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Week of 14 May 2006

Australia
Parishes
New South Wales: Arncliffe, St David (Sydney)
New South Wales: Balmain, St John (Sydney)
New South Wales: Blackheath Anglican Parish [St Aidan, Blackheath; St Peter, Mount Victoria; St John, Hartley; St George, Mount Wilson] (Sydney)
New South Wales: Camden, St John (Sydney)
New South Wales: Caringbah, St Philip (Sydney)
New South Wales: Parish of Castle Hill [St Paul, Castle Hill; Emmanuel Church, Glenhaven] (Sydney)
New South Wales: Cherrybrook, Cherrybrook Anglican Church (Sydney)

Schools and education
St Peter's Anglican College: Broulee, New South Wales. St Peter's Anglican College is planned to be a Kindergarten to Year 12 co-educational day school. In 2003 the College opened with students in classes Kindergarten to Year 7. An additional year group will be incorporated annually until the College progresses through to Year 12 in 2008. Affiliated with the Diocese of Canberra and Goulbourn.

Book Reviews
Saving Power: Theories of atonement and forms of the Church, by Peter Schmiechen reviewed in The Church Times by Nick Mercere.

Christ in Focus: Radical Christocentrism in Christian Theology, by Clive Marsh reviewed in The Church Times by George Pattison.

Books, Magazines, Authors
Pendleburys Bookshop: One of the largest dealers in secondhand theological books in the United Kingdom, they stock 25,000 secondhand and out-of-print titles in their North London premises.

Canada
British Columbia: Victoria (Lakehill), St Peter (British Columbia)
Ontario: Woodstock, Epiphany (Huron)

Church History
A Memoir of John Armstrong, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of Grahamstown, by T.T. Carter (1857). Tractarian parish priest T.T. Carter wrote this long biography of his friend John Armstrong (1813-1856), first Bishop of Grahamstown in what is now South Africa. Armstrong was a leader in promoting church penitentiaries in England before his ministry in Grahamstown.

Nellie Peters' Pocket Handkerchief and What It Saw, by Charles Todd Quintard (1907). C.T. Quintard (1824-1898) was the second Bishop of Tennessee. In this short story for children, he depicts an episode in American Anglican life in the Confederacy.

Several of John Mason Neale's children's novellas with church historical settings have been posted in searchable format by Project Canterbury. Neale (1818-1866) set Lucia's Marriage in Roman Jerusalem; The Bride of Ramcuttah depicts Portuguese Jesuit missionary life in India. He turned his attention to Georgian church history in The Lily of Tiflis, and to the era of the oecumenical councils in The Quay of the Dioscuri.

England
Parishes
Bramhall, St Michael and All Angels (Chester)
Epsom Common, Christ Church (Guildford)
North Holmwood, Dorking, St John the Evangelist (Guildford)
Southborne, Bournemouth, St Christopher (Winchester)
Parish of Upton St Leonards (Gloucester)

Yardley Wood, Birmingham, Christ Church (Birmingham)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
Seven Presiding Bishop Nominee Video Interviews are now available on the official Episcopal Church USA website. Low and high resolution versions are available in Windows Media format only. The 26th Presiding Bishop will be elected on 18 June 2006.

Events
USA: Diocese of Atlanta, 2007: Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta Centennial Commemoration
This site provides a wealth of resources on centennial celebrations for the Diocese of Atlanta, divided out of the Diocese of Georgia in 1907.

Ireland
United Parishes of Malahide, Portmarnock and St Doulagh (Dublin and Glendalough)

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

News Centre
South African bishops on violence against women. New Primate in New Zealand. General Synod in Ireland. Disturbing report on faith of England's youth. This time: four wise men. Politics in Pakistan. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

News Resources
Oasis California: News and updates from Oasis, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of California.

Titusonenine: This weblog provides a constant flow of news, commentary and information about Anglican politics from a perspective it describes as 'reasserting'; updated many times each day.

Odds and Ends
Ecumenical Pilgrimage: Reports from the Anglican Dean of Quebec during a four-month pilgrimage among the Armenian Orthodox of the Middle East (Antelias, Damascus, Aleppo and Jerusalem). Focus on the life, liturgy, and culture of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church.

The Holy Land Information pages: This informative website from the Anglican Communion Office contains statements and documents produced by Anglican organisations dealing firstly with the issues relating to Israel/Palestine and secondly with the relationship between Christians, particularly Anglicans, and Judaism.

