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Week of 29 May 2005

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Africa
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa: St. Matthew (Diocese of Egypt)

Associations
International Anglican Women's Network: 'formed in November, 1996 following a consultation convened by the Anglican Consultative Council and funded by the Mothers' Union and the United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Church Women of the Episcopal Church, USA. IAWN reports to the Anglican Consultative Council.

Network for Interfaith Concerns in the Anglican Communion: 'The Lambeth Conference 1998 recognised NIFCON as a way of sharing news, information, ideas and resources among provinces of the Anglican Communion. NIFCON was also charged to monitor Muslim-Christian relations and to report regularly.' Founded in 1994.

Australia
New South Wales: Oak Flats, St Andrew (Sydney)
New South Wales: Penrith, St Stephen (Sydney)
New South Wales: St Ives, Sydney, Christ Church (Sydney)
New South Wales: Sadleir, St Mark (Sydney)
New South Wales: South Coogee, Sydney, St Paul (Sydney)
Victoria: Malvern, St George (Melbourne)

Resources
AngliCORD
Anglicans Co-operating in Overseas Relief and Development. 'a partnership between Anglicans in Australia and Anglicans in the developing world. We seek to respond to Jesus' gospel of love through works of compassion and justice. We provide emergency relief and work in cooperation with local churches to alleviate poverty through sustainable development.

Mothers Union Australia. The Australian branch of the world-wide Mothers' Union which supports the family, women and the fight against poverty.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge - Australia
'raises and provides funds to assist in creating, producing, distributing and disseminating Christian literature in countries where resources and support are scarce.' Headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia.

Synergy
The Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn's ministry for young adults and people in their early 20s.

Biblical Resources
Biblical Studies.org.uk. 'An internet resource for studying the Bible created with college-level students and ministers in mind.'

Canada
Ontario: Toronto, St Peter (Toronto)
Nova Scotia: Hatchet Lake, Parish of St Timothy and St Paul [Hachet Lake; Terence Bay] (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)

Church History
Charles Perry Scott, First Bishop in North China, by the Right Reverend Bishop Montgomery, D.D. (1928). Charles Perry Scott (1847-1927) was one of the first missionaries of the Church of England North China Mission. He was consecrated first Bishop of North China in 1880; he retired and died in 1927 after 53 years of missionary work. The online text of this biography includes four photographs of Scott, mission staff and the Cathedral of Our Saviour, Peking.

Christianity and Slavery; in a Course of Lectures preached at the Cathedral and Parish Church of St. Michael, Barbados, by Edward Eliot, B.D., Archdeacon of Barbados (1833). Eliot delivered these lectures on the duties of the Church of England and its ministers in light of slavery in the West Indies. His lectures insist on the right of priests to visit slaves on plantations, and he protests against the practice of forcing slaves to work on Sunday. Eliot also advocates literacy, religious instruction and the encouragement of marriage among the slave population. Slavery was abolished in Barbados in 1834. Among the noteworthy lectures in this collection are "The Duty of Preaching the Gospel to the Slaves in the West Indies," "The Progress of the Gospel in the West Indies," "Giving unto Servants That Which Is Just and Equal," and "Souls Not Saleable".

Writings by and about Archdeacon William Paley. 'Paley achieves an impressive number of hits in Goggle, but there is considerable inaccuracy about him across the board. He is a lightening rod for ID combatants (pro and con), but his range of interest to the world of ideas, and as a key Anglican thinker, is much greater than his role as the best known philosopher of Design (pre-Darwin), encompassing moral and political thought, biblical criticism, scientific ideas, economics, educational theory, ecclesiology, spirituality, toleration, and wit.'

Story of the Siege Hospital in Peking and Diary of Events from May to August, 1900. By Jessie Ransome, Deaconess, Church of England Mission, Peking (1901). Anglican Deaconess Jessie Ransome (d. 1905 [does anyone know when she was born?]) kept this vivid epistolary journal about her hospital work in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion. 'The crops are ripening, and yet there is no one to be seen in the usually busy fields. War is very sad,' she writes.

