[ELD] Lambeth Conference focus of August 17, 24 bulletin inserts / MIDDLE EAST: Jordan to host conference on women's empowerment, leadership

[Matthew Davies]

Episcopal Life Daily
August 12, 2008

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

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Lambeth Conference focus of August 17, 24 bulletin inserts
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOUISIANA: Day of Service to mark Katrina anniversary
* WORLD REPORT - MIDDLE EAST: Jordan to host conference on women's
empowerment, leadership
* MISSION - Multicultural communication scholarship deadline August 25
* OPINION - More questions than answers: Explanations for tragedy, and
beauty, still beyond reach
* DAYBOOK - August 13, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Clergy Moms: A Survival Guide to Balancing Family and
Congregation

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TOP STORIES

Lambeth Conference focus of August 17, 24 bulletin inserts
 
[Episcopal News Service] Bulletin inserts for August 17 and August 24
contain reports on the work of the Lambeth Conference. The first insert
includes statements made at the end of the conference by Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
The second insert outlines the work of the conference, with comments from
attending bishops. 

Bulletin inserts are available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/95270_ENG_HTM.htm.

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

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DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOUISIANA: Day of Service to mark Katrina anniversary
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_99940_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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WORLD REPORT

MIDDLE EAST: Jordan to host conference on women's empowerment, leadership
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_99928_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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MISSION

Multicultural communication scholarship deadline August 25
 
[Episcopal News Service] August 25 is the application deadline for the first
Jerrold Hames Scholarship for Multicultural Communication, a $500 award to
assist a student pursuing professional communication employment within the
Episcopal Church. 

Applicants should be "Episcopalians of college age who agree to pursue
professional careers and employment in Episcopal Church communications,"
according to the Executive Council resolution establishing Episcopal Church
trust fund 1023. The award will be determined "giving preference to persons
of cross-cultural descent and affirming students' Asian, Black, Latino
and/or Native American contexts ... who sill serve the Episcopal Church, in
one of its dioceses or church-wide offices, as a communication professional
dedicated to increasing the multicultural understanding and collaboration
that assists in building up the whole body of Christ."

Each applicant should submit a letter and one additional letter of reference
to Episcopal Life Media Scholarship Committee, care of Ana Arias, 815 Second
Avenue, New York, NY 10017, or email aarias at episcopalchurch.org.

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

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OPINION

More questions than answers

Explanations for tragedy, and beauty, still beyond reach

By Christopher Webber

[Episcopal News Service] For years I told people that I liked the New Yorker
because of the theology in the cartoons. I once put together a proposal for
a book to be called The New Yorker's Idea of Heaven. Dozens of cartoons are
available to illustrate my proposed book, many showing a black-garbed figure
with a sickle and many with clouds and a gate of heaven and St. Peter
checking in new arrivals.

Now The New Yorker has gotten more serious about its theology. The double
issue for mid-June published a series of short essays on faith and doubt and
a longish review of Bart D. Ehrman's new book, God's Problem: How the Bible
Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer. It's part of a
sudden wave of books attacking the God idea, intended, perhaps for an
audience too young to remember the "God is Dead" wave some 40 years ago.

The New Yorker's reviewer starts us off with the headlines of May 15, 2008:
Fifty thousand or more dead in China, some hundred thousand in Burma; 10
killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad, a dozen by a missile strike in
Pakistan, a policeman by ETA terrorists in northern Spain. Some days are
worse than others, but sheer numbers are irrelevant.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_99925_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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DAYBOOK

On August 13, 2008, the Church calendar remembers Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of
Down, Connor, and Dromore (1613-1667).

* 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 13, 1587, members of Sir Walter Raleigh's
expedition to Roanoke baptized a Native American named Manteo. This was
first recorded Anglican baptism in the American colonies.

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CATALYST

"Clergy Moms: A Survival Guide to Balancing Family and Congregation" from
Church Publishing, Inc., by Allison M. Moore, 180 pages, paperback, c. 2008,
$17

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Walking the tightrope of home and parish life for
clergy parents is notoriously difficult in all the mainline Protestant
denominations, but most books on ordination and vocation ignore the question
of family life. The ordination of women, the prevalence of two-career
marriages, the increasing need to care for aging family members, and the
recognition of non-traditional families have shed new light on clergy family
dynamics within the family and the church. This book uses accounts of
experiences gathered through interviews and surveys of clergy and their
family members, primarily in the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. Its ultimate
goal is to develop a holistic theology of vocation that has implications for
the church, the clergy, and all families and nourishes and protects faith
and family life.

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

More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm