7, 1831, F.W. (Frederic William) Farrar was
born in Bombay, India. He became successively canon of Westminster and
rector of St. Margaret's, archdeacon of Westminster and dean of Canterbury.

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CATALYST

"Spiritual Sightseeing: Observations of Oxford" from Areopagite Press, by
the Reverend Dr. Dennis B. A. Berk, 208 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $9.95

[Westminster John Knox Press] See the historical sights of Oxford from a
unique spiritual perspective as the author takes you on a journey through
England's most famous University city.
 
Dennis B.A. Berk was born in 1965 and grew up in rural Pennsylvania. After
completing a bachelor's degree in psychology at Wheaton College, in
Illinois, he moved to Ontario, Canada. There he pursued theological studies
at Trinity College, in the University of Toronto from whence he received a
Master of Divinity. In 1990 he was ordained in the Anglican Church of
Canada, and he served first as a Curate and then later as a Rector in
parishes in eastern Ontario. He returned to Pennsylvania to study at
Lancaster Theological Seminary. After successfully defending his
dissertation, subsequently published in revised form as the book Embracing
Inclusion, he received a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1998. Following three
years of missionary service in tropical Africa, he was invited to Oxford as
a Visiting Lecturer for one semester. His African experiences were published
as a book entitled Zambian Journal. Having returned to the United States in
2006, currently he is a parish priest within his home state of Pennsylvania.

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