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Week of 26 October 2003

Books, Magazines, and Authors
eChurch Active: A new UK print magazine devoted to the use of technology in the church, to launch in November. 'eChurch Active is published by Active Media Publishing Ltd., a newly formed company established to explore, from a non-denominational perspective, the way in which the church uses technology to enhance its life.' The first 1000 people who register with them will receive a year's issues at no charge. Those tardy ones missing from the first thousand receive instead a 20 percent discount on the 30 UKP annual fee. (Cross-listed in England/resources.)

Corner Bookshop: Owned by St John's Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, this 'ecumenical, inclusive, and liberal,' non-profit shop serves the province and beyond with a mail-order service. 'We stock all publications produced by the Scottish Episcopal Church'. (Cross-listed under Scotland/Resources.)

England
Caistor, St Peter and St Paul (Lincoln)
Cleetorpes, St Aidan (Lincoln)
Grasby, All Saints (Lincoln)
Grimsby, Fairfield, St Matthew (Lincoln)
Morton, St Paul (Lincoln)
Mumby, St Thomas of Canterbury (Lincoln)
Ordsell, All Hallows (Southwell)
Scartho, St Giles (Lincoln)
Sudbrooke, Parish of St Edward the Confessor (Lincoln)
Ulceby, All Saints and Fordington (Lincoln)
Willoughby, St Helena (Lincoln)

Resources
eChurch Active: A new UK print magazine devoted to the use of technology in the church, to launch in November. 'eChurch Active is published by Active Media Publishing Ltd., a newly formed company established to explore, from a non-denominational perspective, the way in which the church uses technology to enhance its life.' The first 1000 people who register with them will receive a year's issues at no charge. Those tardy ones missing from the first thousand receive instead a 20 percent discount on the 30 UKP annual fee. (Cross-listed in Books, Magazines, and Authors.)

Letters to Anglicans Online
It was a busy week for our letters page, with nearly 20 new letters. Have a read. Write a letter of your own.

New Zealand
Arrowtown, St Paul (Dunedin)
Ashhurst, St Mary Magdalene (Wellington)
Avonhead, St Christopher (Christchurch) [Note: A 'new site "coming soon"'.]
Balclutha, Balclutha Anglican Parish (Dunedin)
Bishopdale, Bishopdale Anglican Church (Nelson)
Komako, St Bartholomew (Wellington)
North Dunedin, All Saints (Dunedin)
Queenstown, St Peter (Dunedin)
Wanaka, St Columba (Dunedin)
Wanganui, St Peter (Wellington)

News Centre
Charge of impropriety in Zimbabwe, but perpetrators not gay. United Anglican Church leader dies, in Rome. Halfway to Lambeth conference in Manchester. Rumblings and threats and press releases over schism. Charges of creating an 'Anglican pope'. Parish files lawsuit against Pittsburgh diocese. Primates and bishops write to each other. Gene Robinson has a place to stand. Major newspapers follow the money.

Scotland
Cathedrals
Oban, Cathedral Church of St John the Divine, Diocese of Argyll and The Isles
Millport, Cathedral of The Isles and Collegiate Church of the Holy Spirit, Diocese of Argyll and The Isles

Parishes
Aberdeen (West Hill), Trinity (Aberdeen and Orkney)
Dundee, St Ninian (Brechin)
Ellon, St Mary-on-the-Rock (Aberdeen and Orkney)
Glasgow - Pollokshields, St Ninian (Glasgow and Galloway)

Resources
Corner Bookshop: Owned by St John's Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, this 'ecumenical, inclusive, and liberal,' non-profit shop serves the province and beyond with a mail-order service. 'We stock all publications produced by the Scottish Episcopal Church'. (Cross-listed under Resources/Books, Magazines, and Authors.)

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Vestments
F.A. Dumont: The UK source offers a large selection of church supplies.

