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Week of 13 February 2005

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Lent: Links and Resources
Lent for Dummies. A sermon preached by a student at the Episcopal Church at Princeton, Princeton University Chapel.

Mediations for Lent. 'Members of our Cathedral Congregation [Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, USA] have written short meditations for the seasons of Advent and Lent. The contributors have reflected on God's Word while following the daily lectionary. May you find these meditations a useful and meaningful companion on your journey.'

The Season of Lent. All Lent all the time: readings and collects, Stations of the Cross, Lenten Meditations, with archives of liturgies, devotionals, prayers and on and on. (Cross-listed in Liturgical Resources.)

Africa
Uganda
Diocese of South Rwenzori

Canada
Alberta: Edmonton, St Matthias (Edmonton)
Alberta: Tofield, Holy Trinity (Edmonton)
British Columbia: Victoria (Colwood), Advent (British Columbia)
Nova Scotia: West LaHave, Parishes of Petite Riviere and New Dublin [St Peter; St James, LaHave; St John, West Dublin; St John, LaHave Islands; St Mary, Crousetown; St Michael, Petite Riviere; St Mark, Broad Cove; St Paul, Cherry Hill; St Alban, Vogler's Cove] (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)

Resources
British Columbia: AnglicanYouthBC (British Columbia). Great source of information for youth and teen groups in British Columbia.

Church History
Pioneer Work in [the Diocese of] Algoma, by Eda Green (London: SPG, 1915) traces Anglican life in the Canadian Diocese of Algoma from c. 1832 to 1915.

England
Addlestone, Parish of Addlestone [St Paul; St Augustine] (Guildford)
Birkdale, St James (Liverpool)
Bourne, Parish of the Bourne [St Martin by the Green; St Thomas-on-the Bourne; Brambleton Hall, Farnham] (Guildford)
Cove, Parish of Cove [St John; St Christopher; Southwood] (Guildford)
Hawley, Holy Trinity and All Saints (Guildford)
Lowton, St Luke (Liverpool)
Lowton, St Mary (Liverpool)
Lydd, Parish of Lydd [All Saints; St Peter, Greatstone; The Sanctuary, Dungeness] (Canterbury)

Resources
British Anglican Cursillo Council. '... a movement of the Church providing a method by which Christians are empowered to grow through prayer, study and action and enabled to share God's love with everyone.'

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
New Zealand. A new bishop has been chosen to lead the Maori Tikanga of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia. The 129 delegates to the Electoral College chose a candidate – but the selection process is not finalised until that name has been ratified, and the ratification process is underway. Scoop NZ has more information.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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Liturgical Resources
Anglican Prayer Beads. The beads are hand made and are accompanied by a booklet. Find information here on what makes the beads Anglican, rhythm of the beads and other related topics.

The Season of Lent. All Lent all the time: readings and collects, Stations of the Cross, Lenten Meditations, with archives of liturgies, devotionals, prayers and on and on. (Cross-listed in Lenten Resources.)

News Centre
C of E General Synod. ABC welcomes Charles+Camilla. Lichfield to permit artificial flowers. ECUSA PB comments on Bush budget. Primates' meeting media announcement. Jack Horner ordained in Falkland Islands. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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Scotland
Cupar, St James the Great (St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane)

USA
California: Yucaipa, St Alban (Los Angeles)
Connecticut: East Berlin, St Gabriel (Connecticut)
Connecticut: Plainville, Our Saviour (Connecticut)
Indiana: Marion, Gethsemane (Northern Indiana)
Oregon: Brookings, St Timothy (Oregon)

Schools
Texas: Bryan, St Michael's Academy. An Episcopal day school for children from Nursery School through grade 12.

Vacancies Centre
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England: London, St James, Piccadilly. Priest. For more information see our Vacancies Centre.

Seeking a position? Scan vacancies on diocesan web sites with vacancies listings throughout the communion.

Worth Noting
Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life, by Alister McGrath, is reviewed in the Church Times by Hugh Montefiore. 'Dawkins’s atheism gets its come-uppance in this splendid little book. Professor McGrath has little difficulty in showing that Dawkins’s atheist convictions are merely “tacked on to his evolutionary biology with intellectual Velcro”.'

An Ecstasy of Folly, by Laura Nasrallah, is reviewed by Peter Forster in the Church Times. 'In this scholarly book, which originated in a doctoral thesis, Dr Nasrallah traces the tradition of ecstatic prophecy from its roots in St Paul, in particular, in the New Testament, to third-century debates over the place of Charismatic prophecy in the emergent and increasingly institutionalised Church.'

Holy Fire, by Victoria Clark, is reviewed in The Tablet (not online after this week) by Edward Stourton. In her introduction, Victoria Clark writes: 'My argument is that fourth-century Byzantine Orthodoxy and twenty-first-century American Christian Zionism are two ends of a single long continuum in the eyes of many non-Christians.'

The Thoughtful Guide to Faith, by Tony Windross, is reviewed in the Church Times by Bruce Duncan. 'Windross likens Christianity in modern Britain to the Labour Party during the 1980s and 1990s.'

Week of 6 February 2005

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Lent: links and resources
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Australia
New South Wales: Watsons Bay, Parish of Watsons Bay [St Peter and Wentworth Memorial] (Sydney)

Books, Magazines and Authors
Bishop Street Press. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. '... created by Mike Willmott to publish the 750,000-word Parish Notes bequeathed to him by his witty father, the Rev. Oliver Willmott.'

