Week of 25 February 2001
Australia
Resources
Camp Ichthus: A youth-orientated camping programme run by the Diocese of Grafton. Seven camps run throughout the year and are directed
to 350 students ranging in age from year 4 primary to university-aged students. -- http://www.geocities.com/campichthus
Books
'Psalms Breathing: Meditating the Psalms with Music, Movement, and Silence': The author is a communicant of the Episcopal Church and
a practising psychiatrist working with seriously ill patients in a state hospital. He writes that his book 'presents a spiritual discipline
based on the psalms, using my own simple music, movements, and the practice of intentional silence, to go deep into the psalms, beyond
words'. More information about the book, available both in PDF and soft-cover paperback format, from his home page. -- http://home.att.net/~l.n.gruber
Canada
Alberta: Fort Macleod, Christ Church (Calgary) -- http://www.telusplanet.net/public/wygiera
Manitoba: Winnipeg, Holy Trinity (Rupert's Land) -- http://www.holytrinity.mb.ca
Prince Edward Island: Parishes of London and Springfield (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island) -- http://www.newlondonspringfield.homestead.com/
Discuss
Anglican Online Interactive Forum: A web forum devoted to Anglican and Episcopal issues. The sign-up process is a bit tedious, but
since there are so few Anglican-specific web forums, if you like this kind of thing, you might not mind. (Please note that despite the
name this forum has nothing to do with us. And we're plural.) -- http://www.anglicanforum.cjb.net
England
Barton Seagrave, St Botolph (Peterborough) http://www.st-botolphs.org.uk
Bedford, Leigh, St Thomas with All Saints (Manchester) http://www.stthomasleigh.org.uk
Blackwell (West Darlington), All Saints and Salutation (Durham) http://www.allsaintschurch-blackwell.org.uk
Brighton and Hove, St Barnabas and St Agnes (Chichester) -- http://stbarnabas.homestead.com
Broomhill and Broomhall, St Mark (Sheffield) http://www.stmarkssheffield.co.uk
Bury, All Saints (Manchester) http://www.allsaintsbury.co.uk
Cheddar, St Andrew (Bath and Wells) http://ourworld.compuserve.co.uk/Standcheddar1/index.html
Thame Valley Team Ministry, comprising nine churches. (Oxford) --
http://www.tvtm.org.uk
Resources
Curved Vision Theatre: 'A theatrical consultancy which works with churches (and all of the members of CVT are Anglicans). We provide support,
education and training for any kind of event in which there is anything 'dramatic' or 'theatrical'. Have a look at the workshops on offer:
they're most interesting. -- http://www.newnet.org.uk/cvt/
Episcopal Elections
Nominees for the ninth Bishop of Atlanta (ECUSA). -- http://www.episcopal-atl.org/contents.htm
Exchanges
US->Wales
A priest in ECUSA is looking for an exchange in an English-speaking congregation in Wales during July 2001. Parish in Marshfield Massachusetts,
USA. There are two Sunday Services 8 and 9:30 am. The congregation has an average Sunday attendance of 78 (both services). The rectory
in this oceanside community can accommodate a couple and there are two futons. There is also a resident cat that would like some company.
Marshfield is an easy drive to Boston or to Cape Cod and other historic New England locations. For more information contact the Reverend
Barbara Peterson, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, revbap@aol.com.
Guilds, Associations
Anglican Fellowship of Prayer: 'The only worldwide prayer organization for both men and women in the Anglican Communion'. -- http://www.AFPCanada.homestead.com
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Lent and Easter Resources
Links to our collection of resources for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.
Miscellaneous
Are you an Anglican? And a poet? Research is being done towards collecting a worldwide Anthology of Modern Anglican Poets: 1950present.
The potential publisher is soliciting information regarding suggestions of names and manuscripts of Anglican poets who may fit into this
category. Here are the criteria for submission:
1) Poets from 1950 to the present must either have been raised Anglican
or consider themselves to be currently active members of the Anglican Communion worldwide;
2) Poets must have a substantial body of published work, preferably in the field of poetry (but not limited to that), either in journals
or published books. Other areas could include fiction, non-fiction, or theology.
