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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

July 12, 2005 - Tuesday to Note & To Read

Kanuga's liturgical arts conference set for August 21-26

[Episcopal News Service] Kanuga Conference Center's summer programs
continue
with the eighth annual liturgical arts conference, "Holy Works for Holy
Places," August 21-26, in Hendersonville, North Carolina. What began as
a
conference for church needleworkers now includes weavers, choir singers,
choir leaders and-new this year-calligraphers.

The conference draws participants from all over the nation and aims not
only
to provide instructional sessions but to renew, enrich and inspire each
attendee.

As a result, churches in many states take pride in new, repaired, and
rescued linens, vestments, kneelers, and liturgical regalia-offerings
made
by members of the congregation.

Attendees come with all levels of ability and sometimes leave with a
completed project or a sampler.

Workshops, taught by some of the best instructors in the nation,
include:
Sewing Church Linens with Pat Crane; Sacred Calligraphy with Michael
Smith;
Developing the Volunteer Choral Singer with Christopher Brayne;
Intermediate
Silk and Metal Thread Embroidery with Marylyn Doyle; Intermediate
Canvaswork
with Eileen Za; Counted Thread Book Covers with Marion Scoular; Advanced
Canvaswork with Sally Boom; and Weaving for a Liturgical Setting with
Jane
Stickney.

The Rev. Sally Johnston, associate rector at Church of the Holy
Comforter in
Charlotte, North Carolina, is the conference chaplain and Chris Brayne,
director of music and organist, Christ Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
will led music and choral class. Marnie Smith, of Columbia, South
Carolina,
is the conference coordinator and founder.

For registration visit
http://www.kanuga.org/conferences/onlineregistration.asp?confref=5124
or
call 828.692.9136.

Note: The following titles are available from the Episcopal
Book/Resource
Center, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017;
800.334.7626; 212.716.6118 or http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/

To Read: A CHANGE OF PASTORS: AND HOW IT AFFECTS CHANGE IN THE
CONGREGATION
by Loren B. Mead (Herndon, Virginia: The Alban Institute, 2005; 100
pages.)

>From the publisher: In this revised edition of Critical Moment of
Ministry
retitled A Change of Pastors, Mead helps clergy understand the process
parish members go through before the new pastor arrives and gives lay
members guidance that allows them to take advantage of this fertile time
for
change in the congregation.

Loren B. Mead, an Episcopal priest, founded the Alban Institute in 1974.
Since his retirement as president in 1993, he has continued to consult
with
congregations, lecture, and write.

To Read: PASTORS IN TRANSITION: Why Clergy Leave Local Church Ministry
by
Dean R. Hoge and Jacqueline E. Wenger (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005; 257 pages; $21.00.)

>From the publisher: Whether they leave out of preference for another
ministry or due to serious conflict, pastors who relinquish parish
ministry
face misunderstanding and even hostility. Pastors in Transition brings
clarity to this little-examined aspect of the pastorate by investigating
the
main reasons why pastors in five Protestant denominations have left
parish
ministry.

Dean R. Hoge is professor of sociology at the Catholic University of
America, Washington, D.C.

Jacqueline E. Wenger is a doctoral candidate and research associate at
the
Catholic University of America.

To Read: UNVEILING THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES by Amy Lignitz Harken (St.
Louis,
Missouri: Chalice Press, 2005; 100 pages; $12.99.)

>From the publisher: In conversation with the Bible and Sue Monk Kidd's
novel The Secret Life of Bees (Penguin, 2003,) Unveiling the Secret Life
of
Bees explores women's roles, feminine power, and relationships. It looks
at
the roles of women in the Bible and how those roles are defined or
redefined
by the characters inThe Secret Life of Bees, expanding our concepts of
Divine mother, Earthly mother, sisters, daughters, wives, and the "queen
bee."

Amy Lignitz Harken is associate minister at Community Christian Church
in
Kansas City, Missouri. She holds a M.Div. from the University of Chicago
and
a B.S.J. from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and
has
studied fiction writing at the Professional Writing Program at the
University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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