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
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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'. |