For further information, contact the Reverend Pamela Lee Cranston at pcranstn@pacbell.net
News Centre
Westminster Abbey sacks Choir School headmaster. Kerfuffles over intercommunion, religious schools, the Peniel Pentecostal Church, and
the Marsupial of the Southern Cone. Oxford scholar explains why Lisa Simpson is theologically sophisticated. The world's Anglican spin
doctors play with the symbolic meaning (if any) of Kanuga. Archaeologists in China find evidence of early Christianity. New doctrinal
commission appointed. New Dean of Canterbury. Ruth Gledhill on loss of faith; advertising executive finds God. Cardinal Newman moves closer
to sainthood; Guardian says the church needs good PR and Andrew Brown suggests it involve wombats. Christian matchmaking. Toronto's Condominium
Cathedral. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
News Sources
It has for years been customary in the world of journalism to distinguish between news and features. In the Anglican world,
that distinction has become quite blurred, as more and more of what was once called feature writing is now called news reporting. To that
end, Anglicans Online has decided that we will now list in our News Sources section various web sources that are, in our opinion, not
news but features. We knew that the world of journalism would never be the same when the University of Chicago proclaimed that it was
no longer mandatory to hyphenate multiple-word adjectives. These sources are not named here in New This Week, because they are not new.
What's new is our decision to list them.
USA
Dioceses
Diocese of North Dakota -- http://northdakota.anglican.org
Parishes
Florida: Jacksonville, Good Shepherd (Florida) -- http://www.goodshepherd23.org
Georgia: Acworth, St Teresa (Atlanta) -- http://saintteresa.org
Massachusetts: Lowell, St John (Massachusetts) -- http://people.ne.mediaone.net/donafrog/sjindex.html
New York: Rochester, St Luke and St Simon Cyrene (Rochester) -- http://www.twosaints.org
Texas: Texas City, St George (Texas) -- http://www.stgeorges-tc.org
Vestments
Jacquie Binns Church Textiles: From banners and frontals to copes and chasubles. We were enamoured of her astonishingly lovely creations.
-- http://www.JacquieBinns.com
Wales
Cathedrals
Diocese of St Asaph: St Asaph Cathedral, Llanelwy -- http://www.zyworld.com/StAsaphCathedral/
Parishes
Caldicot, St Mary (Monmouth) http://website.lineone.net/~stmarys.caldicot
Llangollen, St Collen (St Asaph) http://www.llangollen.com/stcollen.html
Monmouth, St Mary's Priory Church (Monmouth) http://www.stmaryspriorychurch.org
St Brides-super-Ely, St Bridget (Llandaff) http://www.tnhillbillie.net/wales/stbrides/english/church/index.html
World
Bahamas: Nassau, Ridgeland Park, Christ the King (Nassau and the Bahamas) -- http://www.christthekingbahamas.org/
Worth Noting
John Henry Newman Bicentennial
'Beliefs'
In the New York Times, Peter Steinfels reflects on 'A master of English prose, and a thinker of extraordinary subtlety, that man, John
Henry Newman, is the only Catholic theologian of the 19th or 20th centuries (setting aside popes) to be cited in the official catechism
of the [Roman] Catholic Church'. -- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/24/national/24BELI.html
'Newman and the Victorian Church'
In The Tablet, David Newsome, the brilliant historian of the Victorian church, considers the achievement of John Henry Newman, the influential,
enigmatic man (and potential saint?) whose 200th birthday occurs this year. -- http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00496
'Memories Chiseled in a Cathedral's Stone'
In the New York Times, Daniel Wakin writes: 'Twenty-two years ago, the idea rang out like a clarion. To resume work on the Cathedral
Church of St John the Divine, British masters would come to New York and train jobless youths in the ways of medieval stonemasonry. Together
they would revive a dying craft. And lo, a stoneyard arose on the edge of Harlem. The cathedral began to grow again. It was an idea at
once grandiose and simple, and well covered in the national news media. But a decision to commercialize the operation just before an economic
downturn drove the stoneyard under in 1994. The young masons, who had the promise of a lifetime's work, scattered. So whatever happened
to them?' -- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/23/nyregion/23STON.html
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