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Week of 8 April 2001

Church History
Mapping Margery Kempe: 'A digital library of resources for studying the cultural and social matrix of The Book of Margery Kempe. A goal of this site is to provide access to the material culture of Kempe's 15th century world, and especially the dynamic world of the parish. Materials at this site include a unique and extensive database of images of East Anglian parish churches. Other resources include the Middle English text and related devotional writings and saints' lives; documents about daily life, politics and commerce in 15th century Lynn; maps of pilgrimage routes; a gallery of devotional images; and bibliography and guides for teaching'. -- http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/kempe/

[See also Events, below, for a church-history conference.]

England
Official
Church Commissioners: The Church of England has just added a substantial section on the Church Commissioners to its website. Amongst other things, you can find out that the CC were 'formed in 1948 by joining together two bodies—Queen Anne's Bounty and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners'.-- http://www.cofe.anglican.org/commissioners/

Parishes
Haxby, St Mary (York). One of the best parish sites we've seen. -- http://www.haxbystmarys.org

Episcopal elections

At announcement-of-candidates stage
The Diocese of Central New York has announced the candidates for its tenth bishop. Election: 1-2 June -- http://centralnewyork.anglican.org/tenthbishop/nominees/

The Diocese of West Virginia has announced the candidates for its seventh bishop. Election: 4-6 May -- http://www.stmatts.com/wvdiocese/Election/

Nominations sought
The Convocation of American Churches in Europe is seeking nominations until 15 April for its first elected bishop. -- http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/europe

The Diocese of Missouri is seeking nominations for a bishop coadjutor. The election will be early November. -- http://www.missouri.anglican.org/newscoadjutor.htm

The Diocese of Southern Virginia is accepting nominations until 15 April for its suffragan bishop. -- http://www.us.net/sova/suffrag/index.htm

Just beginning the process
The Diocese of Washington (D.C.) is at the first stages of its search for a new bishop. This comprehensive site gives you lots of information. -- http://washington.anglican.org/search

If your diocese is seeking nominations or is in the process of electing a bishop (and has information on the web), let us know.

Europe
Malta: The Anglican Chaplaincy in Malta and Gozo (Europe) -- http://www.vol.net.mt/anglicansmalta

Events
Canada: Toronto, 23-27 June 2001
(Re)Making Anglican Traditions in North America
A church history conference commemorating the Tercentenary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Sponsored by the Canadian Church Historical Society, the Episcopal Women's History Project, the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church in the United States, the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists and hosted by Trinity College and Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. For more information: http://www.anglicanarchivesnetwork.ca/toc.htm

Internet-related
The Church of the Resurrection, in West Chicago, Illinois (USA) is the first Episcopal parish to receive a glowing review from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/cong/cong_website_review5.html What do you think? Agree or disagree? (Thanks to Doug LeBlanc for bringing this to our attention.)

Ireland
Cathedrals
Londonderry: St Columb's Cathedral, Diocese of Derry. 'Built in 1633, it is the Mother Church of the Diocese of Derry. This is the foremost historical building in the City of Londonderry and is visited by over 40,000 tourists every year. It is also a vibrant Parish Church'.-- http://www.stcolumbscathedral.org

Lent and Easter Resources
Links to our collection of resources for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.

News Centre
New writing about Jesus. Sunday Times notices church domain names. Writers write about Holy Week. Bishop Holloway makes the news. Founder says that crusade to 'cure' gays was wrong. More unpleasantness at Westminster Abbey. Stuff about the royal family. The constitutional monarchy strikes back. Spat in a Maryland parish. Socialism the best religion? Church of Nigeria forms spin-doctoring group. Another cute story ends in a theft charge. Watergate-style break-in charged in England. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Holy Cross Episcopal Church: Although describing itself as an 'independent episcopal church located in Dallas, Texas,' it in fact appears to be an Anglican-related denomination. -- http://cottingamej.tripod.com/hcec.html

