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Week of 17 December 2000

Advent Resources
Our links to the best resources on the web for the season. Like to add an Advent-related link? Fill out our 'submit' form. We'll be adding to the page throughout Advent.

Australia
Wonthaggi and Inverloch, Parish Church (Gippsland) -- http://www.nex.net.au/users/angchwni

Canada
Saskatchewan: Weyburn, All Saints (Qu'Appelle) -- http://www.angelfire.com/sk2/allsaintsanglican
Ontario: Hamilton, St Luke (Niagara) -- http://stlukesanglican.org

Canon Law
Ecclesiastical Law Society: 'The Society, founded in 1987, seeks to promote the study of ecclesiastical and canon law, particularly in the Church of England and those churches in communion with it'. -- http://www.ecclawsoc.org.uk

England
Effingham, St Lawrence, with All Saints, Little Bookham (Guildford) -- http://www.thelife.org.uk
Prescot, St Mary (Liverpool) -- http://prescotchurch.merseyworld.com
Salfords, Christ the King (Southwark) -- http://www.zyworld.com/Salfords/Home Page.htm
Sprowston, St Mary and St Margaret, St Cuthbert (Norwich) -- http://www.sprowston.parish.btinternet.co.uk
Up Holland, St Thomas the Martyr (Liverpool) -- http://www.stthomasthemartyr.org.uk
Witney, Cogges Parish Church, consisting of St Mary's and Blake Church (Oxford) -- http://www.oxford.anglican.org/parishes/cogges

Essays
'Our Piece of the Puzzle': AO columnist Pierre Whalon looks at just why the Communion begins at home.

Events

News Centre
About the episcopal election in Florida. South African archbishop launches anti-racism forum. An English woman looks for a church and fails to find it. An Irish man looks for his childhood faith and finds it. Islamic law in Nigeria tightens the noose. A religion professor questions which Bethlehem we might be referring to. Bishop of Iowa takes a national post. (If he'd taken a National Post we know he would have paid for it). C of E urged to make its schools more Christian; Praise Watunga! Chinese show what they mean by 'disestablishment'. Almost no English children find Jesus in Christmas. Montana bishop to be sentenced. Another theatrical production enrages traditionalists. Brass rubbing nearly rubbed out. Another utterly incomprehensible event in the theatre of British politics. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

USA
California: Garden Grove, St. Anselm of Canterbury (Los Angeles) -- http://saintanselmgg.org
Connecticut: New Haven, Christ Church (Connecticut) -- http://www.christchurchnh.org
Illinois: Chicago, Ascension (Chicago) -- http://ascensionchicago.org
Illinois: Libertyville, St Lawrence (Chicago) -- http://www.stlawrencechurch.org
Kansas: Topeka, St David (Kansas) -- http://www.stdavidschurch.com
Massachusetts: Holden, St Francis (Western Massachusetts) -- http://www.holdenma.com/stfrancis
North Carolina: High Point, St Mary (North Carolina) -- http://www.stmarysepisc.org
South Carolina: Greenville, Christ Church (Upper South Carolina) -- http://www.christchurchgreenville.org
Texas: Houston, St Martin (Fort Worth) -- http://www.stmartinsepiscopal.org (Note: Viewing this with IE 5 on a Macintosh will freeze one's browser.)
Washington, DC: St Margaret (Washington) -- http://stmargaretsdc.org

World
Parishes
Hong Kong, All Saints (Western Kowloon) -- http://www.allsaintschurch.org.hk (Chinese only)
Hong Kong, St Luke (Hong Kong Island) -- http://www.hkskh.org/stluke (Chinese only)

Resources
Africa: MANNA Mozambique and Angola Anglican Association: 'To further the work of the Anglican Communion in Mozambique and Angola, and to broaden the awareness of the Anglican Communion of their sister churches in Mozambique and Angola'. -- http://www.newportchurches.com/Manna.html

Worth Noting
Barbara Brown Taylor: One of the Episcopal Church in the USA's best known preachers is profiled in Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. -- http://www.thirteen.org/religionandethics/week414/profile.html

'Inscribing the Word: At a scriptorium in Wales, calligraphers are applying medieval arts to create the 21st-century Saint John's Bible'. The Smithsonian Magazine reports. -- http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues00/dec00/bible.html (Also see the web site for the St John's Bible and our large image file of the page featured in the story. We kept it large to preserve the detail, so it will take time to download.)

Week of 10 December 2000

Advent Resources
Our links to the best resources on the web for the season. Like to add an Advent-related link? Fill out our 'submit' form. We'll be adding to the page throughout Advent.

Newest Advent links:
Star of Bethlehem: selected authoritative web sites with the history and astronomy of The Star. -- http://www.griffithobservatory.org/StarofBethlehem.html

A virtual advent calendar from St James, Los Angeles, California (USA); 'a work of art and a reading for each day'.-- http://www.saintjamesla.org

Tate's 2000 Advent Calendar: Our submitter's comment: 'Not religious, but beautiful graphics and story in children's picture book style with a new "page" each day. Also available for 1997, 1998 and 1999. Choice of text in English, French, Italian and Dutch'. We concur: the graphics are super. -- http://advent-calendars.com/

Church History
Christian Education Classes Over the Internet, by The Reverend Rowan Greer -- http://www.st-petersweb.org/lessons.html
History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church, by George Freeman Bragg, 1863-1940. A wonderful source for ECUSA history is now online. -- http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/bragg/bragg.html

England
Benfleet, St George's New Thundersley (Chelmsford) -- http://web.ukonline.co.uk/anthony.rose
Welton, St Mary (Lincoln) -- http://www.geocities.com/weltonstmarys
Woodford, Christ Church (Chester) -- http://www.christchurchwoodford.ic24.net

