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Week of 30 April 2006

Africa
Church Army Africa. An informative website for this 'Society of Anglican evangelists, missionaries, and pioneering change agents who seek to positively bring transformation throughout Africa through the power of Jesus'.

Associations, Guilds
The Society of Archbishops Cranmer and Laud: 'The Society is established to be beneficial to members of the Anglican Church, particularly the clergy and especially those in the traditional Anglican community, who desire to see the Anglican Christianity of the Book of Common Prayer strengthened and preserved.'

Australia
Our extensive listings of Australian dioceses, parishes and other resources were re-organised this week. Please visit for what we hope will be a more user-friendly online experience.

Book Reviews
Thinking about God in an Age of Technology, by George Pattison, reviewed in The Church Times by John Macquarrie. '"The most challenging problem of technology today is not how . . . to develop genetic engineering or to send a manned mission to Mars, but to accept and understand our responsibility for technology." So claims Professor Pattison; and, according to him, this is at the same time a problem for theology, one that he faces squarely in this difficult but important book.'

The Postcolonial Biblical Reader, edited by R. S. Sugirtharajah, reviewed in The Church Times by Michael Doe. 'So read this book if, like me, you need to find out more about new ways of reading the Bible, and whether this leaves scripture with any authority. Read this book if, like me, you want to understand why liberals from the North and post-liberals from the South have agendas different from those of the conservatives in the Global South. But don’t expect easy answers.'

Anglican Papalism: An Illustrated History 1900-1960, by Michael Yelton, reviewed in The Church Times by Kenneth Leech. 'The word "papalist" was first used - in scorn, Yelton tells us - by Sidney Dark, sometime editor of The Church Times. But later it was used with pride by those who believed that the provinces of Canterbury and York were part of the Western Church, having been severed from Rome by events for which they were not responsible.'

Church History
Addington Venables, Bishop of Nassau, by W.F.H. King (1887). This fascinating book about the second Bishop of Nassau is now available online. Venables (1827-1876) was a close associate of several Tractarian leaders. This rare biography includes a wealth of anecdotes about the bishop as well as an important look at Anglican life in the West Indies in the late nineteenth century.

The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice, by Daniel Brevint (first published in 1673, 1847 edition). Brevint (1616-1695) was a native of Jersey who ended his life as Dean of Lincoln. This examination of the theology of the eucharist was an important influence on early Wesleyan eucharistic theology, and it was originally slated for inclusion in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology.

Facts about the Church's Mission in Haiti, by James Theodore Holly (1897). This pamphlet by J.T. Holly (1829-1911) provides a look at the needs and life of the Episcopal Church's mission to Haiti under his care. Holly was the first African American bishop of the Episcopal Church; a proposal for his inclusion in the ECUSA's calendar of Lesser Feasts and Fasts will be considered at this summer's General Convention.

England
Parishes
Binbrook Group [St Mary and St Gabriel, Binbrook; St Mary and St Peter, Ludford; St Faith, Kelstern; St Helen, Swinhope; All Saints, Wold Newton; All Saints, Thorganby] (Lincoln)
Parish of Fawkham and Hartley [St Mary, Fawkwham; All Saints, Hartley] (Rochester)
Parish of Hornchurch [St Andrew, St George, St Matthew, Suttons Farm] (Chelmsford)
Parish of Knockholt and Halstead
[St Katherine, Knockholt; St Margaret, Halstead] (Rochester)
Syston Team Ministry [St Peter and St Paul, Syston; St Mary, Barkby; St Hilda, East Goscote; St Mary, Queniborough; Holy Trinity, Thrussington; St Michael and All Angels, Rearsby; St Botolph, Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake] (Leicester)
Parish of Timperley [Christ Church and Holy Cross] (Chester)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Complete
On 29 April the Episcopal Diocese of Texas announced the election of the Venerable Dena Harrison as bishop suffragan. She will be consecrated on 7 October at Camp Allen, Texas.

Events
England: 7 May 2006: Vocations Sunday
The Church of England's website provides a range of information about Vocations Sunday 2006.

USA: New York City, 16 May 2006: Presentation of the Union Medal to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
The Union Theological Seminary will award its highest honour to Desmond Tutu in recognition of 'the spiritual leadership he provided in the dismantling of South Africa's apartheid system and his visionary efforts to foster societal healing and democratic ideals'; for more information visit this page.

England: London, 26 May 2006: Requiem for Bishop David Hand
The Papua New Guinea Church Partnership announces a requiem service for David Hand, once the youngest bishop in the Anglican Communion. Bishop Hand (1918-2006) died on 6 April after a long and distinguished missionary career in Papua New Guinea. He was one of three young priests who went to the country shortly after World War II in order to replace a group of missionaries who had been martyred there in 1942.

