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Week of 31 August 2003

Australia
Parishes
Western Australia: Subiaco, St Andrew (Perth)
New South Wales: O'Connor, St Philip (Canberra and Goulburn)

Parishes
Dudley, St Thomas and St Luke (Worcester)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
Diocese of Arizona: slate of nominees announced.

Ireland
Malone, Belfast, St John the Evangelist (Armagh)

Letters to Anglicans Online
Our newest section—have a look. Or write a letter of your own to us for possible publication.

News Centre
British church service webcast. A priest resigns over gay bishop. Anglo-Catholic unity threatened. (What unity?) Attempt to expel US Anglicans at summit. ABC will be Greenbelt patron. Australia's Foreign Minister chides church leaders. Pittsburgh proposes a divorce. Evangelical takeover? Billions at stake.

All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Anglican Church of Virginia: 'Anglicans of Virginia is a structure enabling people to worship in the tradition of the Church as established by our forefathers who first came to the new world landing at what became Jamestown.'

Odds and Ends
Frankly Unfriendly Catholics, 'upholding the one true apostolic anglo-catholic faith'. A satirical Anglo-Catholic site.

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USA
Parishes
Michigan: Portage, St Barnabas (Western Michigan)
Michigan: Three Rivers, Trinity (Western Michigan)

Vacancies Centre
Go ahead: list a parish or diocesan opening for one month at AO for free. Seeking a position? Scan vacancies on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.

Vestments
Grace Liturgical Vestments (USA): Custom traditional vestments. 'A new resource in the field of vestment design. Owner-designer Patrick Boylan draws from years of experience designing in the garment industry.'

Wales
Abertillery, St Michael (Monmouth)
Cwmtillery, St Paul (Monmouth)
Six Bells, St John (Monmouth)

Worth Noting
Why Kenyan clergy should tread carefully: Kibe Mungai, writing in the East African Standard (Nairobi, Kenya), discusses the gay-clergy issue.

Pop culture and preaching: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports on the effectiveness of the Revd Dr Raewynne Whiteley, a priest in the Diocese of New Jersey, at rooting her sermons in popular culture. The Diocese of Fort Worth does not ordain women.

Alternative Worship: The Revd Paul Roberts, writing in the Church Times, reviews the new book compiled by Jonny Baker and Doug Gay with Jenny Brown.

Emerging Church: The Revd Paul Roberts, writing for Thinking Anglicans, reflects on the Emerging Church movement.

Who's responsible for church fires? Bud Kennedy, writing in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram discusses after-effects not of a church fire, but of an attempt to allocate blame for it.

Week of 24 August 2003

Canada
Manitoba: Winnipeg, St Saviour (Rupert's Land)

Church history
Church of England Record Society: The website includes monographs and collections of documents relating to the history of the Church of England. Membership is available to interested persons and entitles the member to each year's volume and a discount on prior years' volumes. The Society's publications have received favourable notice in scholarly journals. (Cross-listed under England: Resources)

England
Resources
Church of England Record Society: The website includes monographs and collections of documents relating to the history of the Church of England. Membership is available to interested persons and entitles the member to each year's volume and a discount on prior years' volumes. The Society's publications have received favourable notice in scholarly journals. (Cross-listed under Church History.)

InclusiveChurch.Net: 'A nationwide web petition for individuals, parishes and church organisations seeking to keep the Church of England inclusive and welcoming in the aftermath of the Canon Jeffrey John controversy. It is not a new organisation but a grassroots lobby of "moderate and open opinion" within the Church'.

Letters to Anglicans Online
Have a look and a read. And you can write a letter of your own for possible publication.

News Centre
Voices of bishops. Denying the alligator (allegator?). Harare bishop reaches for increased powers. Kenya's churches urged to resist the West. New Liberian leader is an Anglican official. Murdered Melanesian Brothers were not spies. New cathedral in Ghana. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
The Anglican Church International Communion: Formed 17 November 2001 in Atlanta [Georgia, USA]. 'The new communion is the first step toward bringing greater unity to the much splintered continuing "churches" throughout the world.  The guiding principles state "this is a traditional communion dedicated to bring peace and unity to all anglican worshipers," and adhere to the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer. Signatories to this historic document are The Rt. Rev. Larry W. Johnson, Bishop of Virginia; The Rt. Rev. Lafond LaPointe, Bishop of Haiti; The Rt. Rev. Luther Pierre-Toussaint, Bishop of Haiti; The Rt. Rev. Vincent Thakore, Bishop of the South; and The Rt. Rev. Melvin H. Pickering, Bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Sacrament'.
     The one diocese at the moment—we think it's a diocese, although it's not linked from the ACIC home page—is the Anglican Church in Virginia, whose URL is www.theanglicanchurch.net. (We're confused by now, we admit it.)

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USA
Cathedrals
Tennessee: Knoxville, St John's Cathedral (East Tennessee)

Parishes
California: Riverside, St Michael (Los Angeles)
Georgia: Savannah, Saint Francis of the Islands (Georgia)
Tennessee: Chattanooga, Christ Church (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Chattanooga, Grace (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Chattanooga, St Martin (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Cleveland, St Luke (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Greenville, St James (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Kingsport, St Timothy (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Knoxville, St Thomas (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Morristown, All Saints (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Newport, Annunciation (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: South Pittsburg, Christ Church (East Tennessee)

Vacancies Centre
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Worth Noting

C of E, RIP: The Anglican church's infighting about gays masks the real issue—that its days are numbered. In The Guardian, Theo Hobson argues that the current row over homosexuality is really an argument about the structure of the church. (Interested in more of Hobson's essays on disestablishment? See http://www.disestablish.co.uk.)

Antay Bilgutay: Finally, his faith finds a welcoming home. 'I grew up without religion. It was a choice my parents made, one being Muslim, the other Lutheran...'

Kindness begins in the hearts of innocents: the Sydney Morning Herald reports on an interfaith effort to combat prejudice in a school in New South Wales.

A view from Barbados: Caribbean writer Peter Laurie, writing in the Barbados Daily Nation, reflects on the short- and long-term impact of the Gene Robinson appointment.