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.
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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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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'. |
