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Week of 25 November 2001

Advent resources
Golly, next Sunday is Advent I. Here's our page of Advent resources, which we'll be updating through the season. Know a good link we don't have? Tell us. There are so few good Advent calendars online this year.

Australia
Queensland: Bardon, Bardon Anglican Parish, St Mary (Brisbane)

Canada
British Columbia: North Vancouver, St Clement (New Westminster)
Newfoundland: Bishop's Falls, St Andrew (Central Newfoundland)

England
Colchester, St Boltoph (Chelmsford)
London (Chiswick), St Michael and All Angels (London)
Rivenhall and Silver End, St Mary and All Saints, also St Francis (Chelmsford)

Resources
General Synod, November 2001: Peter Owen, a lay delegate from the Diocese of Liverpool, reports for AO on the latest General Synod. If you skipped reading the daily reports produced by the Church Times, Peter's concise overview tells you, we dare say, all you need to know about just what happened.

Episcopal Elections
So is the world really without a bishop search occurring somewhere? If you know of a search in process, please let us know.

Essays
What is evil, anyway? In 'Evil: some thoughts and questions', the Revd R. Edgar Wallace, a priest in the Episcopal Church in the USA, tackles the age-old question in an essay for Anglicans Online.

News Centre
Christian ecologists. Dead Sea scrolls. The vicar of Stiffkey. Rochester, Peterborough, and Ripon Cathedrals all in the news. Australian bishops argue in public. Nigerian bishops do not. Church of England loses track of 1.5 million acres of land that it once owned. New bishop in Melbourne. The church school discussion continues. Dispute about yoga in a church hall. Dispute about the Children's Society in Wales. Symbolic violence in church today. Guard dogs imprison worshippers. Church advertises to fill the pews. GRAS meets, but not in Grasmere. AO's report on the Church of England Synod. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Newspapers and publications
The Church of England Newspaper has a revamped website. It no longer crashes Netscape on our PC, so we consider it a distinct improvement. Have a look.

Odds and Ends
The Ship of Fools Web Guide: Our friends over at Ship of Fools have gamely pulled together a web guide for, well, religious-related sites, writ broad.

Scotland
Newport-on-Tay, St Mary (St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane)

USA
Connecticut: Hartford, Grace Church (Connecticut)
Georgia: Fort Valley, St Andrew (Atlanta)
Massachusetts: Hanover, St Andrew (Massachusetts)
Texas: Dallas, St George (Dallas)
Texas: Lake Jackson, St Timothy (Texas)
Virginia: Ashburn, Church of the Holy Spirit (Virginia)

Cathedrals
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cathedral, Diocese of Pennsylvania

Dioceses
Diocese of Northern Michigan — northernmichigan.anglican.org

Wales
Aberavon, Holy Trinity (Llandaff)
Cardiff, Parish of Caerau with Ely (Llandaff)
Cymmer, Parish of Cymmer and Porth (Llandaff)
Laleston, Parish of Laleston (Llandaff)
Matthewstown, All Saints (Llandaff)
Penrhiwceiberm, St Winifred (Llandaff)
St Brides Major, St Bridget (Llandaff)

Cathedrals
Diocese of Llandaff, Cathedral and Parish Church of SS Peter and Paul

World
Bahamas, Nassau, East New Providence: Church of the Epiphany (Nassau and the Bahamas)

Worth Noting
Our good friends at Killing the Buddha report 'In connection with a book we're making for the Free Press / Simon & Schuster. ("Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible"—watch for it in 2003) we've just begun a five month investigation of religion in America. Our first stop just happened to be an Episcopalian church a few blocks from Ground Zero. KtB co-editor Jeff Sharlet's essay "Names Are Dangerous" is a dispatch from the frontlines of the war being fought for control of religious language'.

An impassioned history of piety and politics: Stephen Howe reviews in The Independent the recent book Ireland's Holy Wars: the struggle for a nation's soul 1500-2000 by Marcus Tanner.

Fundamentalism: Savage messiahs An essay for The Sunday Times by British author John Cornwell.

Week of 18 November 2001

Advent Resources
Advent links from St Luke, Gondola Point, in the Diocese of Fredericton in New Brunswick, Canada.

Australia
NSW: Moruya, Parish of Moruya (Canberra and Goulburn)
NSW: Young District, Young District Ministry (Canberra and Goulburn)
Western Australia: Mount Claremont, St Michael and All Angels (Perth)
Victoria: Beaumaris, St Michael and All Angels (Melbourne)

Canada
Ontario: Don Mills, Our Saviour (Toronto)
Ontario: Sudbury, Ascension (Algoma)

Education and Ministries
Roaring Lambs: St Luke, Gondola Point, in the Diocese of Fredericton in New Brunswick, Canada, has developed an extensive home-study adult education programme.

