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>Episcopal Life Daily
>December 8, 2009

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>Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP STORY - Unity, Faith and Order commission develops vision, urges
'gracious restraint' following L.A. election
* TOP STORY - Ecumenism provides trickle-up effect
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: Convention focuses on faith, future,
leadership and mission
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - NEW JERSEY, NEWARK: Bishops call for passage of
state 'marriage-equality' bill
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Liberals criticize CIDA cuts to KAIROS funding
* MISSION - Let the sun shine: Solar Richmond provides green jobs for
social good
* PEOPLE - Lesslie Newbigin, pioneer of Indian church and WCC, is
remembered at 100 years
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Advent Lessons and Carols from St. Thomas Church
Fifth Avenue, New York
* OPINION - Readers respond to stories about Los Angeles bishop election
* DAYBOOK - December 9: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* CATALYST - Great Music of Christmas

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>TOP STORIES

Unity, Faith and Order commission develops vision, urges 'gracious
restraint' following L.A. election

>By Matthew Davies

[Episcopal News Service] The new Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on
Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO), while outlining its vision as being
a "communicative and connection-making body," has urged "gracious
restraint" from the Episcopal Church in confirming the election of an
openly gay and partnered woman as bishop suffragan in the Diocese of
Los Angeles.

A communiqué, released at the conclusion of IASCUFO's inaugural
meeting Dec. 1-8 in Canterbury, England, acknowledged that the Dec. 5
election of the Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool "remains to be
confirmed or rejected by the Episcopal Church."

The commission indicated its support of the prompt response from
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who issued a statement on
Dec. 6 saying that "the bishops of the communion have collectively
acknowledged that a period of gracious restraint in respect of actions
which are contrary to the mind of the communion is necessary if our
bonds of mutual affection are to hold."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_117607_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Ecumenism provides trickle-up effect

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] With church budgets shrinking and issues of
justice, poverty and peace looming, mission, in many areas, is
becoming the new ecumenism.

When membership at Epiphany Church in Marina, California, dropped from
about 200 to five in 1996 "because of a military base closing and
internal politics," the Lutheran congregation collaborated with All
Saints Episcopal Church of Carmel on a joint ministry.

"We've since become the largest social-service facilitator in the
community," said the Rev. Jon Perez, vicar of Epiphany Lutheran and
Episcopal Church. "We've had a complete change of who we are; we just
became a Jubilee center at the end of last year."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_117593_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: Convention focuses on faith, future, leadership and mission

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] The 114th annual convention of the Diocese of
Los Angeles celebrated the historic election of two suffragan bishops
and officially welcomed back to the fold the congregation of St.
Luke's of-the-Mountains Church in LaCrescenta, during "Faith & Our
Future" Dec. 4-5 at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside,
California.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_117609_ENG_HTM.htm

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NEW JERSEY, NEWARK: Bishops call for passage of state  'marriage-equality' bill

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey George
Councell, Episcopal Diocese of Newark Bishop Mark Beckwith and other
Episcopalians joined more than 1,000 others in Trenton Dec. 7 to urge
the New Jersey state Senate to pass a marriage equality bill.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_117621_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Liberals criticize CIDA cuts to KAIROS funding

>By Marites N. Sison

[Episcopal News Service] Two liberal Members of Parliament have
criticized the Canadian International Development Agency's decision to
abruptly cut the funding for the Canadian ecumenical justice
organization, KAIROS, saying it reflected the "vindictive, partisan
nature" of the Conservative government.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_117611_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MISSION

>Let the sun shine

Solar Richmond provides green jobs for social good

>By Phina Borgeson

[Episcopal News Service] Training for green-collar jobs has become
easier to find as concerns with climate change and alternatives to
fossil fuels grow, but Solar Richmond, a nonprofit founded in 2006, is
more than a training program. Serving the underemployed in the
stressed city of Richmond, California, it involves not just teaching
the craft of solar power systems, but also helping program
participants with job-seeking skills and creating jobs where they can
build their resumes.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_117613_ENG_HTM.htm

More Mission: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81799_ENG_HTM.htm

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>PEOPLE

Lesslie Newbigin, pioneer of Indian church and WCC, is remembered at 100  years

>By Stephen Brown

[Ecumenical News International, Geneva] The life of Bishop Lesslie
Newbigin, an English Presbyterian who was instrumental in the creation
of the united Church of South India and who played a key role in the
World Council of Churches, is being commemorated 100 years after his
birth.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_117608_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Advent Procession at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York

The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys performs the works of
Palestrina, Paul Manz, Francisco Guerrero, Benjamin Britten and
Jonathan Dove during this Advent Procession service recorded on
Sunday, Nov. 29.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/Advent2009

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

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>OPINION

Readers respond to stories about Los Angeles bishop election

[Episcopal News Service] Episcopal News Service has received several
letters responding to the stories "Los Angeles diocese elects openly
gay bishop suffragan: Mary Douglas Glasspool" and "Canterbury issues
statement on Los Angeles' election of openly gay bishop suffragan."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_117622_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DAYBOOK

>On December 9, 2009...

* 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 December 9, 1843, the world's first commercial
Christmas cards were created in England. On December 9, 1893, George
Job Elvey, English sacred music composer and organist, died at
Windlesham, Surrey, England.

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>CATALYST

"Great Music of Christmas" from Church Publishing, Inc., by the
Cathedral & Boys and Girls Choirs of St. John's, Denver, directed by
Donald Pearson, CD, c. 1996, $18

[Church Publishing, Inc.] This CD features old and new hymns and
carols from The Hymnal 1982.

>Track List:

>1. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
>2. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
>3. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
>4. Unto Us a Boy is Born
>5. Away in a Manger
>6. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
>7. A Child is Born in Bethlehem
>8. The Angel Gabriel
>9. The Snow Lay on the Ground
>10. A La Ru
>11. From Heaven Above Earth I Come
>12. 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
>13. Angels We Have Heard on High
>14. Joy To the World
>15. O Little Town of Bethlehem
>16. Lully, Lullay
>17. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
>18. Nova, Nova
>19. In the Bleak Midwinter
>20. On This Day
>21. A Stable Lamp is Lighted
>22. Now Greet the Swiftly Changing Year
>23. Silent Night
>24. Good Christian Friends, Rejoice
>25. What Child is This
>26. O Come, All Ye Faithful

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