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Week of 29 February 2004

• Lenten resources •
New: Times and Seasons: Working drafts for Lent: The Church of England published some of its latest drafts from 'Times and Seasons', a forthcoming Common Worship book. Drafts relating to Lent, Holy Week and Easter are available in PDF format on the website of a voluntary body, Praxis. Another version is available here, with links to the CofE draft noted above, as well as a version in Rich Text Format. Using any word processor, you can format this to fit your requirements.

Australia
Cathedrals
Western Australia: Bunbury, Cathedral Parish of St Boniface — Diocese of Bunbury

Parishes
Western Australia: Denmark, St Leonard (Bunbury)

Schools
New South Wales: Wahroonga, Abbotsleigh (Sydney). K through 12 Anglican boarding and day school for girls. 'Overcoming the frequent disadvantage of beginning their education in isolated areas and having to live away from home, Boarders earned results even better than Day Girls.'

Canada
Ontario: Dunnville, St Paul (Ontario)
Ontario: Ottawa, Trinity (Ottawa)

Resources
Saskatchewan: Christopher Lake, Okema (Society for Christian Development). 280-acre summer camp serving the dioceses of Saskatoon and Saskatchewan. The site includes an extensive list of birds, rodents, bats and carnivores among the wildlife at and around the camp, as well as information about age- and subject-specific camp sessions during the course of the summer.

Essays
Pierre Whalon, Bishop in Charge of the American Churches in Europe, looks at the question of church unity — and at why squabbling may be necessary to becoming one in Christ — in his latest essay ,'The Conflicts of Apostles'.

Exchanges
Canada (Vancouver Island) --> English or Spanish speaking countries
Vacation exchange of one to three weeks. Large three bedroom home on the coast of beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Vibrant and growing Anglican parish combining faithful traditional Anglicans and those touched by renewal. Priestly duties are negotiable, as an associate priest is on staff. Those desiring to officiate must be able to obtain permission to officiate from the Bishop of British Columbia. Housing in exchange country needed for three. Contact: K0DKK@ARRL.NET

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Mel Gibson's movie opens in the States. Australia looks for a primate. Kenya cathedral said built on stolen land. One year with Rowan Williams. Desmond Tutu visits ACO. York Minster chancellor swims Tiber. Kenya HOB grills pray-for-pay bishop. Questioning Kenya's questioners. Church growth in Scotland and Australia. Tutu attacks RC condom stance. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
California: Twentynine Palms, St-Martin-in-the-Fields (Los Angeles)
Georgia: Dublin, Christ Church (Georgia)
Tennessee: Germantown, Church of the Redeemer (West Tennessee)

Schools
Connecticut: Kent, Kent School. Boarding grades 9 through 12. College prep, classical liberal arts preparation for college and university.

Vacancies Centre
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 People's World: Alternatives to economic globalisation, by John Madeley, Published by Zed Books
Reviewed by Peter B. Price
Reviewed with Against the Stream: Christianity and mission in an age of globalisation, by David W. Smith

Contemporary Images of Christ: The Cathedral of St Paul in London has opened a major new exhibit that is the first in a linked series of different events that will take place in six cathedrals throughout Britain in 2004. Click here for news coverage.

Gift choices prove Magi were women: Willy Trolove, writing in the New Zealand Herald, pokes fun at one of the more widely-publicised segments of the recent General Synod of the Church of England.

Njoka case has another dimension: Kingori Choto, writing in The Nation (Nairobi) discusses cultural background issues related to the pay-for-prayer charges against the Bishop of Nairobi.

Standing Commission on Episcopal Church Communications: The commission was created at General Convention 2003, and, before the committee could be convened, ECUSA launched a new website at http://episcopalchurch.org/. The standing commission would like your help in assessing how well this new site meets the needs of the church. You can help in one of two ways, depending on how much or how little time you are able to spend. See http://scecc.ecusa.anglican.org/assessment/ to learn how you can participate. The deadline is 5 March 2004.

The most Christian of virtues: In the Philadelphia Inquirer Walter Cronkite reflects on the upcoming US Presidential elections and the Christian virtues that seem to be missing so far and that should be central to this, and (by extension) to many conflicts.

Times and Seasons: Working drafts for Lent: The Church of England published some of its latest drafts from 'Times and Seasons', a forthcoming Common Worship book. Drafts relating to Lent, Holy Week and Easter are available in PDF format on the website of a voluntary body, Praxis. Another version is available here, with links to the CofE draft noted above, as well as a version in Rich Text Format. Using any word processor, you can format this to fit your requirements.

Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In our lifetime, by Elinor Sisulu Published by Abacus, reviewed by Trevor Grundy.

Week of 22 February 2004

Associations and Guilds
Catholic Clerical Union. Founded in 1886 as the Clerical Union for the Maintenance and Defence of Catholic Principles. Membership in regional branches and at-large open to clergy and seminarians.

