Week
of 23 April 2006
Australia
Victoria: Melbourne (Carlton North), St Michael (Melbourne)
Victoria: Melbourne (Carlton), St Jude (Melbourne)
Book
Reviews
Lords
of Parliament: Manners, Rituals and Politics, by Emma Crewe,
reviewed in The Church Times by John Habgood. '[A] book of enormous interest to anyone who wants to know how the House of Lords works, and what part it plays in government.'
Worship without Dumbing-Down: Knowing God through Liturgy, by Peter
Toon, reviewed in The Church Times by Peter McGeary. 'Words and actions matter. They express what we believe — or, at least, they should... [Toon makes] a useful attempt to reconnect liturgy and doctrine in a particular context. And that is something we should be doing, whether we use the Book of Common Prayer or not.'
A
Sociological History of Christian Worship, by Martin D. Stringer,
reviewed in The Church Times by Christopher Irvine. Stringer saves the reader from sociological jargon, 'define[s] his terms, and at every turn to explain the direction and flow of the argument... Due consideration is given to the origins of Christian worship; but we are shown how worship diversifies as it develops, influencing — and itself being coloured by — the social context in which it is set.'
Church
History
The
Altar; or Meditations in Verse on the Great Christian Sacrifice,
by Isaac Williams (1849). Williams (1802-1865) was a Tractarian poet
and theologian; in this large poem cycle of 204 sonnets, he reflects
on 34 events from Christ's prayer in Gethsemane to Pentecost.
Essays
on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion",
by J.B. Lightfoot (1893). Project Gutenberg announces the online
publication of this important work by English biblical and patristic
scholar Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889). Lightfoot served as
Bishop of Durham from 1879 to 1889.
The
Mind of Christ Jesus in the Church of the Living God,
by Charles Henry Brent (1908). Brent (1862-1929) was the Canadian-born
American Episcopalian first Bishop of the Philippines.
'I have two objects in mind in writing this Charge. First to make
clear to my present and to my prospective fellow-missionaries the
principles that actuate my administrations. Secondly that donors
to this Missionary District may labour under no misconception as
to the character of the work which their gifts support.'
England
Christchurch, Christ Church Priory (Winchester)
Colchester, St Leonard (Chelmsford)
Parish of Dorchester [St
George, Fordington; St Mary, Victoria Park; St Peter, Dorchester] (Salisbury)
Emcote, All Saints (Coventry)
Parish of Great Ayton
with Easby and Newton-in-Cleveland [Christ Church, All Saints, St Oswald] (York)
Portsea, St Mary [with
St Faith and St Wilfrid] (Portsmouth)
Seaton Carew, Holy Trinity (Durham)
Stisted, All Saints (Chelmsford)
Woodford Bridge, St Paul (Chelmsford)
Episcopal
Elections or Announcements
Complete
The 30 April 2006 issue of The Living Church (Milwaukee) reports
that the Right Reverend Wilfrido Ramos-Orench, Bishop Suffragan of Connecticut,
will take office as 'provisional Bishop of Ecuador Central' on 1 June.
On 30 April
2006 Dr Mark Burton will be consecrated as Bishop of the Northern Region
in the Diocese of Perth, Australia. According
to an article
from Anglican Media Sydney, this will mark only the second time
in a hundred years that an Australian Defence Force chaplain has been
consecrated to the episcopate. A graduate of Ridley College, Dr
Burton was ordained to the priesthood in 1990 and served in the
Diocese of Melbourne until 1999, when he was commissioned as Chaplain
to the Royal Australian Navy Reserve.
Events
USA: New York City, 27 April 2006: Printed Bibles from Gutenberg
to King James
Paul
Needham, Scheide Librarian at Princeton University, will
lecture on early printed Bibles at the General
Theological Seminary, New York. 7pm.
England:
London, 28 April 2006: Fulcrum Conference
Gospel
in Context: Among Many Cultures and Among Many Faiths at St
Mary's Church Upper Street Islington N1
The
cultural context in which the Church in Britain operates is
changing all the time. In the last five decades the world has
come to our doorstep and this presents a whole raft of questions
for the Christian community here: Are all religions basically
the same? What ground rules are needed for co-existence? Is
the spectre of a clash of civilisations inevitable?
