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Week of 2 December 2001
Advent resources
Do you know of any good Advent resources that we don't list? Please tell
us.
Resources
Matthew in the Margins: 'MIM is an attempt to help preacher, congregation, and the
text of Matthew week by week to connect with each other during "Year A" of the Revised Common Lectionary as used in "A Prayer
Book for Australia" of the Anglican Church of Australia; to encourage us to find new "entry points", and risk breaking out
from any preaching strait-jackets, including any we use to bind the Living God'. (Cross-listed under Biblical Resources.)
An Advent Calendar from
Martin Reed, who drew the Jesse tree that we used last week as our front-page art.
The Advent Wreath 'General
information on the Advent wreath, with new prayers and services for use either at home, in church, or at school', by
Vincent Uher.
Biblical Resources
Matthew in the Margins: 'MIM is an attempt to help preacher, congregation, and
the text of Matthew week by week to connect with each other during 'Year A' of the Revised Common Lectionary as used in 'A Prayer Book for
Australia' of the Anglican Church of Australia; to encourage us to find new 'entry points', and risk breaking out from any preaching strait-jackets,
including any we use to bind the Living God'. (Cross-listed under Anglican Church of Australia resources.)
England
Appleton Thorn, St Cross (Chester)
Astbury, St Mary (Chester)
Bidston, St Oswald (Chester)
Birkenhead, Christ Church (Chester)
Bollington, St John the Baptist, St Oswald, and Holy Trinity (Chester)
Cheadle, St Andrew (Chester)
Chester, Saltney, St Mark (Chester)
Goostrey, St Luke (Chester)
Great Sutton, St John (Chester)
Lindow, St John (Chester)
Millbrook, St James (Chester)
Minshull, St Bartholomew (Chester)
Mottram-in-Longdendale, St Michael and All Angels (Chester)
Nantwich, St Mary (Chester)
Stockport, Norbury Parish (Chester)
Stockport, St Saviour (Chester)
Teme Valley South (Worcester)
Episcopal Elections
Completed
Australia: The Reverend Phillip Aspinall, the Assistant Bishop in Adelaide, South Australia, has been elected Archbishop of Brisbane.
Canada: The Diocese of Keewatin elected the Venerable David Ashdown, Executive
Archdeacon of the diocese, as its next bishop.
Canada: The Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island elected
its suffragan, Fred Hiltz, as its diocesan bishop.
Ireland: The Very Reverend Dr Michael Jackson, Dean of Cork, was elected Bishop
of Clogher by the House of Bishops; the earlier electoral college failed to make an appointment. For more information, see the Church
of Ireland web site.
News Centre
Church work in prisons. Alpha on television. Tinfoil Buddhas. Churches burned in Nigeria. Nigerian bishop speaks out on Sharia. Preacher of
the Year. Campus revolt at ban on preaching. Nigerian primate scolds politicians. Missionaries from Bronx go to London. Archbishop calls his
countrymen 'greedy and selfish'. Church attendance back to normal. Cathedral income sharply down. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
USA
Delaware: Delaware City, Christ Church (Delaware)
Florida: Homestead, St John (Southeast Florida)
Illinois: Lombard, Calvary Church (Chicago)
Kentucky: Pewee Valley, St James (Kentucky)
North Carolina: Hendersonville, St James (Western North Carolina)
Pennsylvania: Wilkes-Barre, St Clement and St Peter (Bethlehem)
South Carolina: Irmo, St Simon and
St Jude (Upper South Carolina)
Tennessee: Gatlinburg, Trinity (East Tennessee)
Cathedrals
Diocese of South Carolina: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia
Wales
Bagillt, St Mary (St Asaph)
Dyffryn Clwyd, Rural Deanery of Dyffryn Clwyd (St Asaph)
Greenfield, Holy Trinity (St Asaph)
Holywell, St James (St Asaph)
Llanasa, St Asaph and St Cyndeyrn (St Asaph)
Mostyn, Christ Church (St Asaph)
Rhuddlan, St Mary (St Asaph)
Worth Noting
Christianity
and the Making of the Modern Family, by Rosemary Radford Ruether A review in the Church Times by the Revd Robin Gill. 'The
central argument of the latest book is that the Christian right’s depiction of Christian family values is a distortion of Christian history,
and a danger particularly to women in the world today. Nuclear, life-long family life with the husband as wage-earner and head of the household
is, she argues, a development of Victorian rather than specifically Christian values. Although it is stoutly defended by traditionalists within
most denominations, it is, she believes, based on a very selective reading both of the Bible and of subsequent Christian history'.
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