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What's New This Week

ALL THE NEW URLS we receive each week are here. We list two (sometimes three) weeks' worth, cycling the old ones off each week. As they disappear from this page, you'll find the links moved to their natural home categories in our resource pages.

If you can't find something that was once here, you can look in our archives or try the AO search engine. It searches our entire site, and it can also search all of the sites to which we link.


Week of 6 January 2002

Associations, Guilds, and Ministries
Adelynrood: The Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross, an episcopal laywoman's group dedicated to intercessory prayer. It is located in Byfield Massachusetts, USA, and is a retreat centre.

Australia
Victoria: Eltham and Research, St Margaret and Transfiguration (Melbourne)

Basics
The Living Church Foundation has recently launched FaithLinks, stories and spiritual resources specifically for adult inquirers.

Books
Grove Books Ltd, British publisher of Christian books, is now online.

Canada
Ontario: St Thomas, Trinity (Huron)

Church History
Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Corporal Works of Mercy: a searchable database of British wall paintings.

Discussion Groups
The Anglican Women's CircleChat has moved from Ecunet to Majordomo. To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@justus.anglican.org saying 'subscribe AWCC' or 'subscribe AWCC-digest' or see the moderator's website at http://maffin.net/june/

Episcopal Elections
Ongoing
The Diocese of Western Louisiana is evaluating nominations and will announce a slate on Feb. 1.

New Zealand
Cathedrals
Auckland: Cathedral of the Holy Trinity

News Centre
Rumours about imminent retirement of ABC. An interview with the Astronomer Royal. Church and state in Canada. Christian Pilgrimage. African bishops' voices. The Hollingworth issue as seen from Scotland. Survey of churchgoers' politics. We hear from the suspended Irish dean. Soundproof belltowers; end of an ancient church. Perplexity about the Diocese of Cariboo. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Official publications
The Scottish Episcopalian, the newspaper of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Not in the Communion
Apostolic Catholic Church-Western Rite: a community of Christians comprising an autocephalous (i.e. independent and self-governing) Catholic Jurisdiction.

Odds and Ends
Bible crosswords: Online crossword puzzles for every book and chapter of the New Testament. Provided by St Martin-in-the-fields, Coventry, England.

Scotland
Dumbarton: St Augustine (Glasgow & Galloway)

USA
Colorado: Gunnison, Good Samaritan (Colorado)

World
Singapore: Church of our Saviour (Singapore)
Singapore: Holy Trinity (Singapore)
Singapore: Light of Christ (Singapore)
Singapore: St Hilda (Singapore)
Singapore: St James (Singapore)

Worth Noting
In praise of euphony: David McKie prattles quaintly in The Guardian about the English custom of naming the aggregated multi-church parishes that result from combining small and declining churches.

Complex reality at street level: Arthur Jones of the National Catholic Reporter (USA) writes about the Revd Alice Callaghan, an Episcopal priest who was previously an RC nun, and her community centre for garment workers in Los Angeles.

Soul searching: Richard Holloway, former primate of the Scottish Episcopal Church, writes in the Sunday Herald about human cloning.

Christians still unable to pray in peace: Peter Foster writes in The Telegraph about Christians in Afghanistan.

New year's wishes: Desmond Tutu writes for The Guardian (London).

Who can transcend illusion? Daniel Johnson writes for The Telegraph on the waning of Anglican England.

Lincolnshire, Inspiration for a Church Crawl: Richard Ruda writes in The New York Times about churches in Lincolnshire.

Youth
The Diocese of British Columbia has vacancies for volunteers interested in working at our Diocesan camp, Camp Columbia over the coming Canadian summer (22 June 2002 to 25 August 2002). We are particularly interested in youth with formal training and experience as Life Guards, or in canoeing (including kayaks) or in cooking. During this period we are holding eight camps for youth. Details of these can be found at our web site www.campcolumbia.com. For further details contact Ian Rice (Executive Director) at 1-866-946-3751 or at campcolumbia@telus.net


Week of 30 December 2001

Epiphany resources
Our collection of links for Epiphany. Know of something we've missed? Tell us.


Biblical resources
The NRSV Bible online, complete with the Apocrypha.

Canada
Ontario: Cambridge, Trinity (Huron)
Ontario: Kemptville, St James the Apostle (Ontario)

Dead bishops
The Evangelical Bishop: The J.C. Ryle Bookshelf 'Biographical information and selected writings of the Rt. Rev. J.C. Ryle, D.D., first Bishop of Liverpool'.

England
Grimsby, St James (Lincoln)
Hatfield, Parish Church (St Albans)

Essays
The Rt Revd Pierre Whalon's
essay on becoming a bishop.

