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Week of 22 January 2006

Anglican lists, web forums, &c
Anglican History Research list: This list was launched in January, 2006 to serve as a forum for serious bibliographic and archival inquiries about Anglican and Episcopal history. Conference announcements, calls for papers, dissertation and thesis topic announcements, etc. are welcome on the list.

Australia
Parishes
Victoria: Geelong, All Saints (Melbourne)

Schools
St Columba's College, Adelaide, South Australia. Anglican-Roman Catholic college in the Diocese of Adelaide, of about 1200 students from reception to Year 12. Founded in 1997, its motto is 'Unity in Faith.'

Book Reviews
Evolving, Unfolding World: Writing in The Tablet, Owen Gingerich reviews John Polkinghorne's new Exploring Reality.

Ordained women in the Early Church: A documentary history, reviewed for the Church Times by John Binns.

Re-Reception: In The Living Church (Milwaukee) Matthew S. C. Olver reflects on the most recent document of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC).

Sowing the Word: The Cultural Impact of the British and Foreign Bible Society 1804-2004, edited by Stephen Batalden, Kathleen Cann and John Dean, and reviewed in the Church Times by Peter Sherlock.

Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian, by David Novak, reviewed in the Church Times by Anthony Phillips.

Theory and Practice in Old Testament Ethics, by John Rogerson, reviewed in the Church Times by Jonathan G. Campbell.

Canada
Miscellaneous resources
2006 Prayer Book Calendar. This detailed and useful calendar provides collect, epistle, gospel, proper psalms, optional psalms and daily office readings for 2006 according to the Canadian Book of Common Prayer.

Church History
George Herbert's Approach to God: The Faith and Spirituality of a Country Priest, by William G. Witt. An earlier version of this article appeared in Theology Today in 2003; Witt traces 'the relationship between Herbert’s religious practices, his theology, and his spirituality as that is found both in his prose work and his poetry, leaving the criticism of his poetry — as poetry — to others.'

The Streets and Lanes of the City, by Mary Eleanor Benson (1891). Formatted for online publication by S.R. Holman of the Center for Poverty Studies, this posthumously-published book by the daughter of Archbishop of Canterbury Edward White Benson explores the impact of Christianity in London's slums during the late Victorian period. 'Nellie' Benson (1863-1890) died at 27 of diphtheria after what Holman calls a 'remarkable outreach into the public health and lower class troubles of the city.'

UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality, by David Hilliard (Victorian Studies, 1982). In this important journal article, now available online for the first time, Australian scholar David Hilliard examines social, historical and literary connections between Anglo-Catholicism and homosexuality in Britain. Adobe Acrobat format. (Cross-listed in Worth Noting)

"Unpretending Labours:" Julia Farr and the Melanesian Mission, by Janet Crawford (2004). Crawford chronicles the life of Julia Farr (1864-1951), influential Anglican missionary in Melanesia from 1892 to 1901. Adobe Acrobat format.

England
Barnes, St Mary (Southwark)
Camborne, St Martin & St Meriadoc (Truro)
Clapham, Holy Spirit (Southwark)
Falmouth, All Saints (Truro)
Highgate, St Michael (London)
Islington, Church on the Corner (London)
Langar, St Andrew (Southwell)
Mansfield, St Mark (Southwell)
Matlock, St Giles (Derby) [Works in Windows; only partially in I.E. on the Mac]
Tolworth, St George (Southwark)
Tooting, All Saints (Southwark)
Wokingham, St Sebastian (Oxford)

Miscellaneous resources
St John's Guild for the Blind. 'founded in 1919 through the initiative of Miss Dorothy Light and the Rev. Christian Waudby, a blind Anglican priest who was concerned at the isolation and loneliness in which so many blind people lived. It supports over 20 Member Branches throughout England, has its own registered Care Home in St. Albans, as well as a Holiday and Short break Centre in Clacton-on-Sea.'

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
Albany. Nominations end on 23 January 2006; five nominations have been received to date according to the diocesan bishop-search website. Albany Via Media has regular commentary on the election process. A special convention for election will be held on 25 March at the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany, New York.

California. The Search Committee for a new bishop has reviewed the nominees' written submissions, including their essays responding to its Six Questions. Over a dozen received phone interviews in November. On the basis of the phone interviews, a smaller number has been chosen to receive personal interviews in January. The slate of 4 to 6 nominees will be chosen from this group, and reported to the Standing Committee by February 20. Photographs and short biographies of the slate will then be posted on the diocesan bishop search website, which includes a fair amount of information in Spanish.

