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Week of 4 September 2005

Africa
Building a Brighter Africa. 'Professeurs pour la liberté (PPL) taps the energy of youth as well as course material and recycled technology from developed nations to deliver tuition-free online education to the African continent.' 'Degree-granting institutions in the G8, European and Scandinavian nations donate as little as a “Single Accredited Subject” each, with a commitment to maintaining high standards and quality. People of the G8 countries, Europe and Scandinavia donate re-usable textbooks. This will enrich resource-thin schools, colleges and universities in Africa. People of the G8 countries, Europe and Scandinavia donate re-usable computers. This will help bridge the “unbridgeable” Digital Divide in Africa. The government of Canada acting as a catalyzing agent, permits international recipients of CCBC Partial Scholarships to study at CCBC. This enables the creation of a pool of intellectual capital committed to reversing the “brain-drain” in Africa. CCBC Partial Scholarship recipients upon graduation will volunteer in Africa with PPL for 3 years, thereby facilitating grassroots empowerment city-by-city, village-by-village.' (Cross-listed in Canada Resources.)

Australia
Victoria: South Yarra, Christ Church (Melbourne)

Books, Magazines and Authors
A 'premiere issue of the Resonate Journal, a journal of theology, spirituality, and the Gospel and the Canadian culture. In addition to some great articles, we have silliness, some schwag, and even a really long poll.' Good looking new online journal.

Canada
Ontario: Scarborough, St Paul, L'Amoreaux (Toronto)
Québec: Pointe-Claire, St John the Baptist (Montreal)

Resources
Building a Brighter Africa. 'Professeurs pour la liberté (PPL) taps the energy of youth as well as course material and recycled technology from developed nations to deliver tuition-free online education to the African continent.' 'Degree-granting institutions in the G8, European and Scandinavian nations donate as little as a “Single Accredited Subject” each, with a commitment to maintaining high standards and quality. People of the G8 countries, Europe and Scandinavia donate re-usable textbooks. This will enrich resource-thin schools, colleges and universities in Africa. People of the G8 countries, Europe and Scandinavia donate re-usable computers. This will help bridge the “unbridgeable” Digital Divide in Africa. The government of Canada acting as a catalyzing agent, permits international recipients of CCBC Partial Scholarships to study at CCBC. This enables the creation of a pool of intellectual capital committed to reversing the “brain-drain” in Africa. CCBC Partial Scholarship recipients upon graduation will volunteer in Africa with PPL for 3 years, thereby facilitating grassroots empowerment city-by-city, village-by-village.' (Cross-listed in African education.)

Church History
From Cape Horn to Panama: A Narrative of Missionary Enterprise among the Neglected Races of South America, by the South American Missionary Society, by Robert Young (1905).
This book provides a chronicle of the first fifty years of Anglican missionary work throughout South America, focusing on missionaries to indigenous peoples in Brazil, Paraguay, Chile and Argentina.

The City of the Mormons, by Henry Caswall (1842). Henry Caswall (1810-1870) was among the earliest Anglican observers of the growth of Mormonism in 19th-century America. In this volume, based on a visit to Nauvoo, Illinois, Caswall combines a critical first-hand account of the nascent religion with an impassioned plea for his readers to assist missionary Bishop Jackson Kemper, in whose vast frontier diocese much of the early growth of Mormonism took place.

Parochial Sermons, from The Posthumous Works of the Late Right Reverend John Henry Hobart, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York (1832). John Henry Hobart (1775-1830) was the third Bishop of New York; he is commemorated by the Episcopal Church on September 12. This substantial collection of forty parochial sermons constitutes the third volume of his posthumous Works.

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Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Archbishop calls President 'inhuman'. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
California: Alameda, Christ Church (California)
California: Albany, St Alban (California)
California: Brentwood, St Alban (California)
California: Concord, St Michael and All Angels (California)
California: Carmel, St Dunstan (El Camino Real)
California: Mill Valley, Our Saviour (California)
California: Pleasant Hill, Resurrection (California)
California: Salinas, St George (El Camino Real)
California: Sausalito, Christ Church (California)
Connecticut: Wethersfield, Trinity (Connecticut)
Connecticut: Windsor, Grace Church (Connecticut)
Connecticut: Woodbury, St Paul (Connecticut)
Nebraska: Norfolk, Trinity Church (Nebraska)
Missouri: Cassville, St Thomas a Becket (West Missouri)
Missouri: Kansas City, St Peter (West Missouri)
Missouri: Kimberling City, St Mark (West Missouri)
Missouri: Raytown, St Matthew (West Missouri)
Missouri: Manchester, St Luke (Missouri)
Oregon: Eugene, Episcopal campus ministry at the University of Oregon (Oregon)
Texas: Austin, St Alban (Texas)
Texas: Houston, St Cuthbert (Texas)
Texas: Houston, St Francis (Texas)
Texas: Houston, St James (Texas)

