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Week
of 13 October 2002
Africa
Tanzania: Diocese of Mpwapwa — Mpwapwa.anglican.org
(The Church in the Province of Tanzania)
Australia
Educational
resources
St
Mark's National Theological Centre: Part of the School of Theology
of Charles Sturt University, with additional courses offered there,
both 'offer comprehensive information to Anglicans and others interested
in pursuing a variety of methods of developing their Christian understanding
and engaging Australian society with the Gospel'. The university is
located in Canberra.
Canada
Ontario: Sudbury, Epiphany
(Algoma)
England
Southfields, St Barnabas
(Southwark)
Westwood, St John
(Coventry)
Resources
Changing Attitude UK:
'Working for gay and lesbian affirmation in the Anglican Church'.
The Church
of England's House of Bishops has issued a paper concerning the possibility
of war in Iraq. Click here
and look for the words: 'House of Bishops sets high threshold for
Iraqi war'. It's in Microsoft Word format (164K) and it will download
to your computer when you click the link.
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.
ECUSA:
The Diocese of Montana invites nominations, until until 15 November
2002, for its next bishop. More information here.
Essays
The Church of England's House of Bishops has issued a paper concerning
the possibility of war in Iraq. Click here
and look for the words: 'House of Bishops sets high threshold for
Iraqi war'. It's in Microsoft Word format (164K) and it will download
to your computer when you click the link.
Is
It Just War? Pierre Whalon, Bishop of the Convocation of American
Churches in Europe, looks at the implications of the power granted
to US President Bush by the American Congress.
Europe
France: Chantilly, St
Peter (Diocese in Europe)
Switzerland:
Zurich, St Andrew (Diocese
in Europe)
News
Centre
Anglicans in Sudan. Church and state in Zimbabwe. War in Iraq. Conflict
over gays in Britain. New archbishops in Nairobi and Dublin. Final
address by Dr Williams to Diocese of Monmouth. Archbishop of York
and Bishop of Fredericton to retire. Church of England Newspaper on
Williams versus activists. Diocese of Truro to sell property. Investment
and growth in Australia. Literacy among girls in Uganda. Phoenix cathedral
burns. Arguing about images of Jesus. All this, and more, in the News
Centre.
Preaching
resources
Preaching Peace: 'This
web project is a set of reflections on the texts of the Revised Common
Lectionary, informed by study of Rene Girard and his mimetic theory.
Exegesis is by a priest in the Episcopal Church in the USA and a former
Lutheran pastor. It is time to let the Gospel speak clearly about
God's rejection of violence and the murder of the scapegoat, and it
is equally time to speak clearly about the presence of violence in
some of our biblical texts and their human (not divine) origins'.
The Sundays of Advent are complete at this time.
Not in the Communion
Resources
Friends of God: Associated
with the Evangelical Episcopal Church, 'Friends of God is a Celtic
Missional Society open to all who desire to taste all that the Father
has in store for us through the Holy Spirit when we know what it means
to be a friend of God. Anglican in our beliefs, practices and heart.
We have a strong Celtic flavour'.
Odds
and Ends
From the Spirituality
and Health web site, a free E-Course: Practicing
Spirituality with Anglicans will begin on All Saints' Day, November
1, and take us into Advent in December. Each day you will receive
a quotation from an Anglican (Episcopalian) preacher, teacher, or
spiritual director, including Desmond Tutu, Marcus Borg, Lauren Artress,
Robert Benson, Alan Jones, Esther De Waal, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton,
Avery Brooke, Tilden Edwards, Nora Gallagher, Matthew Fox, Kenneth
Leech, Madeleine L'Engle, Margaret Guenther, Morton Kelsey, Sue Monk
Kidd, and many others. We'll also include a daily practice suggestion
based on the quote'.
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USA
Dioceses
Diocese of Rochester (US) — rochester-us.anglican.org:
The last diocese in the States to produce a web site finally weighs
in with an attractive set of pages.
Parishes
California: Gilroy, St Stephen
(El Camino)
California:
Pleasanton, St Clare
(California)
California: Rocklin, St
Augustine of Canterbury (Northern California)
Illinois: Joliet, St Edward
the Martyr (Chicago)
New
York: Irvington, St Barnabas
(New York)
Texas:
Waco, St Alban
(Texas)
Educational
resources
Arkansas: Pine Bluff, Trinity
School. An Episcopal School with classes from kindergarten (K4
- K6) through grade six.
Vacancies
Centre
Have a post to fill in your parish? A vacancy on your diocesan staff?
Advertise your opening for free for one full month at AO. Looking
for a position? Check out vacancies on diocesan web sites throughout
the communion. Visit the Vacancies Centre
for more.
World
Diocese of the Windward Islands — windwardislands.anglican.org
(The Church in the Province of the West Indies)
Worth
Noting
Apples: Chew
on this. How do we keep our faith when the sun, like love, abandons
us? In Killing the Buddha, Bia Lowe broods on apples, eclipses,
love, princesses, and the loss of innocence, in prose as rich and
lush as brocade.
Extraordinary
experiences: Christopher Howse, writing in The Telegraph, reviews
the book 'A Deep but Dazzling Darkness', edited by Lucy Lethbridge
and Selina O'Grady.
Fire
from Heaven: In Killing the Buddha (again), Scott Carlson reviews
'two new books about fire and firefighters that illuminate the varied
relationships between nature, faith, and salvation'.
Jesus
goes to the disco: Writing in The Spectator, 'Mary Wakefield finds a gang of missionaries in the sex-and-drug-fuelled raves of Ibiza'.
A
life of prayer: The Skagit Valley Herald reports on the life of
an Episcopal monk on an island not far from Seattle. |
