Week of 5
March 2006
Africa
South Africa:
Silvertown, St
Mark (Cape
Town)
Australia
Parishes
Queensland: Toowoomba, St Bartholomew (Brisbane)
Book Reviews
Paul:
Fresh Perspectives,
by N T Wright, is reviewed by John Court with Edwin D Freed's The Morality
of Paul's Converts in the Church Times.
Reason
and the Reasons of Faith,
edited by Paul J Griffiths and Reinhard Hütter, is reviewed in
the Church Times by Hugh Rayment-Pickard.
Timothy Gorringe
reviews The
Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value, also in
the Church Times.
Church
History
Extracts
from the Journal of the Bishop of Honolulu, by Thomas Nettleship Staley
(1863). This fascinating narrative of the establishment of 'the Mission to
the Sandwich Islands' includes contemporary newspaper reports and accounts
of several meetings with the Hawai'ian royal family. Also newly online are two
sermons preached by T N Staley (1823-1898) at his farewell service
in Westminster Abbey, and at the temporary cathedral in Honolulu.
The
Prospects of the East African Mission, by O E Vidal (1850). In
this extended pamphlet, Owen Emeric Vidal (1819-1855), the first Bishop
of Sierra Leone, reflects on linguistic and cultural matters connected
with Anglican church life in eastern Africa. Vidal's premature death
at 35 stalled the beginnings of this mission in what are now Sierra Leone,
The Gambia and Ghana.
Reasons
for Not Joining a Party in the Church, by F D Maurice (1841). This
wonderful open letter by Maurice (1805-1872) suggests that church life
has not changed very much in the last 160-odd years.
A
Sermon Occasioned by the Burning of the Episcopal Church in the Parish
of Grand Manan, NB, Preached by the Rev. John Dunn (1841). This
sermon following the arson of an island church in New Brunswick neglects
to mention that an effigy of the parish priest was found hanging near
the church on the same night. Evidence pointed to Wilford Fisher, known
as the 'Emperor of Grand Manan,' but no conviction was made. A stone
church, still standing, replaced the first building.
England
Parishes
Beckton, St Mark (Chelmsford)
Borstal, St Matthew (Rochester)
Cosham, St Philip (Portsmouth)
Cowplain, St Wilfrid (Portsmouth)
Henbury, St Mary with St
Mark, Brentry (Bristol)
Market Drayton, St Mary (Lichfield) [must
be viewed with Microsoft browser]
Stoke
on Trent, St Paul, Edensor (Lichfield)
Stone, St
Mary the Virgin (Rochester)
Westerham, St Mary the
Virgin (Rochester)
Episcopal
Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
The Diocese of Tennessee has
released audio files of its four candidates' small group discussions.
In addition to the nominating committee's original three nominees, the Reverend
Winston B. Charles of Raleigh, North Carolina has been nominated by petition.
Events
USA: Virginia, Richmond, 18 March 2006: Inaugural Jones-Murray Lecture
The inaugural Jones-Murray lecture, named for Absalom Jones and Anna
Pauline (Pauli) Murray, the first African American male and female priests
in the Episcopal Church respectively, will be held at 11 a.m. on 18 March
at St
James Church, Richmond, Virginia. Dr Harold T
Lewis, rector of Calvary Church,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will be the keynote speaker.
Lent
and Easter Resources
Churchyear.net has produced a worthwhile Church
Fathers Lenten Reading Plan for download.
Letters
to Anglicans Online
Have a read.
Write a letter of your own to us for possible publication.
New
Zealand
Onslow Anglicans [St Barnabas,
Khandallah; All Saints, Ngaio] (Wellington)
News
Centre
ABC fears 'rupture' of Church. Australian orphanage lawsuit. Reports from the Nigerian
battlefront. Clergy pension squeeze in England. Church and State in the UK. US Presiding
Bishop in Cuba. More on ABC's speech at WCC. Tomb and shrine of St Chad discovered.
All this, and more, in the News Centre.
Religious
Orders
Community of St John Baptist (UK).
This women's religious community, founded in 1852 by Mother
Harriet Monsell and Canon
T T Carter, now shares its life and work with the Community of the Companions
of Jesus the Good Shephard at the common convent near Oxford.
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USA
Parishes
Connecticut: Killingworth, Emmanuel
Church (Connecticut)
Massachusetts: Fitchburg, Good
Shepherd (Western Massachusetts)
Resources
Evelyn Underhill Association:
This American non-profit organisation 'promotes the study of the works of
Evelyn Underhill and supports research and writing about her ideas.' Underhill
(1875-1941) was an Anglican pacifist, writer and prolific scholar of Christian
mysticism and prayer.
Vacancies
Centre
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a bargain! The more you use our free service, the more useful it will become
for all.
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listings throughout the communion.
Worth
Noting
The
Archbishop of Canterbury's Address to the Ninth Meeting of the World Council
of Churches, Porto Alegre, Brazil: In this speech delivered on 17 February
2006, Rowan Williams notes that the 'question of Christian identity in a
world of plural perspectives and convictions cannot be answered in clichés
about the tolerant co-existence of different opinions.'
The Revd Dr Giles Fraser spoke about Lent on the BBC. The short
transcript is well worth reading. |
