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Week of 8 February 2004

Australia
New South Wales: Aberdeen, St Mark (Muswellbrook parish), (Newcastle)
New South Wales: Muswellbrook, St Alban (Parish Church of Muswellbrook), (Newcastle)
New South Wales: Spring Creek, St Paul (Muswellbrook parish), (Newcastle)
Victoria: Bedigo, View Hill Fellowship (Bendigo)

England
Kettering, Saints Peter and Paul (Peterborough)

Resources
Vestments and Christian Art: 'We believe that every minister, priest and church needs the right tools to carry out their ministry and that includes the symbols they use. This means we are committed to providing a free design service for each and every customer. We don't believe that church vestments have to be expensive designer works or from a standard catalogue.' (Cross-listed in Vestments.)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Epsicopal Church in the USA
The Diocese of North Dakota announced on 7 February the election of the Reverend Canon Michael Smith as the next diocesan bishop. Details here.

Europe
Portugal: Estroil, St Paul (Diocese in Europe)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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New Zealand
Balmoral, St Alban (Auckland)
Blockhouse Bay (southwest Auckland), Church of the Savior
(Auckland)
Epsom, St Andrew (Auckland)
Kerikeri, St James Shared Ministry (Auckland)
Orewa, St Chad (Auckland)

News Centre
Old bush church closes in Australia. English bishop speaks out. Tenth anniversary of women priests in England. Reflections on ABC's tour of Middle East. Irish Primate talks to Americans. Some Zimbabwe church leaders join AIDS fight. Diocese of Pittsburgh takes nonsurprising action. First African primate of Kenya dies. Vicar prosecuted for changing church building. More protests against Kenya bishop. No protests against American missionaries. Reparation and backlash in South Africa. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
Directorium Anglicanum: 'Do you believe that there is room in the Episcopal Church both for those who cannot in good conscience accept the ordination of women or gays and for those who do?
Are you comfortable in a parish where a socialist and a monarchist can have an amiable sherry and where Anglo-Catholic dragon ladies say the rosary with young married couples and exotic bachelors? Are you planning to sit back and have another gin, confident by God's grace we will muddle through all of the current excitement? Do you wonder where all the fun went?'

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USA
North Carolina: Tryon, Holy Cross (Western North Carolina)
Texas: Houston, St Andrew (Texas)

Vacancies Centre
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Vestments
Vestments and Christian Art: Based in England, this small firm believes that 'every minister, priest and church needs the right tools to carry out their ministry and that includes the symbols they use. This means we are committed to providing a free design service for each and every customer. We don't believe that church vestments have to be expensive designer works or from a standard catalogue'. (Cross-listed in Resouces, England.)

Worth Noting
Contending with Anglican Realignment: In The Witness (ECUSA), the Reverend Mark Harris writes: 'For a very brief period of time -- less than 160 years -- Episcopalians have been able to point to the shadow of something almost solid that we called the Anglican Communion, and in which we took comfort. But it was hard to define the nature of this Anglican Communion...'

The Evolution Of The English Churches, by Doreen Rosman. Reviewed in the Church Times by Dr David Edwards.

+Michael's last day as primate, by Rodney Andrews, in the Anglican Journal. The Bishop-elect of Saskatoon reflects on the legacy of Archbishop Michael Peers, who has stepped down as head of the Anglican Chuch of Canada.

Time for the church to step out of the market: Chris McGillion, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, reviews the new-to-Australia book 'Silence and Honey Cakes', by Rowan Williams.

Violence in God's name: Religion in an age of conflict, by Oliver McTernan. Reviewed by the Rt Revd Richard Harries in the Church Times.

Vision of unity allows diversity: Richard Randerson, writing in The New Zealand Herald, discusses the origins of New Zealand's successful church diversity.


Week of 1 February 2004

Canada
British Columbia: Victoria, St Luke (British Columbia)

England
Chester, St John the Baptist (Chester)
Chester, St Peter (Chester)
Chester, St Thomas of Canterbury (Chester)
London, Sloane Street, Holy Trinity (London)

Europe
Netherlands: Arnhem and Nijmegen, East Netherlands Group of Chaplaincies (Diocese in Europe)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Episcopal Church in the USA
The Diocese of Western North Carolina has announced nominees for the next bishop: The Reverend Dr Eugene C McDowell, Rector, Church of the Redeemer, Shelby, North Carolina; the Reverend Canon Matthew E Stockard, Canon to the Ordinary, Diocese of East Carolina, Kinston, North Carolina; the Reverend G Porter Taylor, Rector, St Gregory the Great, Athens, Georgia; and the Reverend C Christopher Thompson, Rector, St Thomas Church, St Petersburg, Florida. More information here.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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Mailing Lists, Web Forums
St Paul's Discussion forum: 'For intellectual and spiritual enrichment of all (Anglicans and others alike) and a place to discuss issues facing the church today. Registration is required to post on the forums. Registration is a free and simple process.'

New Zealand
Meeanee, St Thomas (Waiapu)
Taradale, All Saints (Waiapu)

Resources
Women's Resource Centre: Christian feminist organization in the Diocese of Auckland with an extensive library of feminist theological books, videos, CDs and tapes. The centre also publishes books, along with a twice-yearly journal, Vashti's Voices.

News Centre
US dioceses meet, discuss major issues. Canada's primate retires. Money to repair English cathedrals. Kenyan bishop asked to return the money. ABC finishes trip to the Holy Land. Canadian priest to sleep in streets as protest. Church and State in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Uganda. Church and sex in South Africa and Uganda. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Missouri: Carthage, Grace (West Missouri)
New Jersey: Haworth, St Luke (Newark)
Oklahoma: Westport, St Bede (Oklahoma)
Pennsylvania: Jersey Shore, Trinity (Central Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia (northwest), Good Shepherd (Pennsylvania)
Texas: Houston, St Andrew (Texas)
Wisconsin: River Hills, St Christopher (Milwaukee)

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
Canterbury under siege: Simon Sarmiento, writing in Thinking Anglicans, discusses current conflict between English conservatives and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Don't call us evangelicals: Thinking Anglicans has located, assembled, and annotated the Church Times' publication of an important new article by Theo Hobson.

God's Country: The Deity goes slumming in a quiet English village. Alice K. Turner's review of 'Mr Golightly's Holiday' by Salley Vickers, published by Farrar Straus Giroux.

Heaven is the loser: Peter Stanford, published in the New Zealand Herald, writes joyfully about Desmond Tutu.

Lent books reviewed: The Church Times gathers a selection of books for Lent.


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