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
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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
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Australia: Sydney,
St Andrew. 'Preacher/teacher/evangelist' 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
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. |