USA
Iowa: Des Moines, St Mark (Iowa)
Iowa: Mason City, St John (Iowa)
Iowa: Muscatine, Trinity (Iowa)
Iowa: Waterloo, Trinity (Iowa)
Missouri: St Louis, St Peter (Missouri)
New Jersey: Newton, Christ Church (Newark)
New Jersey: Ramsey, St John (Newark)
New Jersey: Ridgewood, Christ Church (Newark)
New York: Highland Park, Holy Trinity (New York)
New York: New York (Chelsea), Holy Apostles (New York) [Note: Sermons available in streaming audio.]
New York: Newburg, St George (New York)
New York: North Salem, St James (New York)
New York: Southampton, St John (Long Island)
New York: Wappingers Falls, Zion (New York)
New York: West Park, Ascension (New York)
Ohio: New Albany, All Saints (Southern Ohio)
Pennsylvania: Franklin Park, St Brendan (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Glenshaw, Our Savior (Pittsburgh)
Virginia: Arlington, San Jose (Virginia) [Note: A Spanish-speaking congregation.]
Virginia: Forest, St Stephen (Southwestern Virginia)
Virginia: Goochland, St Francis (Virginia) [Note: A new church to begin services in early 2004.]
Virginia: Lexington, R. E. Lee Memorial (Southwestern Virginia)
Virginia: Lynchburg, Grace Church (Southwestern Virginia)
Virginia: Lynchburg, St John (Southwestern Virginia)
Virginia: Lynchburg, St Paul (Southwestern Virginia)
Virginia: Salem, St Paul (Southwestern Virginia)
Virginia: Staunton, Trinity Church (Southwestern Virginia)

Educational resources
Texas: Waco, St Paul's Episcopal Day School Preschool through sixth grade.

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.

Worth Noting
The Church and Homosexuality: A thorough study of the Bible and homosexuality by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

Gay at Birth? Nicholas Kristof, writing in The New York Times, explores current scientific evidence for the basis of homosexuality.

God in the Life of Alan Wilson: An interview with the new Bishop of Buckingham, in the Diocese of Oxford magazine 'The Door'.

God in the Life of Christopher Lewis: An interview with the new dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. In, yes, The Door.

'Jesus Kitsch, My Lord and Savior': In the woods behind a West Virginia monastery, a writer and a photographer ask an age-old question: 'Is bad art good religion?' Over at Killing the Buddha, Erik Hanson muses about why, how, and whether he loves Christian tat.

'Leadership in the Church: How traditional roles can serve the Christian community today', by Walter Cardinal Kasper. A review in The Tablet of the new book by this 'widely respected theologian who has also had significant pastoral experience as Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, and since 1999 has served as secretary and now president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity'.

'What It Is, What It Was: New, revised, and standard—or old, original, and diverse? A new book explains how Christianity, and the world it made, could have been very different'. A review of Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and Faiths We Never Knew, by Peter Manseau, in Killing the Buddha.

Week of 19 October 2003

Australia
Schools
New South Wales: Hornesby, Barker College Junior School

England
Exning and Landwade, Parish of St Nicholas, St Martin, St Philip and St Ethelreda (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
Haycock, St James the Great (Liverpool)
Mill Hill, St Paul (London)
Sevenoaks, St John (Rochester)
Sevenoaks, St Luke (Rochester)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Episcopal Church in the USA
On 18 October 2003, the Diocese of Arizona elected Reverend Canon Kirk Stevan Smith as their bishop-coadjutor.

Letters to Anglicans Online
Have a read. Or write a letter of your own to us for possible publication.

