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Week of 9 March 2003

Lent and Holy Week Resources
Our collection of links and online resources. Let us know if you find something we ought to include.


Anglican email lists, discussion groups
Anglican Music Liturgy and Controversy: 'A friendly Yahoo group open to any topic of interest to the communion. Warning: bring your thinking caps and sense of humor. To join, go here'.

Canada
Saskatchewan: Prince Albert, Holy Trinity (Saskatchewan)

Educational resources
'Will Our Faith Have Children? Christian Formation from Generation to Generation' was a conference of over 600 Episcopalians committed to forming faithful Christians. Attendees at the February 2003 event included parish volunteers, professional youth ministers and Christian educators, parish deacons and priests, and over a dozen bishops. This site includes bibliographies and resource lists, videos and many other elements from the event, so that those who were not able to attend can still benefit.

England
Barming, St Margaret (Rochester)
Broughton Astley, St Mary (Leicester)
Desford, St Martin (Leicester)
Foston, St Bartholomew (Leicester)
Keelby, St Bartholomew (Lincoln)
Kibworth, St Wilfrid (Leicester)
Knighton, St Guthlac (Leicester)
Leicester (Saffron Lane), St Christopher (Leicester)
Scunthorpe, St Hugh (Lincoln)

Official
AO's Peter Owen, a member of General Synod, provides an indepth look at the matters that came before the last meeting.

Episcopal elections
Episcopal Church in the USA: The search committee of the Diocese of Oregon released the slate of nominees for the next Bishop of Oregon.

Exchanges
USA: Hawaii, Island of Kauai --> Anywhere
'Seeking an exchange with no responsibilities on this end, as I am retiring after 30 years as rector in this parish. Kauai is my home and, to be supportive of the transition, my wife and I need to get away for three to six months. We have a large home near beach, golf, shopping. Cars and trucks are available. I don't want to work hard! I need time to let go of being the rector of 30 years and open myself for what God may have next for me. I retire in February 2004. Email Jan Rudinoff at janr@aloha.net'.

News Centre
News from the Diocese of Jensen. Pope slams Scotland. Americans say 'faith matters'. Was Jesus a pacifist? Sex and violence compared. Salisbury stakes. Sacked vicar unhappy. Yukon bishop offers to fly for Vancouver. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Support Anglicans Online
Help support the world's most widely read Anglican web site, run entirely by volunteers since 1994. Shop: From AO T-shirts to mugs, you can find it in our shop. Always wanted to wear a T-shirt that proclaimed, in tasteful typography, 'This isn't a T-shirt. It's a vestment'? Now you can. All the income goes to support Anglicans Online. Donate: Give any amount you like via a secure online server. We're pleased to list all contributors on our 'Thank You' page, with permission.

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 for free. Looking for a position? Check out vacancies on diocesan web sites throughout the communion. Visit the Vacancies Centre for more.

Vestments and church furnishings
Adrian Hamers (USA): A wide selection of products, with a Roman Catholic emphasis. Gold and silversmithing, antiques, and vestments.

Worth Noting
Antidisestablishmentarianism: An editorial in the Wall Street Journal discusses the value of an established church.

Time for both sides in the war debate to tell the truth about evil and oil: Writing in The Independent, Archbishop Rowan Williams says: 'Lent is a period of temptation and trial when we have to learn a new honesty about ourselves—and about what really motivates our views on Iraq'.

Week of 2 March 2003

Lent and Holy Week Resources
Our collection of links and online resources. Let us know if you find something we ought to include.


Anglican email lists, discussion groups
Echurch-UK: Christian fellowship for blind and partially sighted people. 'An increasing number of blind, blind-deaf and partially sighted people surf the Web and communicate through email, Echurch-UK brings them together in an email community. Our site also has information for local churches on access and support for visually impaired people'.

Associations, Guilds, Organisations
Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion: 'A worldwide association of Anglican colleges and universities of higher education formed as a result of an International Conference of representatives assembled at Canterbury, England in 1993'. Good information and resources.

England
Barming, St Margaret (Rochester)

Exchanges
USA: Hawaii, Island of Kauai --> Anywhere
'Seeking an exchange with no responsibilities on this end, as I am retiring after 30 years as rector in this parish. Kauai is my home and, to be supportive of the transition, my wife and I need to get away for three to six months. We have a large home near beach, golf, shopping. Cars and trucks are available. I don't want to work hard! I need time to let go of being the rector of 30 years and open myself for what God may have next for me. I retire in February 2004. Email Jan Rudinoff at janr@aloha.net'.

New Zealand
Edgecumbe, All Saints (Waiapu)
Kawerau, St Margaret (Waiapu)
Mount Maunganui St Mary (Waiapu)
Omokoroa, Omokoroa Community Church (Waiapu)
Opotiki, St Stephen (Waiapu)
Papamoa, St Paul (Waiapu)
Roseneath, St Barnabas (Wellington)
Rotorua, St Luke (Waiapu)
Taupo, St Andrew (Waiapu)
Tauranga, Church of the Cross (Waiapu) Note: Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian co-operative church.
Tauranga, Holy Trinity (Waiapu)
Tauranga, St George (Waiapu)
Tauranga, St John (Waiapu)
Whakatane, Anglican-Methodist Parish of Whakatane (Waiapu) (Comprises St George and St John, Whakatane; St Nicholas, Ohope; and St Matthews, Taneatua)

News Centre
104th ABC enthroned. George Herbert. Church and sex in Sydney. Church and state in Zimbabwe. Canadian schools agreement done. New dean in San Diego. Synod in England. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Support Anglicans Online
Help support the world's most widely read Anglican web site, run entirely by volunteers since 1994. Shop: From AO T-shirts to mugs, you can find it in our shop. Always wanted to wear a T-shirt that proclaimed, in tasteful typography, 'This isn't a T-shirt. It's a vestment'? Now you can. All the income goes to support Anglicans Online. Donate: Give any amount you like via a secure online server. We're pleased to list all contributors on our 'Thank You' page, with permission.

USA
Georgia: Swainsboro, Good Shepherd (Georgia)
Georgia: Valdosta, Christ the King (Georgia)
Louisiana: New Roads, St Paul-Holy Trinity (Louisiana)
Pennsylvania: Altoona, St Luke (Central Pennsylvania)

College and University Organisations
The De Anza College Chapter of SVSpirit: A chapter of SVSpirit, a college student organisation in the Silicon Valley. Although Episcopalian, 'they are welcoming to student of all faiths (no faith) traditions and backgrounds'.

Grade Schools
Texas: Arlington, St Alban's Episcopal School: preK-12th grade parish day school.

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 for free. Looking for a position? Check out vacancies on diocesan web sites throughout the communion. Visit the Vacancies Centre for more.

Worth Noting

Lent book selections, chosen by the Reverend Mark Oakley (Rector of St Paul’s, Covent Garden, in London), in the Church Times.

America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, by Mark Noll. Reviewed by Professor Jonathan Clark in the Church Times.

It is rare to have a prophet as an archbishop: Andreas Whittam Smith, writing for The Independent, marvels at the greatness of Rowan Williams.

Noah's Curse: The biblical justification of American slavery, by Stephen R. Haynes. Review in the Church Times.

Power in the Pulpit: How America’s most effective black preachers prepare their sermons, by Cleophus J. LaRue. Reviewed by Eric James in the Church Times.

So what are bishops for? Janet Street-Porter, writing for The Independent, explores why we need bishops at all.

The world according to Rowan Williams: Paul Vallely, writing for The Independent, offers a selection of quotations from the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.