Odds and Ends
Architecture
Cathedral Call: This BBC site includes all manner of fun things, including an opportunity to return the front of Wells Cathedral to its original multicoloured glory with your own digital paint pot. -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/cathedral/

Social Justice
Jubilee Kids: Children and Third World Debt: 'Sponsored by the Diocese of Southwell, England. Information about "Debt Monsters";actions, e.g. "Post a Pizza to the President"; programmes for church and school groups; "Through the Narrow Gate: What it means to live in the Kingdom", and lots more'. [Note: The site makes heavy use of Flash, so be sure to have the latest plugin.] -- http://www.jubilee-kids.org

USA
Illinois: Barrington, St Michael (Chicago) -- http://www.stmichaelsbarrington.org
Missouri: Lake St Louis, Church of the Transfiguration (Missouri) -- http://www.transfigurationchurch.org
New York: Forest Hills, St Luke (Long Island) -- http://www.StLukesForestHills.org
Oklahoma: Muskogee, Grace (Oklahoma) -- http://www.graceepiscopalmuskogee.org
Texas: Grand Prairie, St Joseph (Fort Worth) -- http://home.att.net/~stjoe/
Virginia: Scottsville, St Anne (Virginia) -- http://ourworld-top.cs.com/stanne2863437

World
Bahamas: Nassau, St Ambrose of Milan (Bahamas, Turks, and Caicos Islands) -- http://www.geocities.com/stambrosebahamas

Worth Noting
A review in the New York Times:
Where Is It Written? Right Here. The Bible in English, two writers maintain, shaped the language, politics and culture of Britain and America.
  •
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired, by Benson Bobrick
  • In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture, Alister McGrath

A Lenten Meditation: Peopling Heaven, by Bill Bly


Week of 1 April 2001

Canada
Ontario: Ottawa, St George (Ottawa) -- http://www.stgeorgesanglican.ottawa.cyberus.ca
Ontario: Ottawa, St Michael and All Angels (Ottawa) -- http://home.istar.ca/~stmikes
Victoria: British Columbia, Church of the Holy Spirit (British Columbia) -- http://coths.ca

Educational resources
Saint Paul University: In a partnership with the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa the faculty offers a program in the Anglican tradition (Bachelor of Theology-Anglican Studies). -- http://www.ustpaul.ca

Thorneloe University: One of three federated universities associated with Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. It is a seminary and may grant the Bachelor of Theology according to its charter. -- http://Thorneloe.Laurentian.ca

England
East Brent, Rooksbridge, St Mary the Virgin (Bath and Wells) -- http://www.rooksbridge.org.uk/page12.htm
Fishponds, All Saints (Bristol) -- http://www.allsaints-fishponds.fsnet.co.uk
Portslade, St Nicolas and St Andrew (Chichester) -- http://www.stnicolas.standrewportslade.btinternet.co.uk

Episcopal elections

At announcement-of-candidates stage
The Diocese of Central New York has announced the candidates for its tenth bishop. Election: 1-2 June -- http://centralnewyork.anglican.org/tenthbishop/nominees/

The Diocese of West Virginia has announced the candidates for its seventh bishop. Election: 4-6 May -- http://www.stmatts.com/wvdiocese/Election/

Vacancies
The Convocation of American Churches in Europe is seeking nominations, until 15 April, for its first elected bishop. -- http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/europe

The Diocese of Southern Virginia is accepting nominations until 15 April for its suffragan bishop. -- http://www.us.net/sova/suffrag/index.htm

The Diocese of Missouri is seeking nominations for a bishop coadjutor. The election will be early November. -- http://www.missouri.anglican.org/newscoadjutor.htm

If your diocese is seeking nominations or is in the process of electing a bishop (and has information on the web), let us know.

