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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/
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