Australia: Canberra, 25-27 August 2006: 2nd Biennial Australian National University Missionary History Conference
Presentations on New Zealand/Aotorean, Pacific Islander, Chinese, Hong Kong, Indian, Singaporean, Malaysian, Indonesian, African, Canadian, and Australian contributions to Christian missions, domestic and foreign, in the Asia-Pacific region, are invited. Presentation time is 40 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts are required by 30 May 2006. For more information and a registration form visit this page.

Letters to Anglicans Online
Have a read. Write a letter of your own to us for possible publication.

Liturgical Resources
The Lord's Prayer in Twenty-four Languages as Used in the Diocese of Melanesia among the Islands of the South Pacific: This brief liturgical document, published in 1926, provides a look at what is probably the most linguistically diverse province of the Anglican Communion.

The Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth, by Natalie Knödel: This 1995 academic paper on the 'Churching of Women' explores its history in eastern and western Christianity, its liturgical texts, and modern feminist perspectives on the rite. (Cross-listed in Odds and Ends)

Music Resources
Opus Anglicanum: This acclaimed group of five men's voices along with reader John Touhey (formerly of the BBC World Service) presents themed sequences of music and readings. They teach workshops in Gregorian chant, and have an impressive array of CDs for sale. Founded in 1988.

News Centre
Following the money. Debunking the Da Vinci Code. Texas elects female bishop suffragan. ACC applauds schools agreement. Obituary: David Hand. Australian roots to Carey letter. Canada's primate to retire. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
The Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth, by Natalie Knödel: This 1995 academic paper on the 'Churching of Women' explores its history in eastern and western Christianity, its liturgical texts, and modern feminist perspectives on the rite. (Cross-listed in Liturgical Resources)

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USA
Parishes
Colorado: Cherry Hills Village, St George (Colorado)
Colorado: Colorado Springs, Good Shepherd (Colorado)
Colorado: Denver, St Thomas (Colorado)
Colorado: Denver, St Peter and St Mary (Colorado)
Idaho: Boise, St Stephen (Idaho)
Maine: Portland, St Peter (Maine)
Maine: Wilton, St Luke (Maine)
Maine: Yarmouth, St Bartholomew (Maine)
Missouri: Kirksville, Trinity (Missouri)
Missouri: St James, Trinity (Missouri)
Nebraska: Lincoln, St David (Nebraska)
Nebraska: Omaha, Church of the Resurrection (Nebraska)

Independent organisations
Anglican Communion Network. This organisation, founded in January 2004, aims 'be a united missionary movement of Anglicans in fellowship with global Anglicanism, making disciples who make disciples of Jesus Christ and planting churches that plant churches in North America and to the ends of the earth.' According to its website, the ACN represents or provides 'pastoral oversight for approximately 200,000 Christians in the Anglican tradition.'

Schools and Education
Herlong Cathedral School. Detroit, Michigan. School for children age 3 through grade 8, affiliated with the Diocese of Michigan.

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.

Canada: Fort St John, St Martin (Caledonia). Rector.

For move information see our Vacancies Centre.

Seeking a position? Scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies listings throughout the communion.

World
Dioceses
India: Diocese of South Kerala

Parishes
South Korea: Seoul, St Thomas (Seoul)

Worth Noting
Church Commissioners Report 2005: Released on 26 April 2006, the Church Commissioners Report for 2005 indicates a 19.1 percent return on the Church of England's investment during the last year. 'The Commissioners' total expenditure in 2005 was £166.1 million (£163.8 million in 2004). Total non-pensions expenditure, including support for ministry within dioceses and for the ministry of bishops and cathedrals, totalled £65.8 million in 2005 – an increase of £2.2 million on the previous year.

Do They Like Me?: United Methodist pastor James Howell writes in The Christian Century (Chicago) on the importance—or ultimate non-importance—of likeability in pastoral ministry.

A Sermon for Low Sunday: Retired cathedral and seminary dean Gary Kriss preaches on the differences between a parish and a congregation. 'Members of a parish come because it is their home. They come because they belong, because they want to be there, because they feel connected and want to be with and support one another—in faith and love, in wonder and expectation. If our goal and our commitment is to be a parish in that sense, this parish has a great future.'

Why the Church has been such a blessing: Ivan Hewett writes in The Telegraph on 'the muted and respectable spiritual uplift of the Anglican responses and canticles, which are still the staple musical fare of our cathedrals and parish churches'.


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

Letters to Anglicans Online
Have a read. Write a letter of your own to us for possible publication.

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 reflect '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.



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