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Week of 7 January 2001

Canada
Ontario: Toronto, St Paul's Bloor Street (Toronto) -- http://www.stpaulsbloor.org

England
Croydon, St Matthew (Southwark) -- http://www.stmatthew.org.uk
Holcombe, Emmanuel (Manchester) -- http://www.emmanuel.rammy.com
29 new parish listings in the Diocese of Winchester.

Official
The Church of England's Online Gazette, the official [quarterly] newsletter authorised by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York as an official channel of communication for lay and clerical leaders throughout the Church of England. -- http://www.gazette.cofe.anglican.org

Resources
Diocese of Winchester: Diocesan directions concerning churchyards. -- http://www.link.freeuk.com/church/frames/loader.html?bldgs/chyregs.html

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

News Centre
A N Wilson on the funeral of Roderick Gradidge, architect and self-styled pervert. Russian atheists being crowded out. ELCA and ECUSA accomplish full communion. Ruth Gledhill writes about the Taizé 60th anniversary. Traffic jam on the road to Lindisfarne. South Africa newspaper very unhappy with another country's archbishop. Various attempts to fire vicars. Christmas in Nigeria. Life after death for part of the Dome. More letters on the Third Archbishop. School prayer in Britain. National unity in Nigeria. New Year in Canterbury. Margaret Rodgers interviews Bill Atwood. Dave Munday evaluates the new millennium. Guildford canon rebuts Simon Jenkins. Oklahoma churches to ring bells before executions. Remains of dead bishop found, still quite dead. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Official sources
Diocese of Newark, The Voice -- http://newark.anglican.org/vox.html

Parish office
Canterbury Pewter: Based in the States, this firm offers a number of Anglican related replicas in polished pewter, including the Canterbury Cross and the Anglican Communion Compass Rose. -- http://www.canterburypewter.com

Religious Orders
Melanesian Brotherhood: The web site of a most interesting brotherhood, 'founded by a remarkable man named Ini Kopuria, a Solomon Islander on the Island of Guadalcanal in 1900. After being educated at the Anglican church schools of Pamua and later in Norfolk Island he joined the British Protectorate's native armed police force. But in 1924, when he was recovering in hospital from a leg injury, he received an experience of Christ, which was to change his life. He believed that Christ spoke to him and told him that he was not doing the work that Christ wanted him to do. He began, with the encouragement of Bishop John Manwaring Steward, to realize God was calling him to start a community of native Solomon Island men who would take the Gospel of Christ to all who had not received it.
   Much of the population of the Solomon Islands lived on remote islands, villages high up in the hills and bush or coastal villages with no easy access either by sea or land. Ini Kopuria believed the Gospel was for all people and just as he had visited remote villages as a policeman, now he would visit as a missionary. On St Simon and St Jude's day, October 28, 1925, he made his promises renouncing possessions, marriage and freedom of action. He gave away all his property and a large area of his family's land to the Brotherhood. The following year the first six brothers joined him'. -- http://www.orders.anglican.org/mbh/

USA
Delaware: Wilmington, St Alban (Delaware) -- http://www.StAlbansDE.org

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 Reverend Raewynne Whiteley is an Australian priest currently working on her doctoral dissertation on Anglican preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary in the US. Every Sunday a sermon is preached in every church in the world. Some are memorable; 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.)

Youth
Training Resources for Youth Ministry, provided by the Diocese of Texas. -- http://www.epicenter.org/center_for_youth/

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.)

Week of 24 December 2000

Advent and Christmas Resources
Our links to the best resources on the web for the season.

England
Halifax, Luddenden, St Mary (Wakefield) -- http://www.luddendenchurch.co.uk

New Zealand
Diocese of Auckland -- http://auckland.anglican.org/

News Centre
Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened. A blizzard of Saturday pieces, too numerous to mention individually. The miracle of Taizé. South vs north. Diocese of Colorado provides source material. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
Episcopal Feast Days for the Palm OS. 'This is a calendar holiday file for Palm OS handheld computers. It contains the Major Feasts of the Episcopal Church USA, according to the BCP of 1979. This includes Principal Feasts, Other Feasts of Our Lord, Other Major Feasts, and Fasts. Ember Days, Rogation Days, and Lesser Feasts are not included'. -- http://www.idiom.com/~keroppi/episcopalfeasts/

USA
Arizona: Glendale, St Andrew (Arizona) -- http://mx3.xoom.com/episglen/
Arizona: Phoenix, All Saints (Arizona) -- http://www.allsaints.org/
Colorado: Littleton, New Hope (Peculiar) -- http://www.worthy.net/3036979866/
Minnesota: Hastings, St Mary Basswood Grove (Minnesota) -- http://honors.org/stmary
Texas: Paris, Holy Cross (Dallas) -- http://www.neto.com/holycross

Worth Noting
A book review in The Independent (London): 'The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding secularisation 1800-2000', by Callum G Brown -- http://www.independent.co.uk/enjoyment/Books/Reviews/2000-12/thursbook211200.shtml

A book review in The Independent: 'The Book of Heaven', edited by Carol Zaleski and Philip Zaleski. -- http://www.independent.co.uk/enjoyment/Books/Reviews/2000-12/heaven231200.shtml