Independent organisations
Cursillo of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.

Episcopal Church Women, Diocese of Texas. Diocesan branch of this national women's organisation.

Order of St Luke, San Diego Region. Regional branch of this devotional organisation promoting prayer for healing.

Miscellaneous resources
Episcopal Community Services, California. 'a dynamic, multi-cultural organization serving people in poverty. ECS maintains forty programs addressing homelessness, unemployment, addiction, mental illness, domestic violence, and children's care and education in San Diego and Riverside Counties.' Affiliated with the Diocese of San Diego.

Planned Giving Services of the Episcopal Church Foundation. Provides information about planned giving, living wills, donations to Episcopal Church-related organisations and other information on financial matters.

St Luke's Health System. Includes nine hospitals and many physician practices in the Kansas City metropolitan area and surrounding region. SLHS provides a wide range of primary, acute, tertiary, and chronic care services. Affiliated with the Diocese of West Missouri.

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.

England: North Shropshire, United Benefice (Shrewsbury). Priest-in-charge. For more information see our Vacancies Centre.

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

Worth Noting
A Companion to the New Testament, by A. E. Harvey, is reviewed in the Church Times by Robin Griffith-Jones. 'This is a revised edition of Dr Harvey's classic Companion of 1970, based on the NRSV instead of the NEB. There are short introductions: to the New Testament as a whole, the Gospels, the letters, and Revelation.'

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, by Gérard Prunier, is reviewed in the Tablet by James Roberts. 'One of the little-noticed effects of the Asian tsunami of last December was that it ended the Darfur famine. A humanitarian crisis that had dominated print and broadcast media for most of that year suddenly evaporated from the face of the earth, at least the part of the earth that is on camera. We are talking media reality here, of course, not reality per se. But as Gérard Prunier observes towards the end of this excellent and authoritative analysis of the continuing Darfur catastrophe, we live in a time when things are not seen as they are, but "in their capacity to create brand images, to warrant a 'big story', to mobilise TV time high in rhetoric". The media can only handle one emotion-laden story at a time, Prunier points out, and the tsunami was "much more politically correct" than the suffering of the people of Darfur. In other words, the tsunami tragedy was heavy on emotion and light on actual politics.

Not Religious, by Rowan Williams, in the Church Times. 'This is an edited extract from Christian Imagination in Poetry and Polity: Some Anglican voices from Temple to Herbert by Rowan Williams (Fairacres Press, £3.50; 0-7283-0162-8).'

Preaching the Bad News: Is the Therapeutic Gospel turning Christ's activists into couch potatoes? Kristina Robb-Dover, writing for the Society of Mutual Autopsy, asks hard questions about ordination processes in the Episcopal Church USA. SOMA, a 'review of religion and culture,' is edited by Episcopalian John D. Spalding.

Where is God? Earthquake, Terrorism, Barbarity, and Hope, By Jon Sobrino, is reviewed in the Church Times by Peter Price. Sobrino begins as does Prunier, highlighting how dates and happenings remain in our memories depending on their coverage; however, Sobrino's 'analysis of the earthquakes and other natural tragedies from a Christian perspective make thoughtful and helpful reading, requiring the reader to ask continually, "Where is God?" and "Who do we understand God to be in this situation?" His conclusions are both orthodox and biblical, while being profoundly thought-provoking. He calls for an honesty towards reality; and holds that "the need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth and theology"'.

 


Week of 28 August 2005

Africa
South Africa: Bryanston, St Michael (Johannesburg)
South Africa: Sophiatown, Christ the King (Johannesburg)

Australia
New South Wales: Tahmoor (in Wollondilly Anglican College), Wollondilly Anglican Community Church (Sydney)
Victoria: Melbourne, St Thomas, Upper Fern Tree Gully (Melbourne)

Biblical Resources
www.dailylectionary.org: 'When you provide an email address the site sends out the daily lectionary starting the very next day'.

