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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USA
Arizona: Globe, St John (Arizona)
California: Laguna Beach, St Mary (Los Angeles)
District of Columbia: Trinity Church (Washington,
DC)
Maine: Gardiner, Christ
Church (Maine)
Maine: Kennebunk, St David
(Maine)
Maine: Portland, Trinity
(Maine)
Maine: Winn, St Thomas
(Maine)
North Carolina: Fuquay-Varina, Trinity (North Carolina)
North Carolina: Wake Forest, St John (North Carolina)
Texas: Waco, Episcopal Student Center serves
Baylor University, McLennan Community College, and Texas State Technical
College.
Virginia: Bon Air, St Michael
(Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Chesapeake, Church
of the Messiah (Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Chesapeake, St
Thomas (Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Hampton, St
John (Southern Virginia) ['oldest English-speaking parish in
America']
Virginia: Midlothian, St Matthias
(Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Norfolk, Church of the
Advent (Southern Virginia)
Virginia: Onancock, Holy
Trinity (Southern Virginia)
Washington: Seattle, Apostles
(Olympia)
Wisconsin: LaCrosse, Christ
Church
(Eau Claire)
Wisconsin: Menomonie, Grace Church
(Eau Claire)
Wisconsin: Rice Lake, Grace
Church (Eau Claire)
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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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Scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies listings throughout
the communion.
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.
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