Episcopal Life Daily May 14, 2008
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.
Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:
* TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop to address the media on Lambeth Conference * TOP STORY - Ireland's President Mary McAleese commends Church's 'relentless and courageous work' * WORLD REPORT - INDIA: Churches condemn bomb blasts in Jaipur * WEEKS AHEAD - Upcoming special events and services * Correction: Booksellers Trade Exhibit not open to public * SPIRITUAL REFLECTION - Trinity Sunday - Year A [RCL] * DAYBOOK - May 15, 2008: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History * CATALYST - Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
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TOP STORIES
Presiding Bishop to address the media on Lambeth Conference
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will address members of the media about the Lambeth Conference on Tuesday, May 20 in a live webcast at the Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Ave., New York City. The webcast will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern time (1 p.m. Central, noon Mountain, 11 a.m. Pacific).
Joining the Presiding Bishop will be the Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas of Episcopal Divinity School, who is a member of the Lambeth Conference Design Group.
All are welcome to view the live webcast, which will be available through a direct link on the homepage of Episcopal Church website. Questions, however, will be accepted only from credentialed media. The Lambeth Conference will be the only topic discussed at this event.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97098_ENG_HTM.htm
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Ireland's President Mary McAleese commends Church's 'relentless and courageous work'
By Matthew Davies
[Episcopal News Service, Galway, Ireland] President of Ireland Mary McAleese told members of the Church of Ireland's General Synod May 14 that they play a vital role in "applying your hands, heart, mind and soul" to make the island nation "the best it can be through the active citizenship of its people."
McAleese expressed gratitude for the "quiet, relentless and often courageous work" of the churches in Ireland "in nudging us, cajoling us, persuading us and leading us in all our prickly differences to the increasingly secure common ground of mutual respect on which we are building a shared future."
Introducing McAleese, Church of Ireland Archbishop Alan Harper acknowledged the contribution she has made in building bridges between Ireland's disparate voices and "enabling them to imagine better outcomes."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_97099_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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WORLD REPORT
INDIA: Churches condemn bomb blasts in Jaipur
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_97101_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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WEEKS AHEAD
A round-up of upcoming special events, services, concerts and diocesan conventions taking place throughout the Episcopal Church is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78650_1669_ENG_HTM.htm
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Correction: Booksellers Trade Exhibit not open to public
To correct a May 8 Episcopal Life Online feature article, the Religious Booksellers Trade Exhibit (RBTE) and the concurrent meetings of the Episcopal Booksellers Association (EBA) are not open to the public. RBTE is a trade exhibit, and bibliophiles who arrive with their sturdy book bags, as the article suggests, will be disappointed to learn they are ineligible for discounts and "freebies" and autographed copies of new books. RBTE participants pay for registration, and identification is required at all RBTE events. Book and merchandise vendors are on the exhibit floor, but there are no retail book stores. Items in the displays are for exhibit, not for retail sale.
Also to clarify, The Episcopal Booksellers Association has no corporate ties with RBTE. The two are entirely independent organizations. Meetings of EBA currently take place at the venue in order to take best advantage of travel dollars and time, yet like the Association of Catholic Booksellers also meeting on location, EBA is not a "child" of RBTE. EBA meetings take place elsewhere and throughout the year. EBA store managers attend many independent trade exhibits; the choice is a matter of geography and product need.
The Episcopal Booksellers Association conveys the voices of Episcopal readers and customers to the writers, publishers, and manufacturers who sell materials with religious subjects and imagery. Episcopal stores serve a small niche market, and EBA assists publishers to identify that market and the books and products appropriate to the Episcopal tradition and liturgy. The EBA meetings held in May do allow joyful camaraderie, yet members are there primarily for business: to communicate with colleagues, to mentor new book store managers, to share marketing ideas, to compare business software and business techniques, to introduce books and authors.
Episcopal Life regrets the error.
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SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS
Trinity Sunday - Year A [RCL]
Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8 or Canticle 2 or 13; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20
By J. Barrington Bates
[Sermons That Work] Let's begin with an excerpt from The New Yorker magazine, from an article by Malcolm Gladwell. It's about, of all things, automobile safety -- or the lack of it -- and one man's tragic automobile accident, now more than a decade ago.
Quote: "Robert Day's crash was not the accident of a young man. He was hit from the side, and adolescents and young adults usually have side-impact crashes when their cars slide off the road into a fixed object like a tree, often at reckless speeds. Older people tend to have side-impact crashes at normal speeds, in intersections, and as the result of error, not negligence. In fact, Day's crash was not merely typical in form; it was the result of a common type of driver error. He didn't see something he was supposed to see. His mistake is, on one level, difficult to understand. There was a sign, clearly visible from the roadway, telling him of an intersection ahead, and then another, in bright red, telling him to stop. How could he have missed them both?"
You see, even though visibility was perfect and the roadway dry on this bright, clear spring day, he missed a stop sign, and drove 40 miles an hour through an intersection in New Jersey to his death.
Full reflection: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82478_96990_ENG_HTM.htm
More Spiritual Reflections:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm
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DAYBOOK
On May 15, 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 May 15, 1686, Robert Ratcliffe arrived in Boston with orders from England's King Charles II to found the Anglican Church in Massachusetts.
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CATALYST
"Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement" from Oxford University Press, by Sally G. McMillen, 310 pages, hardcover, c. 2008, $28
[Oxford University Press] In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention would be felt around the world and indeed are still being felt today.
In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman's Rights Movement, the latest contribution to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, Sally McMillen unpacks, for the first time, the full significance of that revolutionary convention and the enormous changes it produced. The book covers 50 years of women's activism, from 1840-1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures -- Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen tells the stories of their lives, how they came to take up the cause of women's rights, the astonishing advances they made during their lifetimes, and the lasting and transformative effects of the work they did. At the convention they asserted full equality with men, argued for greater legal rights, greater professional and education opportunities, and the right to vote--ideas considered wildly radical at the time. Indeed, looking back at the convention two years later, Anthony called it "the grandest and greatest reform of all time--and destined to be thus regarded by the future historian." In this lively and warmly written study, Sally McMillen may well be the future historian Anthony was hoping to find.
A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American women's history, and indeed in human history, Seneca Falls, 1848 is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the woman's rights movement.
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