Events
USA: New York, 20 April
Anglican Society Conference
Bishop Coadjutor Mark Sisk of New York will be the featured speaker at an open programme to be presented by the Anglican Society on Friday April 20 at 9:30 a.m., concluding the Alumni/ae Week at General Seminary, 175 Ninth Avenue in New York City. His topic will be "The Ordained Ministry: A Vocation for Anglicanism in a Post-Denominational World." There is no charge for this feature, and all are welcome. -- http://anglicansociety.org

USA: New York, 17-22 June
Association of Anglican Musicians 2001 Conference
'AAM 2001 will explore the homiletical implications of music performed in the context of worship. As we experience the variety of liturgical and musical expression that New York City offers, conferees are invited to study and reflect upon the ways in which music performed within the context of worship proclaims the Gospel and comments upon it. This year’s theme: Music as Preaching and Prophecy: Proclaiming the Gospel in Song arises out of the assumption that when a sacred text is sung liturgically—or even when purely instrumental music is played—the experience articulates and interprets the biblical and theological content of the composition being performed. Therefore, as musicians, whenever we perform music in a liturgical context, we function as preachers'. -- http://www.aam2001.com

Canada: PEI, 25-28 June
Atlantic Theological Conference 2001: The Journey Home: Sin and Grace. -- http://www.stpeter.org/conf.htm

Exchanges
US --> UK
Rector of central California coast parish interested in month-long exchange, ideally August 15 to September 15, but could do August or September. Two hours south of San Francisco in the "Pastures of Heaven," Steinbeck country. Three-bedroom rectory and car available. Flexible congregation, 110 average Sunday attendance (fewer in summer). Interested? Contact JamesRhodenhiser@msn.com.

Lent and Easter Resources
Links to our collection of resources for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.

News Centre
Britain too busy burying cows and sheep to generate any news, except about national elections, which we shan't report. Archbishop of York, in an admirable attempt to be newsworthy, makes the front page. Gustav Niebuhr reports on church unity, as do many columnists, though some are opining against it. Three new bishops elected; entirely too many ballots cast. +Rochester on women as bishops. English priest says divorce is child abuse. Jeremy Rifkin on the ethics of cloning. Ghost found not to be a ghost. Anglican-Lutheran working group reports out. Forensic scientist reconstructs "face of Jesus"; nearly everyone has something to say about it. South African bishops ask you to read the whole article and not just the first paragraph. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
The American Anglican Church: Formed in 1992 from parishes dating back to 1974. The denomination has parishes in 11 states and three countries outside the United States. -- http://www.geocities.com/ascen_stl/

Odds and Ends
Art
'Anno Domini' at the Virtual Museum of Canada: 'Jesus through the Centuries' -- http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/

Scotland
Aberdeen, St Mary the Virgin, Carden Place (Aberdeen and Orkney) -- http://beehive.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/st-marys-aberdeen

USA
Kentucky: Bardstown, Ascension (Kentucky) -- http://communities.msn.com/TheEpiscopalChurchoftheAscensionBardstownKY

Kentucky: Brandenburg, Holy Trinity (Kentucky) -- http://www.holytrinityky.homestead.com
Massachusetts: Malden, St Paul (Massachusetts) -- http://hometown.aol.com/stpaulsparish
Massachusetts: Marshfield, Trinity (Massachusetts) -- http://www.marshfield.net/trinity
Massachusetts: Swansea, Christ Church (Massachusetts) -- http://www3.edgenet.net/ironsides
Massachusetts: South Weymouth, Holy Nativity (Massachusetts) -- http://www.holynat.org
New Jersey: Gladstone, St Luke (New Jersey) -- http://www.stlukesgladstone.org
New Jersey: South Orange, St Andrew and Holy Communion (Newark) -- http://www.standrewandholycommunion.org
Oklahoma: Shawnee, Emmanuel (Oklahoma) -- http://www.episcopalshawnee.org

Dioceses
Diocese of Montana -- http://montana.anglican.org

World
Guyana, Georgetown, Christ Church -- http://www.ChristChurchGuyana.net

Worth Noting
The William Blake show now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, was in London this winter as an enormous exhibition— ˜more than 600 works˜—about which British newspapers and magazines spilled gallons of ink for months. The British are besotted by Blake (1757-1827), after generations of neglect. His "Jerusalem" is like a national anthem. -- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/30/arts/30KIMM.html


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