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Week of 31 December 2000
Epiphany resources
Customs and traditions followed by readers of Anglicans Online. You might find some ideas to adopt for yourself or your parish.
Events
USA, New York: Genetic Engineering and Food for the World, 19-21 January 2001
The Working Group on Science, Technology, and Faith and the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA has made the 'new genetics' a priority of his teaching ministry. At this conference,
people of faith from many fields, disciplines, and regions of the globe will have the opportunity for substantive dialogue as they look
at genetic engineering and food from the perspectives of ethics, the environment, globalization, and science. Specific topics pertain
to risks, regulation, and requirements of the production of genetically engineered foods in a global context. More information available
from the co-chairs, the Reverend Barbara Smith-Moran and Susan
Youmans.
USA, Texas: Second Annual Art and Soul Conference, 22-25 February 2001
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Explore the intersection of religious faith and literary and cinematic art at the Art and Soul Conference. The 2001 conference is on 'The
Oxford Christians' and featured speakers include: Anne Lamott, Bruce Hornsby, Brett Lott, Hal Crowther, Lee Smith, Jane Hirshfield, and
Philip Zaleski. In addition there will be lectures by Jack Butler, Atlantic Monthly fiction editor Michael Curtis, Christian
Science Monitor film critic David Sterritt, Ethelbert Miller, Katie Singer, Joni Rodgers, Diane Glancy, Marilyn Krysl, Ralph Wood,
Willie Varela, Greg Garrett, and many other writers, scholars, editors, and critics. Further information at the conference website: http://www.baylor.edu/~Rel_Lit
Music
Arimathea: This site 'contains a number of musical settings of texts from "Common
Worship" freely available for liturgical use. The music is mainly based directly on Greek Orthodox chant and is written as a
gift to Anglican choirs who might like to use it. An instrumental version of each piece plays as you link to the page where the piece
is located, allowing people to hear the music before deciding whether to download or print it'. -- http://www.church-music.co.uk
New Zealand
Atawhai-Hira, Parish Church (Nelson) -- http://nelson.anglican.org/atawhai-hira/index.htm
Wairau Valley, Anglican Parish (Nelson) -- http://nelson.anglican.org/wairau-valley/index.html
Cathedrals
Diocese of Nelson: Christ Church Cathedral -- http://nelson.anglican.org/cathedral/index.htm
News Centre
Arguing for agnostic faith. Everyone in Ropley loses out. Recruiting children to sing. Rabbi writes about parenthood. Public writes
to The Times about a third Archbishop. Anglican politics in Zimbabwe. Scottish scholar blames decline of Christianity on feminism. Bishop
of Winchester argues that the monarch shouldn't be a Roman Catholic anyhow. Queen defends her faith. Jenkins proposes multi-use for churches.
Ecumenical complaint in Kenya. Christ and asylum. +Holloway on disestablishment. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
USA
Delaware: Wilmington, St Barnabas (Delaware) -- http://stbarnabas-de.org
Resources
The Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts -- http://www.ecva.org
Vestments
Gaspard and Sons: The well-known Canadian vestment firm. -- http://www.gaspard.ca
Ichthys Designs: A States-based designer 'has been supplying vestments and
church appointments since 1989, and has been represented at seminaries across the United States, as well as at church conventions'. Includes
numerous images of custom-made vestments. -- http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/ichthys
World
Korea: Diocese of Taejon -- http://taejon.anglican.org (Korean only)
Resources
Africa: The oldest seminary in Uganda is Bishop Tucker Theological College, founded in 1923 and named after the first bishop of Uganda.
Most of the bishops of the Church of Uganda were trained at Bishop Tucker. In the early 1990s, the Church was determined to found a university
to rank along with Makerere, the state university, and new Roman Catholic and Muslim universities. Since becoming Archbishop in 1995,
Livingstone Nkoyoyo has brought the vision into reality by founding a new university on the campus of Bishop Tucker Theological College
in Mukono, 30 minutes out of Kampala. In October 1997, Uganda Christian University was launched, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, George
Carey, laying the cornerstone. The university now has an informative and interesting web site. -- http://www.ugandapartners.org/greet.htm
Worth Noting
A Common Place: Conversation Around the Spiritual Geography of Life. Minnesota Public Radio introduces wise voices in conversation
about the spiritual geography of common human themes: work, discovery, war, and childhood. In December, the series looked at 'Children
on God'. The four programmes are available in the RealAudio format. -- http://news.mpr.org/programs/commonplace
'Privatized Spirituality as a Retreat from Gospel Imperatives', by Right
Reverend Robert Ihloff, Bishop of Maryland. -- http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/joy131.html
Sermon for New Year's Eve, by Raewynne Whiteley. The Revd Raewynne Whiteley
is an Australian priest currently working on her doctoral dissertation on Anglican preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary in the
US. There is a sermon preached every Sunday in every church in the world. Some are memorable; even fewer are exemplary. We at Anglicans
Online have been fans of Ms Whiteley's sermons for a long time; this is one of her best. -- http://Raewynne.tripod.com/31December2000sermon.htm
'Wired Churches, Wired Temples', the just-published results of a survey undertaken
by the Pew Internet and American Life Project on how churches and synagogues in the States use the internet. -- http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=28
(And here is a news story about the report.)
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