Ireland
Sixmilecross, St Michael Sixmilecross (Armagh) -- http://www.sixmilecross.armagh.anglican.org
Termonmaguirke, St Columbkille (Armagh) -- http://www.termonmaguirke.armagh.anglican.org

News Centre
Random news from Sydney. John Spong says something controversial. Two senior Indian bishops die in car crash. Announcing the beginning of ECUSA/ELCA full communion. More on disestablishmentarianism, but nothing today on antidisestablishmentarianism. Salvation Army Colonel wins Times 'Preacher of the Year' award. Famous Philadelphia bells to ring again. Episcopal Power and Light goes online. Hurd Commission issues an intermediate paper, and the UK press goes wild. Bombed-out London church will be rebuilt. American Anglican Council and friends issue 'Kingdom Norms'. BBC reports St Chad web site overrun. Ballarat on unity; Colorado on division. Common Worship used at I Advent and no one is killed or injured. Another Nigerian state announces Sharia. More on the secularisation of the BBC. Homeless man who worshipped with presidents is buried in Washington. African missionary arrives in South Carolina. C of E says cloning is morally acceptable. C of E says cloning is morally acceptable. C of E says cloning is morally acceptable. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

USA
A note to ECUSA clergy
A friendly reminder from the Church Publishing Group that clergy questionnaires are due back by 18 December, if at all possible. The office 'at last count has received back some 6600+ questionnaires, but has also received some 800 forms with bad addresses. This says that there are about 9000 forms still out there ... somewhere'. If you didn't receive a questionnaire or have questions about the one you did, email Mary O'Shaughnessy at MOShaughnessy@cpg.org.

Florida: Melrose, Trinity (Florida) -- http://www.afn.org/~tmelrose
Louisiana: New Orleans, St Anna (Louisiana) -- http://www.gnofn.org/~staec/
Massachusetts: Belmont, All Saints (Massachusetts) -- http://www.allsaintsbelmont.org
Massachusetts: Boston (West Roxbury), Emmanuel (Massachusetts) -- http://www.emmanuelparish.cjb.net/
Massachusetts: Brookline, Our Saviour (Massachusetts) -- http://www.angelfire.com/ma2/churchofoursaviour
Massachusetts: Dedham, St. Paul (Massachusetts) -- http://www.stpauls-dedham.org/
Massachusetts: North Easton, St Mark (Massachusetts) -- http://members.aol.com/Stmarksneaston/stmindex.html
Massachusetts: Framingham, St Andrew (Massachusetts) -- http://www.standrewsframma.org
Massachusetts: Marblehead, St Michael (Massachusetts) -- http://www.stmichaels1714.org
Massachusetts: Melrose, Trinity (Massachusetts) -- http://www.trinitymelrose.org
Massachusetts: Newtonville, St John (Massachusetts) -- http://www.saintjohnschurch.com
Massachusetts: Swansea, Christ Church (Massachusetts) -- http://www3.edgenet.net/ironsides
Massachusetts: Waltham, Christ Church (Massachusetts) -- http://users.rcn.com/christ.church
Michigan: Allegan, Good Shepherd (Western Michigan) -- http://www.btc-bci.com/goodshepherd/
Nevada: Las Vegas, All Saints (Nevada) -- http://www.allsaintsepiscopal.com

Resources
Episcopal Power and Light: the Regeneration Project -- http://www.theregenerationproject.org
History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church, by George Freeman Bragg, 1863-1940. A wonderful source for ECUSA history is now online. -- http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/bragg/bragg.html

Vestments
Our new resource page that collects, in one place, all our links about vestments, clerical outfitters, and the like. (Maybe you can find even gaiters here.)

Worth Noting
Barbara Brown Taylor: One of the Episcopal Church in the USA's best known preachers is profiled in Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. -- http://www.thirteen.org/religionandethics/week414/profile.html

'Bible's King David exposed as despot who did not kill Goliath'. -- http://www.independent.co.uk/enjoyment/Books/News/2000-11/david191100.shtml

'God's Own Knowledge' is an essay on an important new movement in Anglican theology called 'Radical Orthodoxy'. The essay, at a website called Killing the Buddha, is a profile of several prominent Anglican theologians, including John Milbank, Graham Ward, Catherine Pickstock, and Rowan Williams, and their work to bring about a postsecular theology that restores mystery to the heart of understanding of God. -- http://www.killingthebuddha.com/gods_own.htm

'Inscribing the Word: At a scriptorium in Wales, calligraphers are applying medieval arts to create the 21st-century Saint John's Bible'. The Smithsonian Magazine reports. -- http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues00/dec00/bible.html (Also see the web site for the St John's Bible and our large image file of the page featured in the story. We kept it large to preserve the detail, so it will take time to download.)

'The Origins of Western Culture: Western culture, which is rapidly overrunning the rest of the world, is a peculiar synthesis of Classical and Biblical thought. It is fashionable to acknowledge the Græco-Roman contribution, no least in the aftermath to the Olympics, but almost taboo to recognise the Biblical input without which there would certainly have been no Paralympics!' An article by Anthony Nichols in Anglican Media Sydney -- http://www.anglicanmediasydney.asn.au/cul/westernculture.htm

Youth
USA: Arkansas
Part-time youth minister (20 hours per week) responsible for developing two existing programs, one for junior high (grades 6 to 8) and one for senior high (grades 9 to 12), as well as creating programs for youth in community. Salary and benefits.

 St Thomas Episcopal Church
 2898 South 48th Street
 Springdale, Arkansas 72762
 USA
 Phone: + 501 751-9184
 Email: jeibin@msn.com
 Web: http://www.stthomasspringdale.org