[ELD] American Friends of Sudan hear challenge to act for peace, basic human needs / Communion Partners initiative expands to provide 'relational fellowship' / Church Center launches website for House of Deputies president

[Matthew Davies]

Episcopal Life Daily
June 3, 2008

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

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - American Friends of Sudan hear challenge to act for peace,
basic human needs
* TOP STORY - Communion Partners initiative expands to provide
'relational fellowship'
* TOP STORY - Church Center launches website for House of Deputies
president 
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NORTHERN INDIANA: Introduction to Anglican-Roman
Catholic dialogue offered to dioceses
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Christian-Muslim engagement 'for the sake of
peace in our common home,' Archbishop says
* OPINION - Net Gains: You needn't be Bill Gates to make a difference
* DAYBOOK - June 4, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Transmission

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TOP STORIES

American Friends of Sudan hear challenge to act for peace, basic human
needs

By Joe Bjordal

[Episcopal News Service] "We need you now more than ever," was the
message of Sudan's recently enthroned Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul to the
fourth annual conference of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church
of Sudan (AFRECS), meeting in Chicago May 30 to June 1.

The conference participants came from around the Episcopal Church,
representing dioceses and congregations with companion relationships
with the Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) and those seeking to
explore new relationships. One quarter of those attending were Sudanese
refugees now living in the United States.

Deng's remarks at the opening session of the conference came on the eve
of his return to Sudan after a month-long tour of the United States. He
spoke in dioceses and congregations that have companion relationships,
met with the presiding bishops of the Episcopal Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and received an honorary
doctorate from Virginia Theological Seminary, where he was a student
from 1995 to 1997. He was accompanied on the trip by his wife, Mama
Deborah Abuk Atem.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97606_ENG_HTM.htm

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Communion Partners initiative expands to provide 'relational fellowship'

Group is committed to honoring diocesan boundaries

By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] A group of 13 diocesan bishops working on a
modified version of the "episcopal visitors" concept announced May 30
that Archbishop Valentino L. Mokiwa of Tanzania will join archbishops
Bernard Ntahoturi of Burundi and Drexel Gomez of the West Indies in
serving as "Communion Partner Primates."

"I understand Communion Partners to be a voluntary and informal
association of bishops and now other clergy who wish to share
conversation about relationships across the Anglican Communion,"
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said June 2. "This body has
no official standing, but may fill a useful role in reassuring and
encouraging some who wish to expand their relationships within the
Communion."

The Rev. Dr. Charles Robertson, canon to the Presiding Bishop, reported
that Jefferts Schori on May 9 wrote a personal letter to Bishop D. Bruce
of MacPherson of Western Louisiana, one of the 13 Communion Partner
Bishops, in which she noted her appreciation of the spirit in which the
project has proceeded and its apparent good will; however, she also
wrote that it is not appropriate for her to give any official sanction
to the proposal.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97605_ENG_HTM.htm

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Church Center launches website for House of Deputies president 

[Episcopal News Service] A website highlighting the ministry of the
House of Deputies and its president, Bonnie Anderson, has been added to
the Episcopal Church's web offerings.

It is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/phod.htm

"I am very pleased to be able to offer the House of Deputies and the
wider Episcopal Church this collection of resources that will help
people learn more about the ministry of the deputies and the office of
the president of the House of Deputies," Anderson said.

The site features information about the role of General Convention
deputies, a directory of the current deputations and other material that
deputations and individual deputies will find useful. It also includes
compilations of Anderson's statements and sermons as well as background
on Anderson, official photos, news coverage of her work as House of
Deputies president and information about her role.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97583_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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DIOCESAN DIGEST

NORTHERN INDIANA: Introduction to Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue
offered to dioceses
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_97586_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: Christian-Muslim engagement 'for the sake of peace in our
common home,' Archbishop says
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97589_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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OPINION

Net Gains

You needn't be Bill Gates to make a difference

[Religion News Service] Julia had cornmeal and black tea for dinner. Her
family couldn't afford a balanced diet.

After eating, she rubbed her eyes and whispered to her mother that she
wanted to go to bed. "I feel a little weak," she said. As Julia fell
asleep, a host of female Anopheles mosquitoes made their way through the
holes in the net over her bed. They lingered
over her, feeding on the blood in her arm and injecting her with
parasites.

In the next six days, Julia had fever and chills. She experienced
sweating episodes and ached in every joint of her body -- the onset of
malaria.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81840_97587_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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DAYBOOK

On June 4, 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 June 4, 1996, Bishop Winston Njongonkulu Ndungane
was elected to succeed Desmond Tutu as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town.

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CATALYST

"Transmission" from Isaac Everett, by Isaac Everett, CD, c. 2008, $15

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themes of anger, lament, hope, and sensuality with rock, jazz, and world
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More Catalyst: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/83842_ENG_HTM.htm