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Week of 23 November 2003

Australia
New South Wales: Sydney, Holy Trinity (Sydney)

Schools
Bathurst, All Saints College (Sydney) Grades 6 through 12, day and boarding, co-ed.
Bathurst, Macquarie Anglican Grammar School (Sydney) Kindergarten to grade 9, co-ed.

Canada
Manitoba: Cathedral Church of St Matthew, Brandon

Parishes
Ontario: Lyndhurst, Parish of Leeds Rear (Ontario)
Ontario: Bracebridge, St Thomas (Algoma)

England
Farnborough, St Giles (Rochester)
Hoo, St Werburgh (Rochester)
Orpington, St Nicholas (Rochester)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
African gays in Johannesburg churches. Sydney archbishop ponders split from Canterbury. Sydney launches crusade to convert UCC members. Bitter church feud in Pakistan. Abuse claim in Tasmania. Church politics in Nigeria. Adelaide church 'thwarts abuse victims'. ABC visits Turkish bomb site. Anglican church in unnamed province has people being nice to each other. (Just kidding.) All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Official Publications
Alaska (Seafarer of Southeast Deanery)

Religious Orders
Community of St John the Baptist: A religious order for Episcopal women. (Cross-listed USA Resources.)

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USA
Alaska: Anchorage, Christ Church (Alaska)
Alaska: Wasilla, St David (Alaska)
Colorado: Gunnison, Good Samaritan (Colorado)
Colorado: Longmont, St Stephen (Colorado)
Florida: Bon Secour, St Peter (Central Gulf Coast)
Florida: Pensacola, Holy Cross (Central Gulf Coast)
Florida: Port St Joe, St James (Central Gulf Coast)
Illinois: Oak Park, St Christopher (Chicago)
Minnesota: Northfield, All Saints (Minnesota)
Nebraska: Omaha, Holy Family (Nebraska)
Nebraska: Elkhorn, St Augustine of Canterbury (Nebraska)
New Jersey: Ridgewood, St Elizabeth (Newark)
North Carolina: Southern Shores, All Saints (East Carolina)
Texas: Horizon City, St Brendan (Rio Grande)
Virginia: Richmond, St Clare (Virginia)
Wyoming: Pinedale, St Andrew's in-the-Pines (Wyoming)

Resources
St Margaret's Retreat House A retreat house, of the Community of St John the Baptist, on 93 acres in Mendham, NJ.

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 Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000 by Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf (editors). Dr John Wolffe's review in the Church Times maintains that 'this book is a very timely contribution to an understanding of the concept of Christendom'.

Rose Macaulay, by Sarah LeFanu. On the lighter side: Terence Handley MacMath reviews this new biography.

Soldiers or Pilgrims: John Wilkins writes in The Tablet of the debate within the Catholic churches on how to relate to the modern world.

Church and State in Kenya: an editorial in the Daily Nation (Nairobi) about the relationship between church leaders and government leaders.

Understanding Old Testament Ethics: Approaches and Explorations, by John Barton, is reviewed by Dr John Goldingay in the Church Times.

Whence is that goodly fragrance? Bill Bowder, writing in the Church Times, comments on a plan by an English bishop to add buckets of manure to diocesan liturgy.

Week of 16 November 2003

Associations and Guilds
Anglican Communion Institute: 'It is the mission and purpose of the Anglican Communion Institute to make a biblical and historical articulation of the faith once delivered readily available to the larger church through conferences and printed word.'

Australia
Resources
Laterally Luke: 'Offers entry points, particularly for preachers, to the Sunday Gospels for Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary as used in the Anglican Church of Australia. By Brian McGowan, Anglican Priest in Western Australia.' (Cross-listed under Preaching resources.)

Schools
New South Wales: Beecroft, Arden Anglican School: Kindergarten through Grade 6. Blends current NSW curriculum with heavier emphasis on math.
New South Wales: Kellyville, William Clark College (Diocese of Sydney): Grades 8 through 12, recommending application by January of the student's grade 7.

Books
Silence and Honey Cakes: The Wisdom of the Desert. A new book by Rowan Williams (see Worth Noting for link to a review.)
The Madonna Murders. A new mystery by Episcopal priest Pamela Cranston (Oakland, California), an Adjunct faculty member at the School of the Pacific, and who works in hospices around San Francisco.

Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador: Fortune, All Saints (Central Newfoundland)
Newfoundland and Labrador: Lamaline, St Mary (Central Newfoundland)
Ontario: Brantford, Mohawk Chapel (Huron)

England
Battyeford, Christ the King (Wakefield)
Norris Bank, St Martin (Manchester)
Porthill, St Andrew (Lichfield)

Episcopal Elections
The Diocese of Ohio elected the Venerable Mark Hollingsworth, Jr as their eleventh Bishop. Details here.

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

News Centre
Correspondent updates from church wars. Muslim to head Church of England school. Church of England looking for media professionals. Anglican and Orthodox leaders talk. Former ABC visits Princeton. Status update on sex wars in Canada. Uganda archbishop warns against scholarships. Unchurched children in Australia. Pink Plot denied by British writer. African priest discusses his sexuality. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Official Publications
Truro (Updated monthly)

Preaching resources
Laterally Luke: 'Offers entry points, particularly for preachers, to the Sunday Gospels for Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary as used in the Anglican Church of Australia. By Brian McGowan, Anglican Priest in Western Australia.' (Cross-listed under Australia's Anglican resources.)

Religious Orders
Episcopal Carmel of Saint Teresa: A new contemplative community for women in the Episcopal Church, under the guidance of the Right Reverend Robert Ihloff, Bishop of Maryland.

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USA
Parishes
California: Milpitas, St Joseph the Worker (El Camino Real) - After 42 years as a mission it became a parish October 26, 2003.
New Jersey: North Arlington, St Paul (Newark)
Pennsylvania: King of Prussia, Trinity (Pennsylvania)

Schools
District of Columbia: St Patrick's Episcopal Day School. Co-educational, nursery through 8th grade.

Organisations
Texas: Pathways to Ministry (Dallas) A program to encourage young adults into the Episcopal ministry.

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
A desert at the end of the tube: Christopher Howse uses his column in The Telegraph to review Silence and Honey Cakes, a new book by Rowan Williams.

Blind Bartemaeus: A sermon preached at Westminster Abbey on 26 October 2003 by the Revd Chris Chivers, Minor Canon and Precentor.

Canadian won't let Rwanda genocide die: Reuters reports on the story of Rwanda's genocide told in a new book, Shake Hands with the Devil, by retired general Romeo Dallaire. He holds the Anglican church partly to blame for the atrocities in that country.

Souls on Ice: The subject of Gene Robinson's consecration has been fodder for every print, TV and radio commentator, but few have captured the setting and atmosphere you'll find in Peter Manseau's article in Killing the Buddha.

The soul of Britain: John Wilkins, writing in The Tablet (a British RC weekly) reflects on whether or not Christianity is 'almost vanquished' in Britain.

Why we need bishops of cultures, not places: Allen Brent, writing in the Church Times, argues that it would be better to have bishops for particular traditions than for locations.