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Week of 28 March 2004

Lenten and Holy Week resources
Our collection of links.

Associations, groups, guilds
Anglican Mainstream: 'A community within the Anglican Communion teaching and preserving the Scriptural truths on which the Anglican Church was founded'. The website includes 'in-depth articles and Scriptural teaching as well as news, comment and informed opinion on the current events shaping the Anglican Communion'.

Australia
Schools
Calrossy: In Tamroth, New South Wales, this Anglican girls school in the Diocese of Armidale has both day and boarding students.
Danebank: In Hurstville, south Sydney, this Anglican girls school in the Diocese of Sydney caters to day students from pre-school to Year 12.

Canada
Prince Edward Island: St Mary and St John (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)

Christian Education
Anglican Center for Theology and Spirituality: 'A new web site providing resources for adult education and formation in the context of the Episcopal Church. We are committed to an authentic via media approach in the Broad Church tradition. The site serves both diocesan activities and provides resources and links with a wide appeal to other Episcopalian and to seekers and visitors'.

Essays
Bishop Pierre Whalon reflects on things done and not done during the recent House of Bishops meeting in Texas in his latest essay The Hard Work of Reconciliation.

Exchanges
England -> US (July 2004 and July 2005)
English clergy family from Midlands (UK), near Stratford, Warwick and Cotswolds, looking to exchange residence and vehicle
for same in US for period up to 7 weeks. Available early July 2004 and for the same period 2005. (We are splitting some sabbatical time.) Could supply Sunday service cover if needed. For information contact: susanmobberley@onetel.com.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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Music
The Irish Guild of Organists and Choristers: 'An independent learned society based in Ireland, founded to promote the highest standards in liturgical music'.

News Centre
Griswold writes to Eames. Former ABC speaks out on Islam. Via Media meets in Atlanta. Uganda bishop speaks out on vigilantes. Stalemate in Bangor bishop election. ECUSA House of Bishops meeting ends; many analyses and retorts. Mathematician gives 2:1 odds God exists. Syria and Lebanon Synods issue joint statement. Canada archbishop speaks out on anti-Semitism. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Illinois: Wilmette, St Augustine (Chicago)

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

Anglicanism and The Western Christian Tradition: Continuity, change and the search for communion, by Stephen Platten (editor).
Reviewed by Colin Podmore in the Church Times.

Anglicans and Orthodox: Unity and subversion 1559-1725, by Judith Pinnington. A review in the Church Times by Arnold Hunt.

Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three women and their Books of Hours, by Kathryn A. Smith. Reviewed by Gillian Evans in the Church Times.

Gay and Lesbian Theologies: Repetitions with critical difference, written by Elizabeth Stuart and reviewed by Dr Linda Woodhead in the Church Times.

My Struggle For Freedom: Memoirs, by Hans Küng. Reviewed by John Habgood in the -- wait for it -- Church Times.

So You Think You're Human? A Brief History of Humankind, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, reviewed by Bishop Richard Holloway in The Scotsman.

Why Churches Should Have Websites: AKM Adam makes the case for a URL.

Week of 21 March 2004

• Lenten resources •

New: A vegetarian diet for Lent—promoting vegetarianism throughout Christendom. Sponsored by the Christian Vegetarian Association.

Australia
Parishes
New South Wales: Sydney (Church Hill), St Philip (Sydney)
New South Wales: Sydney (Roseville), St Andrew (Sydney)
South Australia: Adelaide, Holy Trinity (Adelaide)

Basics
'Rev. Rebecca's Explanation & Guide to All Things Anglican'. An eclectic set of chapters, including 'Why Liturgy', 'The use of Bells', 'The Passing of the Peace', 'Anglicans & Episcopalians: an explanation', and more.

Canada
Ontario: Ottawa, St Barnabas (Ottawa)

England
Parishes
Birchencliffe, Huddersfield, St Philip the Apostle (Wakefield)
Codsall, St Nicholas (Lichfield)
Codsall Wood, St Peter (Lichfield)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
Diocese of Toronto: Synod members are called to assemble at the cathedral on June 12, 2004 for the election of a Diocesan Bishop. Information about nomination procedures will be available at the Diocese of Toronto’s Web site by March 31.

Essays
Bishop Pierre Whalon checks in from the House of Bishops (ECUSA) meeting being held in Texas this week: Postcard from Camp Allen.

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

News Centre
British uneasy about organ[ist] transplants. Annual retreat of ECUSA bishops in Texas. Bishop of El Camino Real announces retirement. New director of communications for Church of England. More on the recent Ohio confirmations. Diocese of Virginia names reconciliation panel. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Social Justice, Environment
All Creation Liberation: reflections on animals' rights by a Franciscan Episcopal priest.

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USA
Parishes
Georgia: West Point, St John (Atlanta)
Texas: Dallas, Canterbury Episcopal Ministry (Dallas)

Education
University of Michigan: Canterbury House, the Episcopal Student Center in Ann Arbor, 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.

Worth Noting
Desmond Tutu warns against fundamentalism: The Associated Press reports that Desmond Tutu, retired Archbishop of Cape Town, warned that religious fundamentalism is on the rise worldwide. The East African Standard (Nairobi), reporting the same event, published this report.

When churches disappear: Gerald Gamm, writing in the Boston Globe, reflects on the effect of the hierarchical top-down structure of the Roman Catholic church on the survival of parishes and church buildings in Boston.