[ELD] Episcopal Life Daily

[Matthew Davies]

Episcopal Life Daily
June 12, 2008

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

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: Bishop defends actions in sexual abuse
trial
* WORLD REPORT - BRITAIN: Archbishops to honor U.K. religion journalist
who took his life
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Historic apology to residential schools
students seen as a beginning
* WORLD REPORT - CHINA: Bible plant has monthly printing capacity of one
million
* WORLD REPORT - KENYA: Deaths of officials in plane crash pain church
leaders
* MULTIMEDIA - Sudanese priest Michael Kiju Paul
* FEATURE - All part of the plan: Strategy sets San Diego diocese 'on
fire' with new mission progress
* DAYBOOK - June 13, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Disciples of the Street: The Promise of a Hip Hop Church

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DIOCESAN DIGEST

PENNSYLVANIA: Bishop defends actions in sexual abuse trial
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_97774_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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WORLD REPORT

BRITAIN: Archbishops to honor U.K. religion journalist who took his life
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97782_ENG_HTM.htm

CANADA: Historic apology to residential schools students seen as a
beginning
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97783_ENG_HTM.htm

CHINA: Bible plant has monthly printing capacity of one million
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97780_ENG_HTM.htm

KENYA: Deaths of officials in plane crash pain church leaders
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97781_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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MULTIMEDIA

Sudanese priest Michael Kiju Paul

[Episcopal News Service] Sudanese priest the Rev. Michael Kiju Paul of
St. Luke's Episcopal Church in San Diego speaks about the American
Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, which held its last meeting
May 30-June 1 in Chicago. Formerly from the Diocese of Kajo Keji in
Sudan, Kiju Paul moved to the United States in 1998 to study at Virginia
Theological Seminary.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

More Multimedia: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80056_ENG_HTM.htm

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FEATURES

All part of the plan

Strategy sets San Diego diocese 'on fire' with new mission progress

[Episcopal Life] For the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, ministries that
nurture preschoolers, house the homeless, teach the faith, aid wildfire
recovery, develop new ministries and share resources are all part of the
plan -- a strategic plan embodying the baptismal covenant.

"Show me a serving church and I'll show you a growing church," declares
Bishop James Mathes during an eight-minute introductory video, Diocese
on Fire, which anchors the diocesan website (http://www.edsd.org).

For Mathes the reference to fire is both prophetic and deliberate:
prophetic in the sense of a church aflame with vibrant ministries "and
the conviction that as we touch the lives of others, we find Christ and
are changed as well.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81834_97778_ENG_HTM.htm

More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm

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DAYBOOK

On June 13, 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 13, 1893, Anglican novelist and playwright
Dorothy Leigh Sayers is born in Oxford, England.

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CATALYST

"Disciples of the Street: The Promise of a Hip Hop Church" from Church
Publishing, Inc., by Eric Gutierrez, 180 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $20

[Church Publishing, Inc.] "This is a stunner. Eric Gutierrez opens
closed windows of the soul and delivers an utterly challenging,
refreshingly original work. Read it." -- Malcolm Boyd, author of Are You
Running with me, Jesus?

What would cause a small, 140 year-old, Episcopal Church in the heart of
the South Bronx to begin offering hip-hop services? How would the
church, both locally and nationally, react? Utilizing scores or
interviews and months of research, Disciples of the Street, is the story
of one Church's engagement with hip-hop religion, the conflicts that
ensued, and the resulting birth of something much larger. Following the
start of that small hip hop religious movement from its inception in the
summer of 2004, through its building of a national profile, in a story
that moves from the birthplace of rap to youth detention facilities in
Virginia to the New South and all manner of places in between, Gutierrez
looks deeply into the questions of what hip-hop has to say to the
traditional church and what the church might say to hip-hop culture.
Disciples of the Street is a compelling story well told and the
definitive look at the issues facing a movement that's growing in
popularity and gaining traction around the country.

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