Central Pennsylvania. Beginning in February, the Discernment Committee will screen and visit candidates, and conduct background checks. Elections will be held at a diocesan convention on 21 and 22 July 2006. The diocesan website includes mission and theological statements prepared in connection with the bishop search, as well as a collect.

Eastern Michigan. Nominations are closed; nominations by petition begin on 1 February 2006 and end on 15 February.

Hawai'i. Search and Transition Committee members have been elected and participated in a mandatory overnight retreat with the Standing Committee of the diocese at Mokule'ia. Three to five nominees will be presented to the Standing Committee in August. The diocesan bishop search website includes information on procedures, deadlines and committee membership.

Newark. Screening of candidates by the Nominating Committee begins on 1 February 2006. Nominees for Tenth Bishop of Newark will be announced on 28 June. The online Diocesan Profile includes extensive information about the diocese and its vision for a new bishop.

Northern California. Nominations by petition end on 3 March 2006; on-site visits of the nominees are in progress in January and February.

Olympia. Nominations for the bishop search committee were closed on 6 January 2006; nominees met in retreat on 21 January.

South Carolina (dedicated website). At the end of January 2006, the Search Committee will send a second questionnaire to potential candidates; telephone interviews of candidates are in progress from January to March.

Southwest Florida. Nominations will be accepted from 1 May to 7 July 2006; this election of a coadjutor was first called on 9 October 2004. A period of extensive self-study and profile development has preceded the nominations.

Tennessee (dedicated website). Nominations by petition closed on 11 January 2006; the three nominees will be presented to the diocese on 25 and 26 February. An election convention will be held on 18 March 2006.

Events
Canada: [British Columbia] Vancouver, 4 February 2006. The Genius of Anglicanism: Does it Have a Future? The Very Reverend Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, explores this question and its possible answers. 7:30 pm at St Philip's Anglican Church (3737 West 27th Ave.) For additional information contact Randy Murray.

United States: [California] San Diego, 16 - 18 February 2006. Society of Christian Philosophers Pacific Regional Meeting. Selves, Souls and Survival.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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Liturgical Resources/Daily Office
The Liturgical Spectrum. This bright and colourful illustrated essay from Full Homely Divinity explores the colour scheme of the liturgical year, and offers suggestions for each season and many individual feasts.

Music Resources
Music of the Sarum Office, edited by Dr William Renwick. Hosted jointly by Project Canterbury and on the servers of McMaster University. 'The Gregorian Institute of Canada is in the initial stages of the publication of the Music of the Sarum Office, containing the full text and music of all the services of the office for all Sundays, Week-days, Feasts and Fasts of the Year and Saints Days. This edition, comprising approximately 5000 pages of text and music, will in the first instance be published serially in PDF format. Each installment, which will contain approximately 50 pages of the edition, will be reviewed for content and accuracy by an Advisory Board before publication.' Files in Adobe Acrobat format.

News Centre
Diocesan plan for avian flu. Averting apocalypse in England. Compromise over women bishops. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
Episcopalians and Technology Survey: The Church Pension Group has prepared this short, anonymous survey with 37 questions to determine how Episcopalians use the internet.

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USA
Georgia: Thomson, Holy Cross (Georgia)
Missouri: Florissant, St Barnabas (Missouri)
Montana: Ruby Valley Episcopal Churches [Christ Church, Sheridan; St Paul, Virginia City] (Montana)

Resources
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/USA. 'The purpose of SPCK/USA, its roots firmly in the Anglican Communion, is to enable Christians in their indigenous churches to grow in faith and knowledge. SPCK/USA supports projects for the creation, preparation, and distribution of Christian knowledge by utilizing print and other media. As a missionary society, SPCK/USA works for the proclamation and understanding of the gospel in and by all nations.'

Vacancies Centre
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Worth Noting
UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality, by David Hilliard (Victorian Studies, 1982). In this important journal article, now available online for the first time, Australian scholar David Hilliard examines social, historical and literary connections between Anglo-Catholicism and homosexuality in Britain. (Cross-listed in Church History.)