England
Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, Long Crendon with Chearsley and Nether Winchendon (Oxford)
Dorset, Bournemouth, St Stephen (Winchester)
Dorset, Canford Cliffs, Transfiguration (Salisbury)
London, Chiswick, St Michael and All Angels (London)

Episcopal Elections
Ongoing
The Diocese of Washington has announced its list of nominees for diocesan bishop.

Complete
The Diocese of Brisbane has announced the election of the Rt Revd Dr Phillip Aspinall as the next Archbishop of Brisbane. The Brisbane newspaper published this article about him.

Appointed
Bishops in England aren't elected, but sometimes we note them here anyway. The Church Times reports that the British Government has announced that the new Bishop of Bath & Wells is to be the Rt Revd Peter Price, Area Bishop of Kingston, in Southwark diocese. The British newspaper The Telegraph has reported that the involvement of the government in the selection of bishops, required by law since 1534, may change.

News Centre
Clergy threatened by violent middle class. ECUSA bishop for Europe consecrated. Diocese of Venezuela to leave Anglican Communion. Christians in Iraq. Columnists write about good and evil. New archbishop elected in Brisbane. More on church schools. More on the demographics of churchgoers. New primate of the Southern Cone. Church of England having a Synod. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Positions open
The Episcopal Church in the USA (ECUSA) is seeking an Administrative Deputy to the Chief Operating Officer. See http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/humanres/po-01-08.html. This web page lists no email contact; perhaps ECUSA does not often think about the Internet as a means of contact.

St Michael and All Angels church in Savannah, Georgia, USA is looking for a youth minister. The church has no web site, but interested parties can contact the rector, the Revd William M Brock, at (912) 354-7230.

USA
Florida: Homestead, St John (Southeast Florida)
Georgia: Fort Valley, St Andrew (Atlanta)
New York: Brooklyn, St Philip, Dyker Heights (Long Island)
New York: Brooklyn, Calvary and St Cyprian (Long Island)
New York: Brooklyn Heights, Grace (Long Island)
New York: Locust Valley, St John of Lattingtown (Long Island)
New York: Westbury, Advent (Long Island)

Schools
Florida: Homestead, St John's School
North Carolina: Asheville, Christ School

World
Hong Kong: St Thomas (Western Kowloon)

Provinces
India: Church of North India

Worth Noting
Divine young woman a winner: A profile in The Advertiser (Adelaide) of Alison Andrew, the youngest female priest in South Australia.

Week of 11 November 2001

Canada
Resources
Canadian Anglican history: A comprehensive and useful web site developed by Professor Alan Hayes of Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

England
Bracknell: Bracknell Team Ministry (Oxford)

Events
England: London, 12-15 November
The Church of England General Synod meets this week. The official synod page and the Church Times daily updates will both be useful resources, the latter, perhaps, more timely for regular daily updates on what happens. Peter Owen will report for AO as usual, after the session is over.

News Centre
Children's writers and their innocence. Flaws in fundamentalism. Feud in Dublin. New York Times notices the Episcopal Church. People express dislike for church schools. Remembrance day. Prince of Wales attacks modern prayer book. Archbishop and Rabbi refuse to sign pledge on Islam. Anglican women in Nigeria demand apology. Mitosis in Kenya. Sydney moves again on lay presidency. ABC says conflict in Afghanistan is necessary. Online church sees prayers go unanswered. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Theological Resources
Pain and Integrity: reform from within, 'an essay about the tensions between the academy and the church, when the pursuit of truth is taken from the academy to the church', by Andrew Furlong, the dean of the Cathedral of Meath and Kildare.

USA
Arkansas: Little Rock, St Margaret (Arkansas)
Virginia: Charlottesville, Christ (Virginia)
Virginia: Ashburn, Holy Spirit (Virginia)
Virginia: Richmond, Emmanuel, Brook Hill (Virginia)
Wisconsin: Mequon, St Boniface (Milwaukee)

Educational resources
The Episcopal Church at Princeton University (Note: This site returns to the web after a long absence.)

Worth Noting
The metaphysician strikes back: Patsy McGarry, writing in the Irish Times, delves further into that controversial interview with Cardinal Desmond Connell for a book about the Irish soul, in which he says Church tradition existed before Scripture.

Time to tame the fanatics: Khalid Mahmud, writing in Dawn (Pakistan's largest English-language newspaper) argues that it is time for Bahawalpur and Pakistan to deal with the religious fanatics there.

Sacred mysteries: Christopher Howse reflects in The Telegraph, in his weekly column, on a new book, Truth in Aquinas, which asserts that only belief in transubstantiation can make sense of the world as interpreted by post-modernist eyes.