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This page last updated 16 December 2001
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Week of 16 December 2001

Advent resources
We add new links every week. Know of one? Tell us.
An Advent calendar from St James in the Diocese of Los Angeles. This is beautiful and we wish we'd known about it before today.

Canada
Alberta: Edmonton, St Margaret (Edmonton)
Newfoundland: Grand Falls, St Alban (Central Newfoundland)

Europe
Portugal: Algarve region, St Vincent's Anglican Chaplaincy (Diocese in Europe)

Liturgical Resources
The Book of Divine Worship is now available online in PDF and HTML formats.

News Centre
Big scandal in Australia embroils the Anglican Church. Moral regeneration summit in Pretoria. Anglican Church of Canada sells its national headquarters. Frescoes unearthed under Siena cathedral, none burnt. Anglican and Methodist churches move towards merger in England. US study critical of Episcopal renewal movement. A parish chooses not to break away. Controversy over new bishop in Uganda. Little scandal in Leicestershire. More on the budgets of England's bishops. Nigerian student claims Sharia court has no jurisdiction over him because he is Christian. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Continuing Anglican United States Episcopacy: 'We are a new jurisdiction in the Continuing Anglican movement. We are under the oversight of The Most Revd Bishop Gregory Godsey. We are looking for anyone that would like to share in our worship services, and especially those men that feel they are called of God to serve him in ministry. If you feel God’s call, please contact us.'

USA
Illinois: Mt Prospect, St John (Chicago)
Maryland: Catoctin Furnace/Thurmont, Catoctin Parish (Maryland)
Michigan: Grand Blanc, St Christopher (Eastern Michigan)
Michigan: Royal Oak, St John (Michigan)

World
Uganda: Diocese of West Buganda

Worth Noting
Birth of a notion: Martyn Percy, writing in The Guardian, muses about baby Jesus and training for natural childbirth.


Week of 9 December 2001

Advent resources
We add new links every week. Know of one? Tell us.
PETALS. (Parents Existing To Always Lend Support): 'Materials and a contact for an ecumenical Christmas Memorial Service for parents (grandparents, godparents and friends) who have lost babies due to miscarriage or death following birth. Therapeutic, this pastoral service of poetry, scripture, music and meditation helps parents in the Christmas season deal with their grief in a wholesome and redemptive manner'.

Canada
Ontario: Mississauga, Holy Spirit (Toronto)
Ontario: Mississauga, St Thomas à Becket (Toronto)

England
Abthorpe, St John the Baptist
Aldbrough St John, Forcett, and Melsonby, Stanwick Churches (Ripon and Leeds)
Billing, The Ark (Peterborough)
Garforth, St Mary (Ripon and Leeds)
Halton, St Wilfrid (Ripon and Leeds)
Harrogate, St Mark (Ripon and Leeds)
Harrogate, St Wilfrid (Ripon and Leeds)
Harrogate, Christ Church (Ripon and Leeds)
Holbeck, St Luke (Ripon and Leeds)
Kippax, St Mary (Ripon and Leeds)
Leeds, Roundhay, St John
Ripon, Holy Trinity (Ripon and Leeds)
Springfield, Holy Trinity (Chelmsford)
Torquay, Ilsham, Parish of St Matthias, St Mark and Holy Trinity (Exeter)
Uppingham, St Peter and St Paul (Peterborough)

Resources
Canons of the Church of England (As our submitter noted, 'they are well hidden on the site'.)

Episcopal Elections
Complete
The Diocese of The Murray (Australia) has elected its third bishop. The Ven Ross Owen Davies was elected unanimously on 6 December to succeed Graham Walden, who retired in August this year.

Liturgical Resources
Alcuin Club: A web site for this well-known liturgical resource.
PETALS. (Parents Existing To Always Lend Support): 'Materials and a contact for an ecumenical Christmas Memorial Service for parents (grandparents, godparents and friends) who have lost babies due to miscarriage or death following birth. Therapeutic, this pastoral service of poetry, scripture, music and meditation helps parents in the Christmas season deal with their grief in a wholesome and redemptive manner'.

Music
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music

News Centre
Alpha in Montreal. Bishops' budgets. Praying for revival. Sharia is a problem in more places than just Nigeria. Wonky web sites. A visit to Elmore Abbey. Forward in Faith looks for a bishop. Irish bishop says 'churches are not museums'. Ethiopian artefact to be returned. More on residential schools in Canada. Queen invites Cardinal to sleep over. Priests as magicians. Who is young enough to be the archbishop? All this, and more, in the News Centre.

USA
Connecticut: New Haven, St Thomas (Connecticut)
Nevada: Boulder City, St Christopher (Nevada)
Tennessee: Collierville, St Andrew (West Tennessee)

Vestments
The New York Times has written a compelling profile of Patrick Boylan, master vestment maker.

World
China: Hong Kong, St Matthew (Hong Kong Island)

Worth Noting
In search of a gentle God: Geraint ap Iorwerth writes in The Guardian 'Who does God listen to when He is bombarded with the prayers of different nations and religions, all equally convinced that He is on their side?'

Something in the way he died: Libby Purves writes in The Tablet about the death of George Harrison.

The real roots of terror: Jack Beatty writes in The Atlantic that the autocratic regimes of Saudi Arabia and Egypt distract their citizens from repression at home by directing their anger toward the U.S.


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. 'T
he 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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