England
North Lansing, St James the Less (Chichester)

Resources
Bradford Diocesan Mothers Union

Episcopal Elections
Anglican Church of Canada
Saturday, 28 May, the Venerable John Privett (Archdeacon of the Diocese of Edmonton) was elected Bishop of the Diocese of Kootenay, British Columbia, on the fifth ballot.

Essays
Thomas Bushnell, BSG, considers peacemaking versus partisanship in his latest essay.

Events
USA: North Carolina, 10-11 September, 2005: Sacred Summits Cycling Tour
130-mile cycling tour to raise awareness of conservation and environmental efforts in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Presented by the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and Lake Logan Episcopal Centre.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
This is a holiday weekend; it's Anglican Communion Sunday, and EVERYONE is too fagged to do anything newsworthy. Thanks be to God.

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USA
Massachusetts: Springfield, St Barnabas and All Saints (Western Massachusetts)
North Carolina: Ahoskie, St Thomas (East Carolina)
North Carolina: Brevard, St Philip (Western North Carolina)
North Carolina: Fletcher, Calvary (Western North Carolina)
North Carolina: Lumberton, Trinity (East Carolina)
North Carolina: Murphy, Church of the Messiah (Western North Carolina)
North Carolina: Rutherfordton, St Francis (Western North Carolina)
Pennsylvania: Valley Forge, Washington Memorial Chapel (Pennsylvania)
South Carolina: Aiken, St Augustine of Canterbury (Upper South Carolina)
South Carolina: Aiken, St George (Upper South Carolina)
Virginia: West Point, St John (Virginia)

Education
Voorhees College. Historically African American Episcopalian liberal arts college founded in 1897. Located in Denmark, South Carolina.

Vacancies Centre
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Scotland: Forcabers, Gordon Chapel. House Duty Priest

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Worth Noting
Anarchy, Church and Utopia: Rowan Williams on Church, by Theo Hobson, is reviewed in the Church Times by David Martin. '...it offers a sharply angled cut into the Archbishop's ecclesiology to bring out an instability that is arguably of the essence of Christianity. To locate this instability in one who is 'simply the best' illumines more than its subject.'

Lancelot Andrewes: A Perennial Preacher of the Post-Reformation English Church, by Marianne Dorman, is reviewed in the Church Times by Kenneth Stevenson. 'Each of the 14 chapters uses the description “perennial” to emphasise Dorman’s point that, though Andrewes lived long ago, in a very different world,with a very different social-ecclesiastical setting, and surrounded by a very different theological climate, he none the less speaks across the centuries.'

Tree of Knowledge, Tree of Life, by Richard Chartres, is reviewed in the Church Times by David Winter. 'This collection of sermons by the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, is something of a curate's egg, if one may say that about an episcopal offering. Some of the addresses are brilliant, probing insistently a question that haunts the whole book: what is wisdom, and how does it relate to knowledge?"

Week of 22 May 2005

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Australia
New South Wales: Brighton-le-Sands, St Mark (Sydney)
New South Wales: Dural, Arcadia and Kenthurst, Dural District Anglican Churches (Sydney)
New South Wales: Kellyville, St Stephen (Sydney)
New South Wales: Menai, St Paul (Sydney)
New South Wales: Mortdale, Christ Church (Sydney)
New South Wales: Ryde, St Anne (Sydney)
Victoria: Melbourne, St Theodore (Melbourne)

Resources
GFS Australia: 'An organisation within the Anglican Church which seeks to minister to children, youth and their families.'

Gippsland Youth Ministries: 'A team of people responsible for ministry to youth in the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland. The team includes representatives from all major diocesan Youth Initiatives.'

Kidsplus Brisbane: Brisbane diocesan branch of GFS Australia.

Perth GFS: Perth diocesan branch of GFS Australia.

