Week of 18 February 2001
Australia
Victoria: East Malvern, St John's East Malvern Anglican Church (Melbourne) -- http://www.stjohnseastmalvern.org.au
Victoria: Melbourne, Holy Trinity Doncaster (Melbourne) -- http://www.skyfamily.com/htd
Canada
Alberta: Okotok, St Peter (Calgary) -- http://www.saint-peters.com
England
Great Malvern Priory, Parish Church of St Mary and St Michael (Worcester) -- http://www.greatmalvernpriory.org.uk/
Headingley, Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels (Ripon and Leeds) -- http://www.st-michaels-headingley.org.uk
Ipsley, St Peter (Worcester) -- http://www.ipsley.org/
Tardebigge, Parish Church (Worcester) -- http://tardebigge-church.net/
Teme Valley North, includes the churches of Knighton-on-Teme, Lindridge, Pensax, Stanford-on-Teme, and Stockton-on-Teme (Worcester)
-- http://www.temevalleynorth.co.uk/
Events
Religious and Spiritual Diversity in Our World, a twelve-week series beginning 6 March 2001: Internet
'Author-Author' with Joe Skelly, an in-depth author-interview show, is launching a 12-week series, 'Religious and Spiritual Diversity
in Our World'. Each 30-minute segment will be streamed and archived at www.author-author.org,
beginning Tuesday, March 6. The roster of programmes is as follows:
March 6: John Michael Talbot, 'The Music of Creation: Fundamentals of a
Christian Life'.
March 13: Karen Armstrong, 'The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam'.
March 20: Jonathan Kirsch, 'The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible' and
'Moses: A Life'.
March 27: (3 authors) Lama Surya Das, 'Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch', Robert Gass, 'Chanting: Discovering
Spirit in Sound', and Dr Larry Dossey, 'Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing'.
April 3: Kathleen Norris, 'Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith'.
April 10: James Patrick Shannon, 'Reluctant Dissenter: An Autobiography' and John Shekleton, ' A Jesuit Tale' (a novel).
April 17: Stephen L. Carter, 'God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics'.
April 24: Thomas Moore, 'The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love'.
May 1: Thomas Cahill, 'Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus Christ'.
May 8: Author-Author Taped Roundtable Discussion. Thoughtful and lively discussion with Suzanne Clores, Patrick Henry, Rabbi Harold
Kushner, Krista Tippett, with Joe Skelly.
May 15: Suzanne Clores, 'Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider'.
May 22: Rabbi Harold Kushner, 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People', 'Who Needs God?', and preview of upcoming new releases.
Australia: NSW, Grafton, International Philosophy, Science and Theology
Festival: 26 June-2 July 2001
'Christ Church Cathedral (Diocese of Grafton) is hosting a festival which seeks to bring the three disciplines into dialogue. The
2001 Festival has attracted Bishop Richard Holloway, two astrophysicists, the Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts (USA), an
environmental philosopher, psychologist, a nuclear engineer/interfaith educator from Canada, and the like'. For more, see http://www.nor.com.au/community/scifest
News Centre
'The ABC visits Nigeria': the final chapter. Death in Holy Orders, but only in hardback. Five to compete for +Holloway's ex cathedra.
Wuth Gledhill visits Wooton Wawen in Warwick, finds missing keys from White House keyboards. William Oddie on Cardinal Newman. The Guardian
on St Isidore of Seville. Bishop calls for cheaper drugs. Black congregations woo whites and their empty buildings. Dioceses running on
fumes. Court deposes Montana bishop. Not enough Anglicans in prison. No ritalin for Samson. Death of Dr Susan Cole-King. Buzz over religious
schools in England. Whither Sharia, wither Sharia. Westminster dean talks about Parkinson's. New bishop in Australia. Ugly tribal conflict
in Edo churches. Another view on the 'withdrawing from Westminster' story. ECUSA executive council sends greeting to Primates meeting.
Clifford Longley about television. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
Odds and Ends
History
Historic Christ Church in Virginia's Northern Neck: Although no longer a functioning parish, Christ Church 'completed in 1735, is the
best preserved of Virginia's colonial Anglican parish churches. The quality and detail of its exterior brickwork, coupled with an interior
that boasts the only set of high-backed pews and one of only two triple-decker pulpits remaining from colonial Virginia, add to the charm
of this unique structure'. Have a look at this fascinating building, now a museum and popular site for events. -- http://www.christchurch1735.org
USA
Cathedrals
Diocese of Kentucky: Louisville, Christ Church Cathedral -- http://communities.msn.com/ChristChurchEpiscopalCathedralLouisville
Dioceses
Diocese of Delaware -- http://delaware.anglican.org
Parishes
New York: Callicoon, St James (New York) -- http://www.stjamescallicoon.com
Vermont: Sheldon, Grace (Vermont) -- http://uvm.edu/~ekenyon/grace.html
Virginia: Arlington, St Mary (Virginia) -- http://www.stmarysarlington.org
Virginia: Arlington, Trinity (Virginia) -- http://www.us.net/edov/3/trinitychurch/index2.html
World
National churches
The Church of Nigeria: With 15 million members and three provinces, this is the largest national church in the Anglican Communion. --
http://nigeria.anglican.org
Parishes
Malaysia: Sarawak, Kuching, St Philip (Kuching) -- http://stphilip12mile.8m.com/
Worth Noting
'Will religion rule the White House, or is Bush offering an IPO of the Lord?'
The ever-caffeinated online magazine, Killing the Buddha, invites a roundtable to chew on President
Bush's 'Faith-Based Initiative'. -- http://killingthebuddha.com/divine_economy.htm
So what do Hannibal Lecter and Dante have in common? More than you might
think.
Peter Manseau, editor of Killing the Buddha, looks at the Dantean progress being made just
behind the screen, in 'Hannibal Lecter's Harrowing of Hell: Hannibal the Cannibal redeems movie religion with refried salvation'. -- http://www.killingthebuddha.com/hannibal.htm
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