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Week of 2 October 2005

Australia
South Australia: Kensington, Kensington Norwood Anglican Team Ministry [St Matthew, Kensington; St Bartholomew, Norwood] (Adelaide)

Resources
The Brisbane Taizé Prayer Network is an endeavour to provide information exchange and resources for people and communities interested in attending or hosting prayer services in the style of Taizé.

Canada
Cathedral
Newfoundland and Labrador: Gander, St Martin's Cathedral (Central Newfoundland)

Church History
A Bishop among His Flock, by Ethelbert Talbot (1924). Talbot (1848-1928) was missionary Bishop of Wyoming and Idaho from 1887 to 1897. He was elected Bishop of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1898, and became Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in 1924. Talbot was influential in the beginnings of the modern Olympics, writing the Olympic Creed and speaking at services for athletes during the 1908 London Olympics. In this volume, Talbot reflects on the life and doctrine of the Church.

The Cambridge Mission to Delhi, by Lilian Henderson (1931). Henderson chronicles the first 70 years of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel's medical, educational and missionary work in Delhi, known from 1877 as the Cambridge Mission to Delhi. In addition to her three chapters of history, 17 photographs of mission buildings and life are included.

England
Bilton in Holderness, St Peter (York)
Brookfield, St Margaret of Scotland (York)
Cambridge, St Edward, King and Martyr (Ely)
Drypool, St Columba (York)
Leicester, Parish of the Resurrection (Leicester)
Rothley, St Mary and St John (Leicester)
Sandwich, The Carpenter's Arms (Canterbury)
Sittingbourne, St Mary (Canterbury)
Thurlaston, All Saints (Leicester)
Wanstead, St Mary the Virgin with Christ Church (Chelmsford)
West Hoathly, St Margaret (Chichester)
Westfield, St John the Baptist (Chichester)
Withyham, St Michael and All Angels (Chichester)
York, St Thomas with St Maurice (York)

Europe
France: Fontainebleau, Eglise Anglicane de Fontainebleau (Diocese in Europe)

Events
England: London, 21-22 November 2005. The Alpha Conference. Speakers will be Nicky Gumbel and Sandy Millar. The two-track Alpha Conference is designed to equip people starting out running Alpha to set up successful Alpha courses in their church. It also is for those already running Alpha, who want to improve the quality of their course.

England: London, 16-17 February 2006. The Youth Alpha Conference. The Youth Alpha Conference is designed for teenagers and youth leaders who want to see young people reached with the good news of Jesus Christ. If you want to find out a practical way of sharing the gospel with young people then come along and get equipped to run a Youth Alpha course.

USA: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, 10-12 November: North American Anglicanism: Hope and A Future
This three-day conference organised by the Anglican Communion Network has three broad themes 'Our Hope is Jesus Christ', 'Anglicanism Reforming' and 'The Future is The Mission'. It is co-sponsored by a wide variety of groups from the United States and Canada, both within and outside the Anglican Communion.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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New Zealand
Sydenham/Beckenham, St Saviour (Christchurch)

Resources
St Fillan's Healing Ministry. Based at St Alban's Anglican Church, Balmoral, Auckland, New Zealand, 'offers Christian Healing services, Reconciliation services, relationship blessing, house blessing, deliverance, Celtic Eucharist.'

News Centre
Clarification in Brazil. Tartan stoles in Scotland. New Australian primate speaks. Press briefing in Nigeria. Iraqi Anglicans killed. US Bishops report. Anniversary in Canada. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Official Diocesan News
Calgary: The Sower. A monthly newsletter available as a PDF download.
Saskatchewan: Diocese of Saskatchewan News. Updated at least monthly; includes downloads in PDF, Windows Media Player format, back issues.

Preaching Resources
Sermons of the Rev Canon David Howells of the Anglican Diocese of Niagara. 'If my sermons can start a preacher's brain working on a day when someone is stuck I would be glad to have helped.'

Scotland
Edinburgh (South Queensferry), Priory Church (Edinburgh)

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Vacancies Centre
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England: Bristol, St Mary Redcliffe. Priest-in-charge

United States: Diocese of Massachusetts. The Editor-in-Chief of Anglican and Episcopal History.

