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Week of 11 September 2005

Australia
New South Wales: Ballina, Parish of Ballina (Grafton)
South Australia: Glenelg, St Peter's Anglican Parish of Glenelg (Adelaide)

Canada
Ontario: Mississauga, St Paul, Erindale (Toronto)
Ontario: Scarborough, St Jude, Wexford (Toronto)

Church History
A Self-Indulgent History of St Mary's, Castleton, New York, by Richard Major. This is far and away one of the best online parish histories available. It includes sections entitled 'Primal Scenes', 'Heaven's Gate' and 'Ecce Ancilla Domini'. St Mary's, Castleton was founded on Staten Island, New York in 1848.

The Church in Corea, by Mark Napier Trollope (1915). The third Bishop of Korea gives a brief history of the Church of England's mission to that country, beginning in 1889. Included are a batch of twelve interesting photographs.

Forward in Western China, by Deaconess Emily Lily Stewart (1934). This book provides a look at the beginnings and challenges of Anglican missionary life in Sichuan province, which borders Tibet.

Theodora Phranza, or, The Fall of Constantinople, by John Mason Neale (1857). Church historian and hymnographer J.M. Neale sets this romantic novel in 1452-53 during the siege and fall of Constantinople.

England
Sharow, St John (Ripon & Leeds)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
Diocese of Tennessee Bishop Search website.
Includes information on the diocesan profile, educational downloads and the work of the diocesan nomination committee.

Events
USA: Wheaton, Illinois, 29-30 September, 2005: Faith and Fiction: C. S. Lewis and His Chronicles of Narnia
Academic conference sponsored by the Wheaton College Department of English and the Marion E. Wade Center.

USA: Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, 13-16 January, 2006: Faith in 3D
Sponsored by the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Faith in 3D is a weekend designed for high school students to experience the commonalities and differences of ecumenical community. The conference will take place at Walt Disney World resort, and features scheduled worship, recreation and small group activities.

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Africans set to found rival Anglican church. Australian bishop recommends female successor. ++Nigeria bans ++Brazil. General Synod in Nigeria. Anglican Bishop speaks at RC Mass in Ireland. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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Cathedrals
Wisconsin: Eau Claire, Christ Church Cathedral (Eau Claire)

Parishes
Alaska: Anchorage, All Saints (Alaska)
Alaska: Wasilla, St David (Alaska)
California: Castro Valley, Holy Cross (California)
Mississippi: Holly Springs, Christ Church (Mississippi)
Mississippi: Jackson, St Philip (Mississippi)
New Mexico: Roswell, St Thomas à Becket (Rio Grande)
Oregon: Portland, St Philip the Deacon (Oregon)
Tennessee: Athens, St Paul (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Knoxville, Good Shepherd (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Knoxville, St Luke (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Madison, St Francis (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Nashville, St David (Tennessee)
Virginia: Abingdon, St Thomas (Southwestern Virginia)
Virginia: Amherst, Ascension (Southwestern Virginia)
Virginia: Galax, Good Shepherd (Southwestern Virginia) [joint Episcopal-Lutheran congregation]
Virginia: Spotsylvania, Christ Church (Virginia)
Virginia: Virginia Beach, Holy Apostles (Southern Virginia) [joint Episcopal-Roman Catholic parish]
Washington DC: Foggy Bottom, St Mary (Washington)
Washington DC: Southwest Waterfront, St Augustine (Washington)
Washington DC: Downtown, St Timothy (Washington)

Independent organisations
The Haiti Project of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee. 'an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Church in southern Wisconsin. It is a partnership in mission and community development with the people of St. Marc's Episcopal Church, School and Clinic in Jeannette, Haiti and the people of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee.'

Schools
Arizona: Phoenix, St Paul's Academy. Grades nine through twelve. College preparatory school for boys.
Arkansas: Little Rock, The Cathedral School. Kindergarten through grade five. Coeducational.
Mississippi: Long Beach, Coast Episcopal School. Pre-K through grade eight.
Oklahoma: Edmond, St Mary's Episcopal School. Coeducational; accepts students from age three through middle school.
Oklahoma: Tulsa, The Casady School. Primary through grade 12. Coeducational.
Virginia: Covington, Boy's Home. Founded in 1906 as the 'Industrial School and Farm for Mountain Children and Home for Homeless Boys.' Today Boys' Home provides a residential setting for education for 'young men who either have no suitable home or who have difficulties that might best be solved away from their immediate home.' Affiliated with the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.

Vacancies Centre
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Australia: Sydney, St Andrew. 'Preacher/teacher/evangelist' For more information see our Vacancies Centre.

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Worth Noting
An Anglican Adventure: The History of St George's Anglican Church in Paris, by Matthew Harrison, was reviewed in last week's Church Times by Margaret Duggan.

Creditor Complex, by Rowan Williams. This article on William Tyndale 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].

Forgiveness in Context: Theology and Psychology in Creative Dialogue, by Fraser Watts and Liz Gulliford is reviewed in the Church Times by Jenny Francis. 'Taking forgiveness as a key concept in Christianity, Fraser Watts describes how they have created a thorough, painstaking discussion of forgiveness from psychological and theological stances, and rooted in social and church contexts as well as in Judaistic thinking and practice.'

The Good Life: Ethics and the Pursuit of Happiness, by Herbert McCabe, is reviewed in the Tablet by Alasdair MacIntyre. 'he life of friendship with others, a life of concern for their and our flourishing through growth in the virtues needed for human happiness, becomes through grace a life in which God shares His friendship with us: “As Aquinas puts it, the charity we have been given becomes the form of all our virtues and our whole life becomes a sharing in divinity.”... So this introduction to philosophical ethics points us towards a theological ethics, in which the narrative of our lives is understood in relation to the narrative of God’s self-giving – an ethics about which, happily, we can learn a good deal from McCabe’s other writings.'

Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, by Samuel Wells, and I Am the Lord Your God: Reflections on the Ten Commandments, edited by Carl E. Braaten and Christopher R. Seitz, are reviewed together in the Church Times by David Atkinson. 'Wells’s originality is in linking the narrative of the Church’s life to an understanding of God’s work as a drama in five acts: creation, Israel, Jesus, Church, and eschaton (somewhat differing from a similar proposal by Tom Wright). The important thing is to know which “act” we are in. And the task of the Church, within the drama already given by God, is to “improvise” our part in the story leading to God’s end-time... Braaten and Seitz’s collection of essays by a group of ethicists and biblical scholars argues for the permanent validity of the Ten Commandments in both Church and society', but is uneven, as one would expect from a series of papers prepared for different conferences.


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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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"'.

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