News Centre
Fires and Governors-General in Australia. Secularism on the rise in the USA. Muslim and Christian images of God. Primate of Uganda asks death sentence commute. Suffolk church finds 14th-century murals. Church sculpture replica? An interview with Alpha's Nicky Gumbel. More on the diocesan split in Kenya. Cathedrals welcome decline in visitors. African reflections on Christmas. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Youth
Diocese of Mississippi Youth and Young Adults Links, resources, activities.

Worth Noting
Bread of life The lead article in The Times on Christmas Eve. 'God chose to come to us not in tinsel but in the travail of human suffering, and lived out the way of love to the point of being nailed to a cross.'

The sweet smell of burning incense - a gift of unreserved love
 An essay by Kenneth Macnab in The Times on why scent can reach where other senses don't go. And whilst we're on the topic, you might like to read (or read again) AO News Editor Brian Reid's essay on the mystery of myrrh.

What are we doing, in God's name? 'The smoke has cleared in New York. Western man has witnessed a mad tragedy actuated by faith. But it is not clear whether for most people this only underlines the need for a God'. An opinion column in The Times, by Matthew Parris.


Week of 23 December 2001

Canada
Ontario: Peterborough, All Saints (Toronto)

Christian Education
Caledonia School of Mutual Ministry: A service provided from the Diocese of Caledonia, with courses and resources.

Churches in Full Communion with Canterbury
Mar Thoma Church of India

England
Chester, St Michael (Chester)
Westbury, All Saints (Salisbury) Please note: This site does not display in Internet Explorer on a Mac.

Episcopal Elections
AFRICA
Grahamstown, South Africa: the East Cape News reports that Archdeacon Thabo Makgoba has been elected as the next Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Grahamstown.

IRELAND
Connor, Ireland: The electoral college for the Church of Ireland Diocese of Connor yesterday elected the Ven Alan Harper (archdeacon of Connor and rector of St John, Malone, Belfast) as Bishop of Connor in succession to the Rt Revd James Moore who retired last month.

Ireland
Killiney, Holy Trinity Parish (Dublin and Glendalough)

New Zealand
Cathedrals
New Zealand: Diocese of Auckland, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity

News Centre
Archbishop scandal heats up in Australia. An ordained woman goes where she is wanted. An M-16 to offer have I; land-mines own a Deity nigh. Alfred Newman Gilbey. Bishop heckled in Uganda. Irish priest suspended. Church membership is up. Church and state in Zimbabwe; church and bats in Uganda. Online religious sites becoming more popular. Update on residential schools in Canada. New York cathedral damaged by fire. Uganda priests sacked by bishop. Martial arts training for clergy, or perhaps not. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
Senior Anglicans On-Line: Provides on-line links and other references for issues associated with pastoral, social service, medical, and spiritual journeys. Included in the site are parishes in the Diocese of Southeast Florida who currently have ministries to senior citizens.

USA
Massachusetts: Boston, Roxbury, St Cyprian
Massachusetts: Danvers, Calvary
Massachusetts: Hudson, St Luke
Massachusetts: Lawrence, Grace
Massachusetts: Lynn, St Stephen
Massachusetts: North Andover, St Paul
Massachusetts: Randolph, Trinity
Massachusetts: Salem, St Peter
Massachusetts: Somerset, Our Saviour
Massachusetts: South Dartmouth, St Aidan's Chapel
Massachusetts: Whitman, All Saints
Pennsylvania: Wyncote, All Hallows

World
Hong Kong: Pokfulam, Emmanuel (Hong Kong Island)

Worth Noting
Religious backlash: In today's era of globalization, religion has become a primary force of backlash against economic and political change. In The Guardian, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor writes a counterpoint, 'Reasons to be cheerful'.

Christmas: a period of joy or sorrow?: This Day (Lagos, Nigeria) writes about December 25.

In tune with the seasons: The Times (London) notes that Christmas carols provide what few common quotations that most people in our multicultural society still know by heart.

Quiet monk takes on a resounding mission: The Boston Globe profiles the Rt Revd Thomas Shaw, Bishop of Massachusetts.

This Christmas in New York, by the Reverend Roger Ferlo, rector of St Luke in the Fields, writing for The Tablet. 'New Yorkers keep Christmas this year under the shadow of the terrorist attacks of 11 September. An Episcopalian priest records how the city feels the loss of the Twin Towers like an amputation. But this is still the festival of hope'.

There are many dozens of stories worth noting in the BBC's compendium of religious features for this week. It is nearly Christmas, it is the end of the year, and it was a memorable year. Nearly everybody is writing a reflection on it. Rather than try to link more than a few of them, we shall refer you to this larger unculled source. See also the Anglican Communion News Service, which this week has 'Christmas Statements' from many bishops.


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