[ELD] Bonnie Anderson challenges laity to live into baptismal covenant

[Matthew Davies]

Episcopal Life Daily
August 25, 2008

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

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Bonnie Anderson challenges laity to live into baptismal
covenant
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Church offers plan for year of action on
tackling climate change
* WORLD REPORT - SUDAN: Church's first woman dean installed in historic
ceremony at Renk Cathedral
* OPINION - Truth be told
* DAYBOOK - August 26, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Restoring the Anglican Mind

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TOP STORIES

Bonnie Anderson challenges laity to live into baptismal covenant

By Richelle Thompson

[Episcopal News Service] Taking seriously the unique promise of the
baptismal covenant set the foundation for a series of appearances August
22-24 by Bonnie Anderson, president of the House of Deputies, in the
Diocese of Southern Ohio.

Anderson challenged different groups from throughout the diocese to live
out their baptismal covenant, both within their church communities and
in the world. At the invitation of the Episcopal Community Services
Foundation, Anderson served as the keynote speaker at a conference for
social justice advocates and grant seekers. Anderson also met with youth
of the diocese in Columbus and preached at Christ Church Cathedral in
Cincinnati.

Within the Anglican Communion, the Episcopal Church is the only province
with a baptismal covenant, said Anderson. "Our baptismal covenant brings
us to an understanding of the gifts of laity that isn't really
understood in the same way by the rest of the communion ... [In the Book
of Common Prayer] the catechism says that the ministers of the church
are lay persons, bishops, priests and deacons -- in that order. And so
we are called by God to do the work we are given."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_100155_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Church offers plan for year of action on tackling climate
change
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_100133_ENG_HTM.htm 

SUDAN: Church's first woman dean installed in historic ceremony at Renk
Cathedral
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_100130_ENG_HTM.htm 

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

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OPINION

Truth be told

By Solange De Santis

[Episcopal Life] It may seem odd to see a Christmas-themed cartoon in
the middle of August -- an August, at that, in which a major church
event, the Lambeth Conference, is taking place. However, it illustrates,
with a gentle, yet lively humor, what we are all about at Episcopal
Life.

The cartoon was one in a series created several years ago in a
brainstorming session between Canadian artist Mel Malton and a certain
writer for the Canadian church's Anglican Journal who is now the editor
of Episcopal Life.

One might be forgiven for thinking this is the artist's conception of
how the Gospels came to be, but the person taking notes is not one of
the Gospel writers.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81840_100157_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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DAYBOOK

On August 26, 2008...

* 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 26, 1958, Ralph Vaughan Williams, English
composer, died and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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CATALYST

"Restoring the Anglican Mind" from Gracewing, by Arthur Middleton, 101
pages, paperback, c. 2008, $16

[Gracewing] With the Lambeth Conference of 2008 in mind, the author
presents this timely proclamation to Anglicans across the world of the
need to return to a "Western Orthodoxy." Canon Middleton takes us back
to early principles and shows us how they still speak to us today.

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