Canada
Ontario: North Bay, St John the Divine (Algoma)
Ontario: Rexdale, Toronto, St Paul the Apostle (Toronto)
Ontario: Toronto, St Martin in the Fields (Toronto)
Ontario: West Hill, St Margaret's Tamil Anglican Church (Toronto) [Tamil-language services]

Miscellaneous resources
British Columbia: Camp Columbia. Summer camp of the Diocese of British Columbia.
Quebec: Quebec Lodge. Summer camp of the Diocese of Quebec.
Saskatchewan: Camp Okema. Summer camp of the Diocese of Saskatchewan, administered by the Okema Society for Christian Development.

Church History
Canadian Society of Church History: 'A non-denominational association dedicated to promoting and encouraging research in the history of Christianity, particularly the history of Christianity in Canada. Over the years, the Society's annual meetings have provided a forum for Canada's leading historians of Christianity. In addition, the Society has encouraged younger historians, especially graduate students, to present papers that contribute to the historical understanding of Christianity.' Founded in 1960; bilingual site.

The Life and Correspondence of Samuel Johnson, D.D. Missionary of the Church of England in Connecticut and First President of King's College, New York, by E. Edwards Beardlsey (1874). Samuel Johnson (1696-1772) was a leader in the early eighteenth-century movement of American converts from Calvinism to Anglicanism. He served as the founding president of King's College, later Columbia University in the City of New York.

The Story of Commander Allen Gardiner, R.N., with Sketches of Missionary Work in South America, by John W. Marsh and W.H. Stirling (1883). Allen Gardiner (1794-1851) was the lay Anglican founder of the South American Missionary Society. This volume, which includes a frontispiece portrait, gives detailed extracts from his journals of missionary travels in Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands.

The Works of Nicholas Ridley, edited by Henry Christmas (1841). This edition includes Ridley's 'Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable State of the Church in England,' letters, 'Treatise on the Worship of Images' and numerous other reformation documents in Adobe Acrobat format. In 1555 Nicholas Ridley was burned at the stake with Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester.

Education and Ministries
University of St Andrews, Scotland - School of Divinity. Now offering a postgraduate M.Litt theology degree by online distance learning. (Cross-listed under Theological Resources and Scotland Resources.)

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

Liturgical Resources
A Liturgy of Reconciliation in Memoriam Brother Roger of Taizé. This brief liturgy incorporates the Coventry Litany of Reconciliation in a service of ecumenical reconciliation.

Musical Resources
In Quires and Places Where They Sing, by Adrian Leak. A feature article in the Church Times, celebrating 'the quincentenary of the birth of Thomas Tallis, one of the great composers of English church music. As part of that celebration, a BBC Proms concert on Thursday 1 September at 10 p.m. on Radio 3 will feature some of his best-known works.'

Of Choristers Ancient and Modern: A History of Cathedral Choir Schools. This site provides information on the history and current organisation of cathedral choirs throughout England and Scotland. It includes appendices on boy bishops, girls' choirs, and Maria Hackett, a 19th-century reformer who dedicated her life to improving the lot of boy choristers.

Ten Hymns, by Don Kerr. These hymns were written for the boys of the Montreal Boys Choir School at CAMMAC, Québec, between 1989 and 1991. Most are set to tunes found in The Hymnal 1982 [Episcopal Church USA]. New tunes for each hymn are being composed by the Reverend Stephen A. Crisp. The copyrighted hymn texts are in PDF format.

News Centre
Ecumenical funeral in Taizé. Zimbabwe bishop trial collapses. Lake Malawi consecration postponed. Lawsuit in Connecticut. Call for native bishop in Canada. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Anglican Parishes Association: 'founded in 1981 [...] to publish prayer books, missals, devotional books, tracts, calendars, and other materials to serve the religious, educational, and liturgical needs of the Anglican Catholic Church, its members, and other interested persons.' This official publisher for the Anglican Catholic Church has a number of traditional Anglo-Catholic books available in reprint.