Canada
Alberta: Fort McMurray, All Saints (Athabasca)

Resources
Anglican Worship Resources: 'Founded as the [Canadian] Anglican Church Bible and Prayer Book Society, AWR has helped congregations, missions, camps, Church Schools and other church groups across Canada obtain hymn books, prayer books, bibles, and many other resources which enhance worship.'

Church History
Albert Maclaren: Pioneer Missionary in New Guinea, by Frances Synge (1908). Albert Maclaren (1853-1891) was the first Anglican missionary to work in New Guinea. He died after just six fruitful months of evangelism along distinct High Church lines, leaving the beginnings of a strong local church. This biography includes extensive extracts from his diary and a frontispiece portrait.

Story of a Melanesian Deacon, by Clement Marau (1906). Marau (c. 1859-1923) was ordained to the diaconate by missionary bishop John Selwyn in 1890, and to the priesthood in 1903. This autobiographical account covers his own work as a missionary deacon in the Solomon Islands. A later chronicler of Melanesian Anglican history referred to him as 'the most respected' and 'the ablest of all the native clergy, a beautiful musician, playing both upon the organ and the violin.' A frontispiece photograph of Deacon Marau is included along with the text.

England
Barton-le-Clay, St Nicholas (St Albans)
Bowburn, Parish of Cassop cum Quarrington, Christ the King (Durham)
Eaton Bray with Edlesborough, St Mary the Virgin (St Albans)
Egglescliffe, St John the Baptist (Durham)
Jarrow Grange, Christ Church (Durham)
Sedgefield, St Edmund (Durham)
Selly Oak, St Mary (Birmingham)
Stevenage, St Peter (St Albans)
Sunderland, St Chad (Durham)
Tanfield, St Margaret of Antioch (Durham)
Toddington, St George of England (St Albans)
Winlaton, St Paul (Durham)

Miscellaneous Resources
Church Missionary Society: Mid-Africa Ministry: MAM was founded in 1921 and has worked in partnership with the Anglican Church in Burundi, Rwanda, south-west Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo for over 80 years. It united with the CMS in February 2002.

GFS Platform UK: UK Branch of the Girls' Friendly Society. 'GFS Platform operates a variety of projects around the UK and also maintains a worldwide presence in 23 countries.' The group 'works holistically with over 3,500 girls and young women in a range of settings providing support, care and education.'

Episcopal Elections or Announcements

Anglican Church of Australia
The Right Reverend Jeffrey William Driver, current Bishop of Gippsland in Victoria, was yesterday elected the new Archbishop of Adelaide. (For more information see the News Centre.)

Events
England: 12 July: The Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing
The Award, which is sponsored by the Lambeth Fund in partnership with SPCK, was inaugurated by Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams to encourage the most promising theological writing of the current age, and to identify it for a wide audience. The biennial prize commemorates Dr Ramsey, who was Archbishop of Canterbury 1961-1974, and his commitment to increasing the breadth of theological understanding of people in general. This year's winner (the first) will be announced on 12 July.

Ireland
Resources
The Girl's Friendly Society, Ireland: 'The GFS is motivated by Christian and biblical principles of faith and service and works within individual parishes of the Church of Ireland. It encourages all its members to participate in the life and work of their branch, church, parish and local community.'

Mothers' Union in the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough: Local branch of this important Anglican women's organisation.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
New archbishop in Adelaide. US delegation to ACC meeting named. Reaction to ARCIC document on Mary. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
California: Pomona, St Paul (Los Angeles)
Florida: Williston, St Barnabas (Florida)
Georgia: Snellville, International Church (Atlanta)
Georgia: Snellville, St Matthew (Atlanta)
Georgia: Warner Robins, All Saints (Atlanta)
Nevada: Ely, St Bartholomew (Nevada)
Nevada: Henderson, Epiphany (Nevada)
Nevada: Tonopah, St Mark (Nevada)
Pennsylvania: Beaver, Trinity (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Bradford, Ascension (Northwestern Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Crafton, Nativity (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Carnegie, Atonement (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Greensburg, Christ Church (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Newcastle, Trinity (Northwestern Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh, St Paul (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh (Brackenridge), St Barnabas (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh (Warrendale), St Christopher (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Uniontown, St Peter (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Verona, All Saints (Pittsburgh)
Texas: Lindale, St Luke (Northeast Texas)
Texas: Rockport, St Peter (West Texas)
Washington: Vancouver, St Luke (Olympia)
West Virginia: Martinsburg, Trinity (West Virginia)

Resources
Alleluia Fund for Mission: The AFM is an annual giving opportunity in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta to create a fund for the support of new parishes in the diocese.