Week of 15 January 2006

Canada
Ontario: London, Redeemer (Huron)
Ontario: London, St Alban the Martyr (Huron)
Ontario: London, St Jude (Huron)

Church History
Missions to the Oneidas, by Susan Fenimore Cooper (1885-1886). This substantial series of 16 articles, serialized in The Living Church (Milwaukee) traces the history of Anglican life among the Oneida tribe in New York state and Wisconsin. Susan Fenimore Cooper was an active Anglican, a prominent supporter of women's civil rights, daughter to James Fenimore Cooper and niece of William Heathcote DeLancey, the pre-Tractarian High Churchman who became first Bishop of Western New York in 1839.

"Songs by the Way:" The Poetical Writings of the Right Rev. George Washington Doane, arranged and edited by his son, William Croswell Doane (1860 edition). G.W. Doane (1799-1859) was a prolific poet and hymnographer; the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica notes that 'He belonged to the High Church party and was a brilliant controversialist.'

England
Bath, Holy Trinity (Bath and Wells)
Chalgrove, St Mary (Oxford)
Charlbury, St Mary the Virgin (Oxford)
Ducklington, St Bartholomew (Oxford)
Hanwell, St Mellitus with St Mark (London)
Langford, St Mary (Bath and Wells)
Leeds, St Peter (Ripon and Leeds) [Best seen in Windows or I.E. on Mac]
Taunton, St Andrew (Bath and Wells)
Taunton, St James (Bath and Wells)
Thornhill, Thornhill Parish Church (Wakefield)

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

Liturgical Resources/Daily Office
The Communion Service from the Book of Common Prayer, With Select Readings from the Writings of the Rev. F. D. Maurice, M.A., edited by John William Colenso (1874 edition). In 1855 Colenso prepared this anthology of the writings of Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872); it was to be sold for the benefit of mission work in the Diocese of Natal, then recently erected in what is now South Africa.

Directorium Anglicanum; Being a Manual of Directions for the Right Celebration of the Holy Communion, For the Saying of Matins and Evensong, and for the Performance of Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to Ancient Uses of the Church of England, edited by John Purchas (1858, first edition). This seminal work of the nineteenth-century ritualist movement is now available online, replete with scans of its numerous engravings.

Music Resources
The Choir School in the American Church: A study of the choir school and other current chorister training models in Episcopal and Anglican parishes, by Daniel James McGrath (University of California doctoral dissertation, 2005) This dissertation examines the history of Anglican choir schools in the United States, as well as pedagogical methods for parish choirs today. Adobe Acrobat format.

UK Incorporated Association of Organists. Complete with links to any aspect of the instrument, 'the IAO encompasses the professional organist, church musician, amateur player, organ–builder, and music–lover.'

News Centre
New Church of England attendance figures. Africans and Americans meet in Alabama. End of Nolbert Kunonga trial. Starting over in Lake Malawi bishop search. Former Bishop of London suggested as RC Cardinal. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Florida: Brooksville, St John (Southwest Florida)
Florida: Marco Island, St Mark (Southwest Florida)
New York: New Rochelle, Trinity and St Paul (New York)
Ohio: Wyoming, Ascension and Holy Trinity (Southern Ohio)
Pennsylvania: Hellertown, St George (Bethlehem)
Wyoming: Lander, Trinity Church (Wyoming)

Vacancies Centre
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Vestments
Moral Fibers. Based in Tennessee, Annette Noe is a liturgical designer of stoles, chasubles and banners, all of which are made with silk. (She offers a stole workshop at Sewanee: University of the South.)

Worth Noting
Auden and Christianity, by Arthur Kirsch, is reviewed in the Church Times by Ronald Blythe. 'Beautifully written, brief, and persuasive, his book traces Auden’s faith through some of his most celebrated poems, through his early and late days, and through his literary criticism.'

The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology, by Eberhard Busch, is reviewed in the Church Times by Graham Gould. 'To read this book is to immerse oneself in a theological world-view that is powerful and inspiring, now just as during the crises of the Nazi era. For readers who have a good general theological awareness, if not for novice students of theology, this can be commended as one of the best introductions to Barth available.'

The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology Since 1918, 3rd edition, edited by David Ford and Rachel Muers, is reviewed by Simon Oliver. 'This volume presents the reader with basic information, but also demonstrates the dynamic practice of theology. It is to be warmly commended as a fresh resource for anyone seeking a path into the breadth and rigours of theological conversation today, and over the past one hundred years.'