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Vestments
Holy Cloaks. 'Specializes in custom embroidered clergy stoles. A percentage of all sales are donated to a local city church and a comfort care facility in memory of my cofounder.'

Worth Noting
Christian Paradox. An extremely interesting article, especially for North American readers, in this month's Harper's Magazine. 'Only 40 percent of Americans can name more than four of the Ten Commandments, and a scant half can cite any of the four authors of the Gospels. Twelve percent believe Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.'

Church of the Annunciation, New Orleans. 'Our church and neighbourhood will have to be rebuilt. Our personal home is a total loss. A number of our parish families are still missing. We are scrambling to assist our flock presently scattered from Texas (some now re-evacuated) to New Jersey. Perhaps some of our people might find it and check in.'

For all Peoples and all Nations: Christian Churches and Human Rights, by John Nurser, is reviewed in the Church Times by John Arnold. 'it is a pleasure to read this admirable account of the part played by the Anglican and Protestant Churches in the founding...of that instrument of peace the United Nations, and in the formulation of its Universal Declaration of Human Rights.'

Opus Dei: Secrets and Power Inside the Catholic Church, by John L. Allen, is reviewed in the Tablet by Christopher Howse. ' John Allen gives a chapter each to what he calls “question marks” about Opus Dei: corporal mortification; attitudes to women, money, politics; “blind obedience”; recruiting; and the two items in his subtitle, secrecy and power in the Church.'

Science and Religion: A Reader, edited by Jeff Astley, David Brown and Ann Loades, The Science of God: An Introduction to Scientific Theology, by Alister E. McGrath, and SCM Study Guide to Science and Religion: Footprints in Space, by Jean Dorricott, are reviewed in the Church Times by Adam Ford. 'We live our lives embedded (rather like war journalists at the front line, but without any choice) in a mysterious reality. We can respond to this reality in many ways: with awe or anger, with gratitude, indifference, or poetry. But two responses stand out: religious faith and the scientific enterprise. The one is searching for meaning, the other attempting to describe and then manipulate the world. They complement each other, overlapping, but asking different sorts of questions. Both are necessary.'

Why Archbishop Akinola is Wrong: Francis Bridger and Graham Kings argue in the Church Times.

Week of 25 September 2005

Australia
Parishes
Western Australia: Old Broome, Annunciation (North West Australia)

Church History
Anglican Church of Australia Archive. 'This archive is part of a strategy developed in the National Church Office to enable a better understanding of Australian Anglicanism. We have initiatiated a number of community Identity seminars on our story [Anglican History], our beliefs [Anglican Theology] and how we relate to others [Anglican Missiology]. These seminars work at the post graduate level and foster their respective disciplines and publish the results of their work. More information can be found at the National Church Office website.' A well organised, attractive site with searchable texts and images. (Cross-listed in Worth Noting.)

The Eucharistic Understanding of John Cosin and His Contribution to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, by the Reverend Ivan D. Aquilina. This thesis from the author's graduate study at the University of Leeds explores the eucharistic doctrine of John Cosin (1594-1672), and his role in the revisions that led to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Ivan Aquilina is curate at All Saints, Margaret Street, London.

A History of the Church of England in India Since the Early Days of the East India Company, by Eyre Chatterton (1924). This book covers the history of the Church of England throughout the Indian subcontinent, including modern-day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma.

The Life and Letters of George Alfred Lefroy, Bishop of Calcutta, by H. H. Montgomery (1920). Lefroy (1854-1919) was head of the Cambridge Mission Brotherhood from 1885-1899; head of the Delhi Mission 1891-1899; Bishop of Lahore from 1899-1912; and Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India from 1913-1919. During his long service to the Church of England in India, he participated in significant debates on the relationship between imperialism and missionary work, between Islam and Christianity, and about education as well as internal church matters.