Canada
Ontario: Belleville, Christ Church (Ontario)
Ontario: Carp, Parish of Huntley [St James the Apostle; St John; Christ Church] (Ottawa)
Ontario: Gloucester, Epiphany (Ottawa)
Ontario: Orleans, St Helen (Ottawa)
Ontario: Ottawa, St Aidan (Ottawa)
Ontario: Trent, Parish on the Trent [Christ Church, Holy Trinity] (Ontario)
Ontario: York, St John (Niagara)
Saskatchewan: Nipawin, St John (Saskatchewan)

Schools
Ontario: Toronto, Bishop Strachan School. 'Canada's oldest day and boarding school for girls. Founded in 1867 by the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto' with the motto 'Girls can do anything'.

Theological Colleges
Saskatchewan: James Settee College for Ministry. 'The James Settee College is independent of the Diocese of Saskatchewan but trains the majority of its indigenous clergy.'

Church History
Claves Regni: The Online Magazine of St Peter's, Nottingham for 1901. 'Early in 1994 Mr Barry Chappell, from Chilwell, brought to the church an old volume he had discovered among his late mother's possessions, a bound-up set of St Peter's Church Magazine for the years 1901 and 1902. Mr Chappell had no idea how his mother had come by the volume. He allowed [the parish] to photocopy the magazine and' to present it online as an historical resource.

Some English Altars, with an Introductory Note by Dr. Percy Dearmer (London: The Warham Guild, Ltd., no date) This undated pamphlet includes a short introductory essay and sixteen photographs of Dearmer's ideal altars in English parish churches, mission halls, a naval vessel and a nursery.

England
Bickershaw, St James and St Elizabeth (Liverpool) Midi attack.
Carshalton, All Saints (Southwark)
Swindon, Parish of Swindon New Town [St Mark, St Savior, St Luke, St Aldhelm] (Bristol)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
ECUSA: The Diocese of Southern Ohio has released the list of three candidates to be its 9th bishop.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Australia's primacy race. Bishop consecrated in Botswana. Bishop elected in Virgin Islands. Virginia legislature debates church ownership. Canadian churches re-explore shared ministry. Montréal to sell Bishopscourt. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
Social Justice
Aberlour Child Care Trust. 'Aberlour works in Scotland with and for children, young people and families who need additional support, to promote their development and well being.' It is the successor organisation to the Aberlour Orphanage, founded in 1875 by Canon Charles Jupp of the Scottish Episcopal Church. It retains a connection to the SEC; several of Aberlour's governors are nominated by the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.'

Good Samaritan Orphanage Charity. 'A U.S.-based organization that works to create awareness of, and provide help to, Africa's 23 million orphans' with historically Anglican connections.

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USA
California: Los Angeles, Trinity Church/Iglesia de la Trinidad (Los Angeles) Site and services in English and Spanish.
California: Thousand Oaks, St Patrick (Los Angeles)
Kentucky: Mount Sterling, Ascension (Lexington)
Michigan: Sparta, Holy Spirit (Western Michigan)
New York: Rockville Centre, Ascension (Long Island)
Oregon: Bend, Trinity (Eastern Oregon)
Oregon: Burns, Sister congregations of St Andrew's Episcopal and Peace Lutheran (Eastern Oregon)
Oregon: McMinnville, St Barnabas (Oregon)
Oregon: Newberg, St Michael (Oregon) Services available in English and Spanish.
Oregon: Sisters, Transfiguration (Oregon)
Texas: Conroe, St James the Apostle (Texas)
Texas: Burnet, Epiphany (Texas)

Resources
Covenant: A Commentary on the Church. 'COVENANT is an alternative and independent journal of opinion unofficially published within the Episcopal Church and grounded editorially in the Baptismal Covenant (BCP pp 304f).

It is an occasional paper written primarily to encourage leadership and collegiality among all four orders of ministry - lay persons, deacons, presbyters, and bishops - by promoting charitable, yet timely and vigorous discourse through articles and letters about church agenda and life, about church councils and moral choice, and about the way the church makes and implements decisions.'

Episcopal Charities of the Diocese of New York. Episcopal Charities 'provides three basic services: Grantmaking, Educational Development, and Fund Development, representing a coordinated approach to support for congregations that wish to operate or sponsor programs serving people in their communities.'

MissionalChurch.net. 'Strategic Development web site for the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.'

Vacancies Centre
List a parish or diocesan opening for one month at AO -- at no charge. What a bargain! The more you use our free service, the more useful it will become for all.

Seeking a position? Scan vacancies on diocesan web sites with vacancies listings throughout the communion.

Worth Noting
Curb the will of the majority: Giles Fraser, writing in the Church Times, argues that the Windsor Report is a dangerous document because it does not safeguard individuals' rights.

The Deans, by Trevor Beeson is reviewed in the Church Times by Bernard Palmer. 'The 22 vignettes are topped and tailed by two general chapters on the past history of cathedrals and their possible future development.'

Few dioceses are uniform in all their beliefs: an editorial in Canada's Anglican Journal.

Studia Liturgica Diversa: Essays in Honor of Paul F. Bradshaw, edited by Maxwell E. Johnson and Edward Phillips is reviewed in the Church Times by Hugh Wybrew whose review also considers West Syrian Liturgical Theology, by Fr Baby Varghese.
    Paul Bradshaw's 'research has led him to emphasise the variety and diversity of early Christian worship, and the difficulty of drawing generalised conclusions about the liturgical practice and theology of the early Church.'
     'Fr Baby Varghese’s book is ... designed to appeal to those engaged in theological education and those involved in their churches’ worship, it is less concerned with the history of liturgy than with the meaning of fully developed liturgical tradition.'