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Week of 12 March 2006

Australia
Parishes
Queensland: Toowoomba, St Luke (Brisbane)

Anglican Resources in Australia
Brass for Africa: This group based in Springwood Winmalee Anglican Church has supported evangelism, medical and education work in the Congo for 10 years. Based in the Blue Mountains 80km west of Sydney, Brass For Africa is led by former CMS missionaries Graham and Wendy Toulmin.

Canada
British Columbia: Sapperton, St Mary the Virgin (New Westminster)
Nova Scotia: Dartmouth, St Andrew, Port Wallis (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)
Ontario: Chatham, Holy Trinity (Huron)

Church History
A Man of God Approved in Christ! A Sermon Commemorative of the Life of the Rt. Rev. William Jones Boone, D.D., Missionary Bishop to China, by William Bacon Stevens (1865). This long memorial sermon recounts the life of lawyer, doctor and bishop William Jones Boone (1811-1864), first bishop of the American Episcopal Church's mission to China.

Frederick O'Meara's First Report (1846) and Second Report of a Mission to the Ottahwahs and Ojibwas on Lake Huron (1849) are now available online. O'Meara (1814-1888) began an Anglican mission on Grand Manitoulin Island, Ontario in 1839. He translated the Prayer Book, New Testament, Psalms and part of the Old Testament into Ojibwe in connection with this missionary work.

Reasons Why I Became a Reformed Episcopalian, by W. R. Nicholson (1875). This pamphlet explains the decision of one evangelical Episcopalian leader in the nineteenth century to join the Reformed Episcopal schism.

England
Parishes
Barrowby, All Saints (Lincoln)
Farnham, St Andrew (Guildford)
Grayshott, St Luke (Guildford)
Kinver, St Peter (Lichfield)
Penge, St John the Evangelist (Rochester)
Portsdown, Christ Church (Portsmouth)
Sheet, St Mary Magdalene (Portsmouth)
Sidcup, St Andrew (Rochester)
Slade Green, St Augustine (Rochester)
Wilden, All Saints (Worcester)
York, St Mary Bishophill Junior (York)

Events
Canada: Ontario, Dunville, 9-11 June 2006: The National Cranmer Conference
This conference for young people is sponsored by a collection of Canadian church organisations. 'Coupled with the timeless liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer, you'll be exposed to discourse, lectures, devotions, music, recreation and good food'.

USA: Oklahoma, Tulsa, 30 April-2 May 2006: Episcopal Women's Conference
This conference will include workshops on prayer, walking a labyrinth, pilgrimage, sacred drumming, liturgical dance and enriching corporate worship. Author Phyllis Tickle will be the keynote speaker; Margaret Rose, the national Director of Women's Ministries for the Episcopal Church will speak on the Anglican Women's Empowerment movement and Beijing circles; Janet Farmer, Province VII ECW president, will facilitate workshops on women's groups.

Lent and Easter Resources
The Words from His Throne: A Study of the Cross, by the Rt Revd Charles Lewis Slattery while he was Bishop of Massachusetts.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
ABC to visit Rome. Former ABC supports new US province. Justice still elusive in Harare. California inmate priest to be released. ABC writes to Primates about Lambeth 2008. ACC chairman apologises to ECUSA. ABC chides world community on aid to Sudan. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Evangelical Episcopal Church: 'The vision of the Evangelical Episcopal Church is to build a family of churches and ministries where the Sacramental, Evangelical and Charismatic converge to transform the world through the proclamation of God's kingdom on earth'.

Scotland
Bathgate, St Columba (Edinburgh)
Dunbar, St Anne (Edinburgh)
Edinburgh, St Columba by the Castle (Edinburgh)
Forfar, St John (St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane)
Linlithgow, St Peter (Edinburgh)
North Edinburgh, St David of Scotland (Edinburgh)
Rothiemurchus, St John (Moray, Ross and Caithness)
Selkirk, St John (Edinburgh)
Stirling, Holy Trinity (St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane)

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Vacancies Centre
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World
The Bahamas: Nassau, Christ Church Cathedral (The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos)
The Bahamas: New Providence, Nassau, All Saints (The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos)
The Bahamas: New Providence, Nassau, Church of the Epiphany (The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos)
The Bahamas: Soldier Road, New Providence, Nassau, Holy Cross (The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos)
The Bahamas: Grants Town, New Providence, Nassau, St Agnes (The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos)

Worth Noting
View from Fleet Street: Thinking Anglicans has reproduced the column written by The Guardian's Stephen Bates for the Church of England News.

Missionary faiths need reciprocity and detente: an interview in The Times (London) with the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali.

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
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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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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.