[ELD] After visit to Zimbabwe's Anglicans, Massachusetts bishop calls for increased international action / 'Everyone, Everywhere' mission conference opens with call to conversion / Lambeth bulletin insert series continues with outline of Spouses

[Matthew Davies]

Episcopal Life Daily
June 6, 2008

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

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - After visit to Zimbabwe's Anglicans, Massachusetts bishop
calls for increased international action
* TOP STORY - 'Everyone, Everywhere' mission conference opens with call
to conversion
* TOP STORY - Lambeth bulletin insert series continues with outline of
Spouses Conference
* TOP STORY - Robert Kennedy remembered at L.A. hospital where he died
40 years ago
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - ROCHESTER: Presiding Bishop's visit encourages
volunteers in community ministry
* WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: England's church leaders call for worshippers
to make 'Time for God's Creation'
* TEACHING - Diverse gathering of Christian activists aims to chart
gospel politics of the future
* ARTS - World-renowned choirmaster honored in New Jersey
* DAYBOOK - June 9, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on
the Earth

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TOP STORIES

After visit to Zimbabwe's Anglicans, Massachusetts bishop calls for
increased international action

[Episcopal News Service] Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, of the Diocese of
Massachusetts, visited Harare, Zimbabwe, between May 26 and June 3, on
behalf of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori at the invitation
of Bishop Sebastian Bakare of Harare to witness the ongoing religious
and political violence among the people of Zimbabwe. Shaw bore the
Presiding Bishop's message of solidarity with Anglicans there who are
suffering from oppression and human rights violations, including
lockouts from their churches and physical violence. For security
reasons, no advance notice about the trip was published.

The statement below was written by Shaw and sent to his state's
Congressional delegation upon his return. It will also be shared with
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, whose chairman and other members have called for a UN Special
Envoy to Zimbabwe.

The Boston Globe newspaper printed a story
(http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2008/06/06/bishop_find
s_flock_tormented_in_zimbabwe) on Shaw's visit to Zimbabwe in its June 6
edition.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97694_ENG_HTM.htm

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'Everyone, Everywhere' mission conference opens with call to conversion

Participants worship, share experiences, learn effective ways to build
relationships

By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Participants in the Everyone, Everywhere World
Mission Conference (http://www.ee08.org) heard calls to conversion and
global transformation during the meeting's opening sessions.

The conference, which runs June 5-8, is being held at the Conference
Center at the Maritime Institute (http://www.ccmit.org) near Baltimore,
Maryland. It is also a joint meeting of the Global Episcopal Mission
Network (GEM) (http://www.gemn.org/) and the Episcopal Partnership for
Global Mission (EPGM) (http://www.episcopalchurch.org/epgm).

Some 300 people from more than 60 dioceses of the Episcopal Church and
six provinces of the Anglican Communion are gathered to worship
together, tell their mission stories, learn effective ways to build
relationships throughout the world, and share mission interests and
experiences.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97679_ENG_HTM.htm

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Lambeth bulletin insert series continues with outline of Spouses
Conference

[Episcopal Life Weekly] Continuing Episcopal Life's nine-part series on
the Lambeth Conference and the Anglican Communion, the seventh
installment, for July 6, outlines plans for the Spouses Conference,
which will bring together the husbands and wives of Anglican bishops
meeting at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, July 10 -
August 3.

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

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Robert Kennedy remembered at L.A. hospital where he died 40 years ago

[Episcopal News Service, Los Angeles] A prayer service remembering the
life of the late Senator Robert Kennedy was held June 3 in All Souls'
Chapel of Good Samaritan Hospital where Kennedy died June 6, 1968 after
being shot the previous day at the nearby Ambassador Hotel.

Episcopal Bishop J. Jon Bruno and Cardinal Roger Mahony joined in
offering prayers and reflections, leading a congregation assembled in
the same chapel where members of the Kennedy family kept vigil following
the tragic shooting.

Good Samaritan - founded in 1885 and an institution of the Episcopal
Diocese of Los Angeles - took particular pride in preparing for the
40th-anniversary liturgy, said hospital president Andrew B. Leeka in
welcoming the congregation to the service.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97679_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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DIOCESAN DIGEST

ROCHESTER: Presiding Bishop's visit encourages volunteers in community
ministry
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_97674_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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WORLD REPORT

ENGLAND: England's church leaders call for worshippers to make 'Time for
God's Creation'
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97693_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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TEACHING

Diverse gathering of Christian activists aims to chart gospel politics
of the future

'Envision' conference is planned for June 8 -- 10 in Princeton

[Episcopal News Service] "Envision," a conference on the role of faith
in public life and the future of Christian engagement in the public area
will draw hundreds of evangelical and mainline Christian activists to
Princeton, New Jersey, June 8 -- 10.

The diverse group of leaders, scholars, artists and activists taking
part in the conference will include such prominent Christian leaders as
Richard Cizik, Jim Wallis and Brenda Salter McNeil. The participants
intend to craft a statement charting the gospel politics of the future.

Among the speakers will be author and evangelical leader Brian McLaren,
who is also scheduled to address this summer's Lambeth Conference. Other
conference leaders will include Bowie Snodgrass, co-founder of a house
church in Manhattan called Transmission, the former Web Content Editor
of Episcopal Life Online, and a member of the steering committee for
Christian Churches Together.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_97661_ENG_HTM.htm

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ARTS

World-renowned choirmaster honored in New Jersey

By Jerry Hames

[Episcopal Life] The Episcopal Church's most distinguished musicians
gathered in Princeton, N.J., on June 1 to honor James Litton, a
world-renowned choirmaster who returned to Trinity Church, where he
served as organist and choirmaster from 1968 to 1982.

A list of "Who's Who" in the Episcopal music world, including founding
members of the Association of Anglican Musicians, participated in the
service where James Litton was installed as director of music, emeritus,
and joined parishioners at a reception to honor him and his wife, Lou
Ann.

"I don't know that there has ever been a greater gathering of Episcopal
musical talent on a Sunday morning," said the Rev. James Sell, interim
priest, who introduced many of the visitors to the congregation. Among
them were organists and choirmasters, both active and retired, from
England, Connecticut, New York, Virginia, Florida, Georgia and Texas.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_97672_ENG_HTM.htm

More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm

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DAYBOOK

On June 8, 2008, the Church remembers Columba, abbot of Iona (521-597).

* 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 8, 1549, England's first Act of Uniformity,
passed by Parliament in January, took effect. The act ordered that
religious services be consistent throughout the country, using Thomas
Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer.

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CATALYST

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