England
Parishes
Angmering, St Margaret (Chichester)
Ardingly, St Peter (Chichester)
Benfleet, St George (Chelmsford)
Brighton, St George, Kemp Town (Chichester)
Countesthorpe, St Andrew (Leicester)
Crawley, St Mary (Chichester)
Croft, St Michael and All Angels (Leicester)
Cuckfield, Holy Trinity (Chichester)
Durrington, St Symphorian (Chichester)
Halstead, St Andrew with Holy Trinity (Chelmsford)
Hinckley, St Mary (Leicester)
Isleham, St Andrew (Ely)
Lancing, St Michael and All Angels (Chichester)
Sapcote, All Saints (Leicester)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
First Peculiar woman. Disputed consecration moves forward in Malawi. Gene Robinson predicts a split. Plan for 100 new churches in Lagos West. African archbishop cremated. New abbreviated Bible. English Bishops suggest apology for war. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Parishes
Michigan: Birmingham, St James (Michigan)
Michigan: Chelsea, St Barnabas (Michigan)
Michigan: Dearborn, Christ Church (Michigan)
Michigan: Detroit, All Saints (Michigan)
Michigan: Detroit, St Martin (Michigan)
Michigan: Lansing, St Paul (Michigan)
New Hampshire: Salem, St David (New Hampshire)
New Hampshire: Sanbornville, St John the Baptist (New Hampshire)
Tennessee: Brentwood, Good Shepherd (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Cookeville, St Michael (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Cowan, St Agnes (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Smyrna, All Saints (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Thompson Station, Church of the Apostles (Tennessee)
Virginia: Halifax, St John (Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Hampton, St Cyprian (Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Hampton, St Mark (Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Hopewell, St John (Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Norfolk, St Paul (Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Norfolk, St Peter (Southern Virginia)

Schools
Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, St John's Episcopal School. Preschool through grade eight. Coeducational.
Oklahoma: Tulsa, Trinity Episcopal Day School. 'serves children between the ages of 6 weeks and 6 years in our nationally accredited early childhood education program.'
Virginia: Richmond, St Michael's Episcopal School. Coeducational, kindergarten through eighth grade. [Site must be viewed in Internet Explorer]

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 vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies listings throughout the communion.

Worth Noting
Anglican Church of Australia Archive. 'This archive is part of a strategy developed in the National Church Office to enable a better understanding of Australian Anglicanism. We have initiatiated a number of community Identity seminars on our story [Anglican History], our beliefs [Anglican Theology] and how we relate to others [Anglican Missiology]. These seminars work at the post graduate level and foster their respective disciplines and publish the results of their work. More information can be found at the National Church Office website.' A well organised, attractive site with searchable texts and images. (Cross-listed in Church History.)

The Book that Breathes New Life: Scriptural Authority and Biblical Theology, by Walter Brueggemann, and A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed, by James D. G. Dunn are reviewed by Canon Dr Anthony Harvey in the Church Times. In Walter Brueggemann's collection of published articles on the Old Testament, he argues that 'the biblical text must never become familiar and domesticated—whether by the straitjacket of the historical-critical method, or the ideology (as Brueggemann is ready to call it) implicit in canonical criticism.' Dunn 'invites us to enter the world, certainly strange to modern readers, of oral transmission as it is likely to have been practised in the time of Jesus. It will have depended on repeated performance, within a community, of a remembered tradition.'

The Cambridge Companion to Karl Rahner, edited by Declan Marmion and Mary E. Hines, is reviewed in the Church Times by Canon John Macquarrie, who says 'Rahner's theology is sufficiently difficult to justify a volume devoted to interpreting him... [however] my advice to the would-be student of Rahner is: Go to his own writings and savour fully the wealth of his ideas and language. Then, if you have problems, turn to his interpreters'.

East End Chronicles, by Ed Glinert, reviewed in the Church Times by the Revd Malcolm Johnson. 'It contains well-researched information on this [East End of London] exciting part of the capital, which, with its poverty, music halls, murders and mayhem, has always held a particular fascination... Bouquets and brickbats are thrown at Christians and other philanthropists in equal measure. The Church of England comes out fairly well'. It sounds thoroughly interesting, even to the reader not up on the lore of the East End.