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Week of 19 March 2006

Book Reviews
Sam Wells reviews Timothy Radcliffe's What is the Point of Being a Christian? in the Church Times.

Do Christians Know How to be Spiritual? The Rise of New Spirituality and the Mission of the Church, by John Drane, reviewed by Angela Tilby in the Church Times.

The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England, by D. Bruce Hindmarsh, reviewed by Colin Podmore in the Church Times.

Church History
Address of H.B. Whipple on the 25th Anniversary of His Election as Bishop of Minnesota (1884). Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) was the first Bishop of Minnesota. During his long episcopate, he built the first cathedral in the American Episcopal Church at Faribault, and had a consistent record of involvement in mediating disputes between Euro-American settlers and Native Americans. This address includes numerous detailed engravings. Whipple was also the author of Plea for the Red Man (1868) and the preface to A Century of Dishonor.

The Apology of the Church of England, by John Jewel (1888 edition by Henry Morley). Jewel (1522-1571), was Bishop of Salisbury. In this essential Anglican historical text, first published in 1562, Jewel makes what the Encyclopedia Britannica calls 'the first methodical statement of the position of the Church of England against the Church of Rome'.

The Cruise of the Beacon: A Narrative of a Visit to the Islands in Bass's Straits, by Francis Russell Nixon (1857). This remarkable and readable journal of the missionary explorations of the first Bishop of Tasmania, F.R. Nixon (1803-1879), includes many engravings based on his own drawings.

Five Years' Church Work in the Kingdom of Hawaii, by Thomas Nettleship Staley (1868). Staley (1823-1898) was the first Bishop of Honolulu; in this account he chronicles the beginnings and progress of Anglican life in the Hawai'ian islands.

England
Parishes
Bournemouth, St John with St Michael (Winchester)
Camberley, St Martin (Guildford)
Camberley, St Michael (Guildford)
Camberley, St Paul (Guildford)
Guernsey, St Saviour (Winchester)
Jersey, St Brelade (Winchester)
Leigh, St Mary (Rochester)
Milton, St James (Portsmouth)
Pitsmoor, Christ Church (Sheffield)
Portchester, St Mary (Portsmouth)
Southsea, St Luke (Portsmouth)
Tamerton Foliot, St Mary (Exeter)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
The Diocese of West Texas will elect a suffragan bishop on 25 March 2006. Full information on nominees is available online.

Following a candidate forum at Christ the King Spiritual Life Center in Greenwich, New York on 24 March, 2006, the Diocese of Albany will elect a coadjutor at the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany. The dedicated coadjutor election website has much more information.

After ten hours of voting and fourteen ballots, the Diocese of Tennessee failed to select a new bishop on 18 March 2006. The election will resume on 25 March. Information on balloting, nominees and procedures can be accessed at the diocese's episcopal election site.

Episcopal News Service reports that Bishop Stacy F. Sauls of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky has been added to the list of nominees for Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA.

Exchanges
USA -> Ireland or England for July 2006: I am interested in either a swap or supply situation for the month of July in Ireland or England with housing. My wife, Carol, and I would like to spend time visiting family and friends in Ireland and England. I am rector of St. Bede's Episcopal Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico. St. Bede's is an inclusive, program size church which is Eucharistically centered. Our house, newly built with 3 bedrooms, close to the church and the famous Santa Fe Plaza, would be available as well as a car. Santa Fe is located in northern New Mexico, USA. It is an area rich in history, art, cultural diversity, and unsurpassed scenic beauty. If there is someone wishing an exchange, male or female, they would find St. Bede's to be a warm, inviting, hospitable faith community. They would also find our ecumenical and interfaith relations to be welcoming and supportive as well. We have traveled in England and Ireland before and would prefer proximity to public transportation although we are willing to drive around as well. Richard Murphy.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
3 new candidates for ECUSA PB. ACK apologises for past AIDS stance. Templeton prize for 2006 awarded. More on Pennsylvania bishop feud. Fire destroys Alaska church. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Scotland
Glencarse, All Saints (Brechin)
Greenock, St John (Glasgow and Galloway)
Montrose, St Mary and St Peter (Brechin)
Stobwell, Dundee, St John (Brechin)

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World
The Bahamas: Centerville, New Providence, Nassau, St George (The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos)

Worth Noting
The Anglican and the Atheist: This Australian radio show is now available in podcast format. It features the Reverend Howard Langmead, Anglican priest, stand up comic, laughter workshop facilitator, husband, dad and dog owner in dialogue with atheist Brett de Hoedt. Hootville Communications, the producer of the broadcast, predicts that 'this will become the world's leading Anglican podcast'.

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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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.