England
Blackpool, St John the Evangelist (Blackburn)
Brisland, Parish Church of St Protus and St Hyacinth (Truro)
Castle Vale, St Cuthbert (Birmingham)
Chorley, St George (Blackburn)
Douglas-in-Parbold, Christ Church (Blackburn)
Edgbaston, Edgbaston Old Church (Birmingham)
Edgbaston, St Germain (Birmingham) - warning: plays music at you
Falmouth, King Charles the Martyr (Truro)
Gilling East, Holy Cross (York)
Hall Green, St Peter (Birmingham)
Handsworth, St Andrew (Birmingham)
Port Isaac, Collegiate Church of St Endellion (Truro)
Rievaulx, St Mary (York)
St Columb, Parish of St Enoder (Truro)
Sproxton, St Chad (York)
Stonegrave, Stonegrave Minster (York)

Resources
Update on Commskit: The Beds and Herts Churches Media Trust. We confirmed that the price for their web hosting service is only UK£45 per annum. This includes 100 Mb of disk space and 1000 free pop mail boxes, as well as a second level domain for your church, for example, yourchurch.org.uk. For those of you who need mail capabilities and are tired of the free-hosting sites' ad clutter, Commskit is worth considering. (Cross-listed under Web site creation and hosting.)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Episcopal Church of Scotland
Four candidates short-listed for the next Bishop of Argyll and The Isles.

Exchanges
USA, Gulf Coast Alabama -> Ireland, Scotland, England.
Exchange for three or four weeks, summer of 2004. Sunday service only for great congregation. Car and home available. Close to beaches, Gulf of Mexico. Four hours to New Orleans, Atlanta. Married with wife, looking for vacation. Have enjoyed working where we stay. Contact stmarys@alaweb.com

USA, New York-> United Kingdom, Europe
Spring, summer, or fall 2004, three to five weeks. We have four bedrooms (sleep up to 8 comfortably) two and one-half baths, two-car garage, in-ground swimming pool, about a two-hour drive (or train ride) from Manhattan and one mile to a lovely beach on Long Island Sound. Willing to take services. For part of the time we have arranged for Sundays to covered by substitute priests. In other words, if the exchange is for five weeks, I'd arrange for my replacement to have two Sundays off during that period. I'd much prefer a parish and responsibilities like my own: a quite small parish, part-time work. I'm semi-retired; 3 days a week on average, but I would be willing to explore any combinations / permutations. Email with questions or for more information: the Reverend Nils Blatz, enils@att.net.

Lent
Resources for Lent: Our collection of links. Are you aware of something we've missed that should be on this page? Tell us.
New: Shrove Tuesday Traditions and Rubrics: The Revd Ray Beaver's collection of lighthearted rubrics, notes. and links to the celebration of Shrove Tuesday.

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

News Centre
Upcoming bishop shortage in Canada. West Tennessee passes unity resolution. Via Media to meet in Atlanta. Flying bishops offer aid to Canadian dissidents. Bishop of Nairobi asked to return the money, refuses. Nigerian bishop speaks out. ABC issues charge to Lambeth Commission. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Dioceses (extraprovincial)
Venezuela — venezuela.anglican.org

Parishes
Georgia: Perry, St Christopher's-at-the-Crossroad (Atlanta)
Massachusetts: Quincy, Christ Church (Massachusetts)
Missouri: Monet, St Stephen (West Missouri)
New Jersey: Dunellen, St Francis (New Jersey)
New York: Salem, St Paul (Albany)

Vacancies Centre
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.

Website creation and hosting
Update on Commskit: The Beds and Herts Churches Media Trust. We confirmed that the price for their web hosting service is only UK£45 per annum. This includes 100 Mb of disk space and 1000 free pop mail boxes, as well as a second level domain for your church, for example, yourchurch.http://anglicansonline.org/special/linktoAO.htmlhttp://anglicansonline.org/special/linktoAO.htmlorg.uk. For those of you who need mail capabilities and are tired of the free-hosting sites' ad clutter, Commskit is worth considering. (Cross-listed under England/Resources.)

World
Sudan: Diocese of Kadugli & the Nuba Mountains

Worth Noting

Anglican rosaries: Robin Cuneo, writing in the Erie Times News (Pennsylvania), comments on the growing popularity of the Anglican rosary.

Most Americans take Bible stories literally: a recent ABC News poll found that six out of ten Americans accept the Bible as literal truth.

Standing Commission on Episcopal Church Communications: The commission was created at General Convention 2003, and, before the committee could be convened, ECUSA launched a radically new website at http://episcopalchurch.org/. The standing commission would like your help in assessing how well this new site meets the needs of the Church. You can help in one of two ways, depending on how much or how little time you are able to spend. See http://scecc.ecusa.anglican.org/assessment/ to learn how you can participate.

Tyrant. Dictator. Heretic. Totalitarian. Revisionist. Maverick. Renegade: The Vancouver Sun profiles the Rt Revd Michael Ingham, Bishop of New Westminster.