Religious Orders
St Saviour's Priory, Society of St Margaret: 'St Saviour's Priory is an Anglican community of lay and ordained women exploring contemporary ways of living the religious life.' The Society of St Margaret was founded in 1855 by John Mason Neale.

Scotland
Changing Attitude Scotland: 'a network of people, gay and straight, lay and ordained, working for the full affirmation of lesbian and gay Christians within the Scottish Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion.'

University of St Andrews, Scotland - School of Divinity. Now offering postgraduate M.Litt theology degree by on-line distance learning. (Cross-listed under Theological resources and Christian Education and Ministries.)

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Theological Resources
University of St Andrews, Scotland - School of Divinity. Now offering postgraduate M.Litt theology degree by on-line distance learning. (Cross-listed under Scotland resources and under Christian Education and Ministries.)

USA
Florida: Cantonment, St Monica (Central Gulf Coast)
Florida: Jacksonville, All Souls (Florida)
Florida: Jacksonville, Epiphany (Florida)
Florida: Keystone Heights, St Anne (Florida)
Florida: Miami, Incarnation (Southeast Florida)
Florida: Sarasota, St Margaret of Scotland (Southwest Florida)
Florida: Winter Garden, Church of the Messiah (Central Florida)
New York: Saranac Lake, St Luke the Beloved Physician (Albany)
Pennsylvania: Aston, Calvary, Rockdale (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Exton, St Paul, West Whiteland (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Norristown, St John (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Calvary (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, St Luke and the Epiphany (Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania: Villanova, Christ Church Ithan (Pennsylvania)
Texas: Austin, St John (Texas)
Texas: Austin, St Michael (Texas)
Texas: Austin, St Philip the Joy-Giver (Texas)
Texas: Bastrop, Calvary (Texas)
Texas: Houston, St Alban (Texas) [bilingual site]
Texas: Houston, St Christopher (Texas)
Texas: Houston, St George and St Patrick (Texas)
Texas: Houston, San Mateo (Texas) [bilingual site]
Texas: LaMarque, St Michael (Texas)
Texas: McKinney, St Andrew (Dallas)
Texas: Pasadena, St Peter (Texas)

Schools and education
Colorado: Boulder. Episcopal Student Fellowship, University of Colorado.
Louisiana: Cade. Episcopal School of Acadiana. Independent, coeducational, college preparatory school for students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Founded in 1979.
Washington: Lakewood. St Mary's Episcopal School. Students from age 2 through grade 5. Affiliated with the Diocese of Olympia.
Washington: Medina. St Thomas School. Preschool through grade six. Affiliated with the Diocese of Olympia.
Washington: Tacoma. Annie Wright School. Pre-kindergarten through grade 12; co-ed day school through grade 8, and an all-girls' boarding-day school for grades 9-12. Affiliated with the Diocese of Olympia.
Washington: Tacoma. Charles Wright Academy. Pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Coeducational. Affiliated with the Diocese of Olympia.

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.

Canada: Toronto, Church of the Ascension. Youth worker. For more details see our Vacancies Centre.

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

World
Malaysia: Kuching, St Faith (Kuching)
Malaysia: Selangor, Petaling Jaya, Faith Christian Centre (Sabah) [Chinese and English]
Singapore: Singapore, St John's Chapel (Singapore)

Worth Noting
Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love, by Rowan Williams, is reviewed in the Church Times by John Habgood. 'Good works of art carry an overload of meaning, and should appeal to levels of the intellect which are not immediately obvious. Echoing like a refrain throughout this book are some words of Jacques Maritain: "Things are not only what they are . . . they give more than they have." The same might be said of the book itself.' Bishop Pierre Whalon also wrote a in-depth review for AO in his latest column.

In Quires and Places Where They Sing, by Adrian Leak. A feature article in the Church Times, celebrating 'the quincentenary of the birth of Thomas Tallis, one of the great composers of English church music. As part of that celebration, a BBC Proms concert on Thursday 1 September at 10 p.m. on Radio 3 will feature some of his best-known works.'

Meanings of Life, by Alex Wright, is reviewed this week in the Church Times by Simon Jones. 'This is, in some ways, an unconventional sequel to Alex Wright's Why Bother with Theology? The publication of that book, in which theology was told to "get a life", contributed, the author says, to the ending of his job in religious publishing, and to a self-questioning that led to this book.'

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