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Episcopal News Service
>May 5, 2010

>Episcopal News Service is available at
>http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens.

>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* TOP STORY - Faith leaders push for climate, energy legislation in the
Senate
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - LOS ANGELES: How does our garden grow?
* DIOCESAN DIGEST - MARYLAND: Convention pledges involvement in
immigration debate, sets growth plan
* WORLD REPORT - CANADA: Primate, faith leaders to call for justice at
G8/G20 meetings
* PEOPLE - Geoffrey Tristram succeeds Curtis Almquist as superior of
Society of Saint John the Evangelist
* MULTIMEDIA: Jubilee: Episcopal Church documentary chronicles
transformation in Dallas neighborhood
* CALENDAR - Upcoming special events and services
* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS - May 9, 2010 - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C
* DAYBOOK - May 6: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "The Nearness of God: Parish Ministry as Spiritual
Practice"

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>TOP STORIES

Faith leaders push for climate, energy legislation in the Senate

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Lately, when the Rev. Canon Sally Bingham,
president and founder of Interfaith Power and Light, preaches a sermon
about the United States' dependence on fossil fuels and the possible
shift toward renewable energy sources she turns to Luke chapter 5 and
the metaphor that Jesus used when talking to the frustrated fishermen on
the Sea of Galilee.

"When it's not working, put your nets on the other side of the boat,"
Bingham, also an Episcopal priest, said in a telephone interview from
Washington, D.C., where Interfaith Power & Light, a national
organization with 35 state affiliates aimed at mobilizing a religious
response to global warming, is having its annual meeting.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79425_122066_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

LOS ANGELES: How does our garden grow?

With a blessing from the presiding bishop Episcopal school spreads hope
through community service project

>By Pat McCaughan

[Episcopal News Service] Each weekday 10-year-old Elena Forbath eagerly
looks up to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori - or at least an
image of her - while checking the organic garden at the Gooden School in
Sierra Madre, California, in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

"I like to see what's growing big. The squash and tomatoes and Swiss
chard are growing like crazy. We already pulled the beets," said Elena
during a May 4 telephone interview.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122063_ENG_HTM.htm
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MARYLAND: Convention pledges involvement in immigration debate, sets
growth plan

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] The 226th meeting of the Episcopal Diocese of
Maryland's convention called on members of the diocese to understand the
issues involved in the ongoing immigration debate in the United States
and to advocate for comprehensive policy reform.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122058_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>WORLD REPORT

CANADA: Primate, faith leaders to call for justice at G8/G20 meetings

>By Ali Symons

[Anglican Church of Canada] Archbishop Fred Hiltz of the Anglican Church
of Canada will join about 80 international religious leaders in Winnipeg
June 21-23 at the 2010 World Religions Summit: Interfaith Leaders in the
G8 Nations.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_122059_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>PEOPLE

Geoffrey Tristram succeeds Curtis Almquist as superior of Society of
Saint John the Evangelist

>By ENS staff

[Episcopal News Service] Br. Geoffrey Tristram was formally installed
May 4 as superior of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, a
monastic community of the Episcopal Church based in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

Tristram succeeds Br. Curtis Almquist, who has served as the society's
superior for the past nine years.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_122060_ENG_HTM.htm

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

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>MULTIMEDIA

Jubilee: Episcopal Church documentary chronicles transformation in
Dallas neighborhood

Jubilee, a new documentary chronicling a 12-year relationship that
comprehensively transformed both an affluent Episcopal Church and a
Dallas neighborhood located in a high-crime area, is now available
online at http://episcopalchurch.org/multimedia/jubilee.

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>CALENDAR

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/calendar.htm

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>SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

>May 9, 2010 - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C

(RCL) Acts 16:9-15; Psalm 67; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 14:23-29
or John 5:1-9

>By the Rev. Suzanne E. Watson

[Sermons That Work] Picture this scene. There's a person we will call
"Samantha," who is a good, faithful Christian. She has attended church
most Sundays for about a decade. She volunteers when needed and even
served on the vestry for a term. She always attends special church
events and Christian education offerings.

But somehow, Samantha feels that something is missing. She somehow
senses, and secretly fears, that despite all this church activity, she's
not much different than her friends who don't attend church at all, who
go to yoga class, soccer games, or just sleep in instead.

Full reflection:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_121578_ENG_HTM.htm

More Spiritual Reflections:

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 6, 2010...

* 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 6, 1704, non-Anglicans were excluded from
membership in South Carolina's assembly.