News Centre
Gene Robinson stands up to the lynch mob. Attempt to blackmail ABC. Newspapers predict apocalypse. US bishops consecrated. Newspapers report Primates' meeting. Christianity said to be in peril. First Australian female bishop to have long wait. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
California: Cameron Park, Faith (Northern California)
Iowa: Ankeny, St Anne (Iowa)
Iowa: Webster City, Good Shepherd (Iowa)
New Jersey: Asbury Park, St Augustine (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Berlin, Good Shepherd (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Bridgewater, St Martin (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Cranbury, St David (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Flemington, Calvary (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Gibbsboro, St John (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Haddon Heights, St Mary (New Jersey)
New Jersey: New Providence, St Andrew (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Pemberton, Grace (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Somers Point, Christ Church (New Jersey)
New Jersey: South River, Holy Trinity (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Spotswood, St Peter (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Summit, Calvary (Newark)
New Jersey: Union, St Luke and All Saints (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Waretown, St Stephen (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Westfield, St Paul (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Woodbridge, Trinity (New Jersey)
New York: Blue Mountain Lake, Transfiguration (Albany)
New York: Buffalo, St John (Western New York)
New York: Buffalo, St Simon (Western New York)
New York: Canandaigua, St John (Rochester)
New York: Chautauqua, Good Shepherd (Western New York)
New York: Cooperstown, Christ Church (Albany)
New York: Corning, Christ Church (Rochester)
New York: Duanesburg, Christ's Church (Albany)
New York: Fairport, St Luke (Rochester)
New York: Geneva, St Peter (Rochester)
New York: Hammondsport, St James (Rochester)
New York: Hamburg, Trinity (Western New York)
New York: Hilton, St George (Rochester)
New York: Kew Gardens, Resurrection (Long Island)
New York: Lake George, St James (Albany)
New York: Marcellus, St John (Central New York)
New York: Mexico, Grace (Central New York)
New York: Nyack, Grace (New York)
New York: New York, Grace (New York)
New York: New York, Our Savior (New York)
New York: Norwood, St Philip (Albany)
New York: Oxford, St Paul (Central New York)
New York: Palmyra, Zion (Rochester)
New York: Penfield, Incarnation (Rochester)
New York: Red Hook, Christ Church (New York)
New York: Rhinebeck, Messiah (New York)
New York: Richmond Hill, All Saints (Long Island)
New York: Rochester, Christ Church (Rochester)
New York: Rochester, St Stephen (Rochester)
New York: Rye, Christ Church (New York)
New York: Sherburne, Epiphany (Central New York)
New York: Sherrill Hill, Gethsemane (Central New York)
New York: Succasunna, St Dunstan (Newark)
New York: Ticonderoga, Church of the Cross (Albany)
New York: Williamsville, All Saints (Western New York)
New York: Williamsville, Calvary (Western New York)
Texas: Dallas, Resurrection (Dallas)
South Carolina: Pawley's Island, Holy Cross (South Carolina)

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.

Worth Noting
Defender of the Faith: Philip Jenkins, writing in The Atlantic (US), profiles Archbishop Peter Akinola.

East and West: The making of a rift in the Church, from apostolic times until the Council of Florence, by Henry Chadwick. Archbishop Rowan Williams reviews, in the Church Times, the 'why and how Churches come to find themselves no longer on speaking terms', which he terms 'a subject of dismally contemporary relevance'.

Get up off your knees: In this new book, to be published by Cowley Press, two priests in the Episcopal Church in the USA offer a collection of sermons motivated or inspired by the work of the Irish musical group U2.

Have you told your mum yet? An anonymous woman narrates the story of her son's courage in revealing to his parents that he is gay.

The quiet re-emergence of the church: Dr Peter Matheson, principal of Melbourne's Uniting Church Theological Hall, argues that God is alive and well and that the churches are not dying at all.

Scholar Bishop: The recollections and diary of Narcissus Marsh, 1638–696 by Raymond Gillespie. In the Church Times, Jane Shaw reviews the new biography of this mid-17th century figure, who 'was typically English in his dislike of Roman Catholicism, and of the English war against France. He prayed that Louis XIV might be defeated by God's putting “'a hook through the nostrils of that Leviathan'.