Speakers include David
Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, the first lay person to
hold the Regius Professorship at Cambridge University and the
Most Rev Dr Sentamu, Archbishop of York, the first African-born
Archbishop of York.
More
information: fulcrum-anglican.org.uk
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Liturgical
Resources
Cathedral Rosaries: Kathy Chambers writes that 'this is much more than simply a business to me - first and foremost, it is a way to assist people who seek a tangible way to have a deeper prayer life.' She
makes 'rosaries that more accurately reflected the beauty
of the faith, drawing her inspiration from the colors found in
the stained glass windows of Gothic Cathedrals, the liturgical colors
of the Church, and the beauty of nature'.
New
Zealand
Birkdale Beach Haven, Anglican Community Church (Auckland)
News
Centre
Former ABC rebuts open letter. Concelebration in Ireland. Nigerian archbishop demands justice. Easter messages from around the Communion. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
Odds
and Ends
Maundy
Money: The Royal Mint provides an informative page about
the ancient custom of minting and distributing special Maundy
coins: 'At the ceremony which takes place annually on Maundy
Thursday, the sovereign hands to each recipient two small leather
string purses. One, a red purse, contains — in ordinary coinage — money
in lieu of food and clothing; the other, a white purse, contains
silver Maundy coins consisting of the same number of pence
as the years of the sovereign's age.'
Tiro
Typeworks:
This fascinating website on writing systems for North American indigenous
peoples includes substantial resources on the typographical work of
Anglican missionaries John Horden and Edmund Peck. We particularly
enjoy this
page on Methodist missionary James Evans, inventor of the
syllabic system still in extensive use in central and western Canada.
Excellent downloads; attractive site.
Religious
Orders
Mariya uMama weThemba Monastery:
Grahamstown, South Africa. This house of the US-based Order
of the Holy Cross has an informative new site. 'Three guest
houses sit on about 50 hectares of hillside. Paths for walking
are cleared and you can meander through the beauty of the Eastern
Cape. Bird life is varied and abounding.'
The
Order of Saint Francis, Seattle:
This small order describes itself as 'an Active Franciscan Order in
the Diocese of Olympia'. One of its members makes Franciscan
beanies.
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USA
Parishes
Arkansas: Siloam Springs, Grace
Church (Arkansas)
California: Oakhurst, Christ Church (San Joaquin)
Maryland: Berlin, St Paul (Easton)
Maryland: Hebron, St Paul (Easton)
Maryland: Marion, St Paul (Easton)
Independent
Organisations
Anglican Alliance of North
Florida: 'In light of the opportunities presented by the on-going realignment
in the Anglican Communion and for the sake of expanding the Kingdom of
God, we have formed an alliance of Anglican congregations and clergy in
North Florida committed to [...] full communion only with "Anglican
churches, dioceses and provinces that hold and maintain the historic faith,
doctrine, sacraments and discipline of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic
Church."'
Vacancies
Centre
List a parish or diocesan opening for one month at AO -- at no charge.
What a bargain! The more you use our free service, the more useful it
will become for all.
New Zealand: Tonga Islands, All Saints. Volunteer youth assistance.
For more information see our Vacancies Centre.
Seeking a position? Scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies
listings throughout the communion.
World
India: Trivandrum, Mateer
Memorial Church (South Kerala)
Worth
Noting
A church asunder: Peter Boyer writes for the New Yorker about the current state of the US Episcopal Church.
Dismantling the barriers to belief. The first in a series of articles in the Church Times by Alister McGrath. The remainder are The attempt to disprove God; Reports of the death of God are greatly exaggerated; and Reconnecting with our storytelling roots.
Blood
Sport: This editorial from The Living Church (Milwaukee)
address the roles of the media as the Episcopal Church USA prepares
for its next General Convention. 'Ubiquitous discussion lists,
blogs, and websites have made instant newsgathering, analysis,
and commentary a part of life within the Church. While these forums
are invaluable communications tools with powerful potential as
tools for ministry, they also can and are being used as powerful
weapons.'
The logic of all purity movements is to exclude: Andrew Linzey, writing in The Times (London) argues that Anglicans should listen to the Holy Spirit and not to schismatic fundamentalists.
Thinking
Faithfully about Sex and Marriage:
On 19 April 2006 the Primate's Theological Commission of the Anglican
Church of Canada released this report by the Reverend Jamie Howson.
It is also available in
Adobe Acrobat format. |
