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Week of 6 October 2002

Canada
Alberta: Calgary, St Martin (Calgary)

England
Aldershot, Holy Trinity (Guildford)
Arthuret, Kirkandrews-on-Esk, and Nicholforest: Combined parishes (Carlisle)
Banbury, St Leonard (Oxford)
Oxhey, St Matthew (St Albans)

Episcopal elections or announcements
ECUSA: the Diocese of Colorado is searching for a Coadjutor. Nominations will be accepted until 15 November 2002. More details here on the diocesan website.

Events
Canada: Calgary, Alberta, 2 November
A celebration of the centennial of the Anglican Young People's Association
The four goals of worship, work, fellowship, and edification guided the Anglican Young People's Association to become a national organization, with youth groups organized from coast to coast in parishes across Canada, nurturing parochial, diocesan and national leadership over the years. There will be an Anniversary Eucharist at 5 pm, November 2 at Holy Cross Church (formerly St. Cyprian's) at 2828 19th Street NW, Calgary. The celebrant will be retired Bishop Douglas A. Ford, a former parish priest in the diocese. A catered dinner will follow in the parish hall. Reservations for the dinner are requested by October 25. Please send a check for $20 (Canadian) per person to Tom Hart, 1901 Varsity Estates Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T3B 4T7 Canada.

News Centre
The sad story of an unfinished cathedral. Zimbabwe bishop banishes his opponents. War in Iraq. Old techniques to save an old abbey. Childhood's end in New Zealand. Longest-tenured bishop to retire. Squabbling about sex. British church posters nominated for advertising award. Nigerian bishop speaks out about money and corruption. Province of Canada changes its mind about email elections. African archbishop asks for theological colleges. Church repairs rushed for bat colony. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Official Publications
Diocese of Exeter: Diocesan news (updated monthly)

Not in the Communion
Evangelical Anglican Church in America: 'We are an inclusive church with a rich sacramental life, rooted in Anglican-Catholic tradition. We embrace the great Anglican insight that each person possesses the ability to reason, and to weigh in their hearts the meaning of Scripture and Tradition'.

USA
Illinois: Salem, St Thomas (Springfield)
Louisiana: New Orleans, Grace Church (Louisiana)
Missouri: Liberty, Grace Church (West Missouri)
New Jersey: Belleville, Christ Church (Newark)
Rhode Island: Saint Peter's-by-the-Sea (Rhode Island)
South Carolina: Georgetown, Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church (South Carolina)

Educational resources
New York: St Thomas Choir School, the only residential boys choir school remaining in the United States.

Vacancies Centre
Have a post to fill in your parish? A vacancy on your diocesan staff? Advertise beyond your own national church. List your opening for one full month at AO without charge. Looking for a position? Check out vacancies on diocesan web sites throughout the communion. Visit the Vacancies Centre for more.

Worth Noting
The Dignity of Difference: How to avoid the clash of civilisations, by Jonathan Sacks. In The Tablet, Eugene Fisher reviews this new book by England's chief rabbi, who 'welcomes the religion of the stranger'.

Evandalism: Andrew Rumsey, in his column Strangely Warmed at Ship of Fools, tackles the fear of the e-word: 'Perhaps we are put off by what can only be described as evandalism – that indiscriminate dumping of the gospel without thought for the surroundings'.

How shall they hear? Eric James reviews the new book of sermons and addresses by Robert MacCarthy, dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, for the Church Times.

Week of 29 September 2002

England
Grove, St John the Baptist (Oxford)
Middleton, St Mary the Virgin (Ripon and Leeds)
Northwood Hills, St Edmund the King (London)

Episcopal elections or announcements
ECUSA: The Diocese of Easton (Maryland) has elected the Reverend James Shand as its tenth diocesan bishop. Bishop-elect Shand is the rector of Christ Church, Stevensville, in the Diocese of Easton. Details here.

Events
Canada: Calgary, Alberta, 2 November
A celebration of the centennial of the Anglican Young People's Association, a national youth organization
The four goals of worship, work, fellowship, and edification guided the Anglican Young People's Association to become a national organization, with youth groups organized from coast to coast in parishes across Canada, nurturing parochial, diocesan and national leadership over the years. There will be an Anniversary Eucharist at 5 pm, November 2 at Holy Cross Church (formerly St. Cyprian's) at 2828 19th Street NW, Calgary. The celebrant will be retired Bishop Douglas A. Ford, a former parish priest in the diocese. A catered dinner will follow in the parish hall. Reservations for the dinner are requested by October 25. Please send a check for $20 (Canadian) per person to Tom Hart, 1901 Varsity Estates Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T3B 4T7 Canada.

News Centre
Killer denied enrolment in theology class. Church and state in Mexico. Synod in CPSA. Elvis Priestly returns to Synod. Canonisation. Slain in the spirit, nearly slain in the flesh. Churches not welcome in Sydney suburb. Conservatives accuse religious leaders of heresy. Incompetence reported in church-group governance. Denominational feuds in Russia. Missionary brings water. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Official publications
Diocese of Toronto: The Anglican (monthly)

Not in the Communion
Anglican Rite, Archdiocese of the Americas: 'A traditional, liturgical, sacramental, catholic, and orthodox Church. We are traditional in that we keep to the traditions and teachings of the ancient undivided Church founded by the Apostles and strengthened by the early Church Fathers.  We are liturgical in that we use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the Anglican Missal in our worship'. 

Religious orders
Order of Saint Joseph: 'A new order for men in the Episcopal Church in the USA. Our spirituality is based on Jesus as Way, Truth, and Life. At the center of our life is the Eucharist, Daily Office, Intercessory prayer, and a commitment to responding to the needs of the Church on the parish level'. (Note: We're delighted that the web site has been redesigned and loads quickly. Now people can learn about this interesting order without being concerned about download times. Well done, brothers!)

Scotland
Edinburgh, Comely Bank, St Ninian (Edinburgh)

USA
Florida: Welaka, Emmanuel (Florida)
Florida: Winter Park, All Saints (Central Florida)
New Jersey: Rocky Hill, Trinity (New Jersey)
South Carolina: Hilton Head Island, All Saints (South Carolina)

Vacancies Centre
Have a post to fill in your parish? A vacancy on your diocesan staff? Advertise beyond your own national church. List your opening for one full month at AO without charge. This service is free. Looking for a position? Check out vacancies on diocesan web sites throughout the communion. Visit the Vacancies Centre for more.

Wales
Church in Wales: The Church in Wales has launched an attractive new web site.

Worth Noting
Experts agree: Religion is alive, well and kicking hard: Terry Mattingly writes for the Scripps Howard News Service.

In a tiny church, nature's cathedral: Katherine Ashenburg, writing in The New York Times, marvels at the holiness of the Anglican church in Banff, Alberta.