Church Toolbox: 'A free resource for the wider church sponsored by the Diocese of Virginia Commission on Congregational Development.'

The Consultation: Umbrella network for Integrity, the Episcopal Urban Caucus, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, the Episcopal Women's Caucus, the Union of Black Episcopalians, the Episcopal Ecological Network, the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, the Episcopal Network for Economic Justice, Episcopal Asiamerica Ministry Advocates, Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission and the Province 8 Native American Ministries Network.

Episcopal Church Building Fund: Founded in 1880 to 'aid in the building, improvement, and repair of churches, rectories, parochial, and diocesan buildings by providing assistance in planning and loans, and to aid in the development of congregations through providing training, education, and resources.' [Shocking, disturbing MIDI attack]

Episcopal Peace Fellowship: Headquartered in Chicago, this organisation's mission statement includes the following: 'In loyalty to the person, teaching and Lordship of Jesus Christ, my conscience commits me to His way of redemptive love: to pray, study, and work for peace, and to renounce, so far as possible, participation in war, militarism, and all other forms of violence.'

Global Episcopal Mission Network: 'An association of dioceses of the Episcopal Church, together with partner dioceses throughout the Anglican Communion, committed to the engagement of diocesan bishops, leadership and people in Global Mission.'

St Benedict's Toolbox Annex: A wonderful site dedicated to showing readers 'how ideas from the sixth century can guide us to a Christ-centered life today.' It is a companion website for the new book St. Benedict's Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday Benedictine Living, by Jane Tomaine (Morehouse, 2005).

Retirement communities
Deerfield. Retirement centre affiliated with the Diocese of Western North Carolina. Located in Asheville, North Carolina.

Goodwin House Foundation. This foundation supports residential retirement communities in northern Virginia, and is affiliated with the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

Vacancies Centre
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World

Brazil
Resources
Missionary District of Amazonia

Centro de Estudos Anglicanos. Centre for Anglican Studies, founded in 1998. Site in English and Portuguese. The Portuguese-language section includes numerous articles on Anglican missions, history, theology, ethics and spirituality.

Worth Noting
The Devoted Life:An Invitation to the Puritan Classics, edited by Kelly M. Kapic and Randall C. Gleason, and Day by Day with the English Puritans:Selected Readings for Daily Reflection, edited by Randall J. Pederson, are reviewed jointly in the Church Times by Alison Shell. 'Part of the Puritan mission was to write clearly and compellingly about the great work of salvation. These two books both provide tasters of Puritan writing for the non-specialist, though they have very different briefs.
    Pederson’s volume gives a year’s worth of bedside reading, gleaned from no fewer than 74 Puritan authors. The Devoted Life, on the other hand, is a volume of essays introducing significant Puritan texts. Inevitably, John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress figures here; more controversially, so does John Milton’s Paradise Lost.'

Frederic William Dwelly, 1881-1957, First Dean of Liverpool, by Peter Kennerley, is reviewed in The Church Times by Michael Perham. 'Dwelly was an extraordinary man. There are mysteries in his life, not least that of his marriage to Mary Dawsin, of whom almost nothing is known.' [An extremely interesting review of a book that sounds very much worth our time.]

New Light on a Forgotten Visionary: The Works of Thomas Traherne (Vol.1), edited by Jan Ross is the Lead Book Review in this week's Tablet. 'There seems always to have been something elusive and strange about the life and writings of Thomas Traherne.'