Religious Orders
Worker Sisters/Brothers of the Holy Spirit: Worker Sisters of the Holy Spirit was founded in the United States in December, 1972. The Worker Brothers of the Holy Spirit originated in 1979 and the Community expanded to Canada. The Community was officially recognized by the Episcopal Church Standing Committee on Religious Orders of the House of Bishops in 1984.

Seasonal Resources
Rogation and Ascensiontide resources: Fully Homely Divinity has collected these helpful resources on Rogation and Ascenstiontide. 'The week of the Sixth Sunday of Easter is busy with processions and outdoor activities. The week begins with prayers and celebrations that focus on stewardship of creation and culminates in the great (but lately much-neglected) Feast of the Ascension of our Lord into heaven on the fortieth day of the Paschal Feast.'

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USA
Cathedrals
California: Los Angeles, Cathedral Center of St Paul, Los Angeles

Independent organisations
St Agnes House: Lexington, Kentucky. 'a non-profit, ecumenical mission established in 1975 through collaboration among the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, the Society of St Margaret and the University of Kentucky. Our mission is to create a healing environment for persons with chronic medical conditions. We provide low-cost housing for patients from rural Kentucky who are receiving therapies for cancer and other chronic medical conditions at Lexington area medical facilities'.

Miscellaneous resources
Bement Center: Charlton, Massachusetts. Camp and conference centre of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts.

Parishes
Alabama: Birmingham, Ascension (Alabama)
Alabama: Birmingham, St Alban (Alabama)
Arkansas: Jacksonville, St Stephen (Arkansas)
Arkansas: North Little Rock, St Luke (Arkansas)
California: Riverside, St George (California)
California: Rancho Santa Margarita, St John Chrysostom (Los Angeles)
Georgia: Elberton, St Alban (Atlanta)
Kentucky: Cynthiana, Church of the Advent (Lexington) [MIDI attack]
Kentucky: Gilbertsville, St Peter of the Lakes (Kentucky)
Kentucky: Lexington, St Martha (Lexington)
Massachusetts: Ipswich, Ascension Memorial (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Pepperell, St David (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: South Yarmouth, St David (Massachusetts)
Michigan: Detroit, Church of the Messiah (Michigan)
Michigan: Madison Heights, St Patrick (Michigan)
Michigan: Warren, St George (Michigan)
New Jersey: Clarksboro, St Peter (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Fair Haven, Holy Communion (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Lumberton, St Martin in the Fields (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Matawan, Trinity Church (Diocese)
New York: Niagara Falls, St Peter (Western New York)
Rhode Island: Charlestown, Church of the Holy Spirit (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island: Cranston, Ascension (Rhode Island)

Rhode Island: Warwick, St Mark (Rhode Island)

Vacancies Centre
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England: Sheffield, Christ Church. Youth development worker.
USA: Minnesota, St Clement. Rector.

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

World
South Korea: Seoul, St Christopher (Seoul)

Worth Noting
Cathedral Cleaner Uses Toothbrush and Light Touch: This recent story by Noah Adams of National Public Radio (USA) provides a wonderful profile of Edwin Cardenas, who began work as a janitor at Washington National Cathedral in 1990. He now works as a cleaning technician and preservation expert, tending to the cathedral's extensive fabric.

Challengingdavinci.com: This new website produced by the Diocese of Sydney challenges The DaVinci Code's presentation of Christian history. 'Has the Church been lying for 2000 years? [...] Has someone guarded this secret for centuries? Is this all news to Jesus? Find the truth.'

Crumbling churches pray for £925m: The Guardian reports that repairing Britain's crumbling churches will require £925 million. Let us pray, indeed.

Let us ignore the mantras of modernity and dance the sacred dances: Geoffrey Rowell writes in the Times (London) on processions and hymns. 'It is thin gruel for the soul if [these treasures are] discarded for the ephemeral emotion of passing fashion simply because [they are] old. Mantras of modernisation can too easily cut us off from deeply rooted spiritual wisdom.'


Week of 7 May 2006

Africa
College of the Transfiguration. Grahamstown, South Africa. 'We are a theological educational institution that provides an environment in which future priests are formed, informed and transformed, so as to be equipped to minister within church and society in Africa.' Formed in 1993 on the amalgamation of two earlier institutions, St Bede's and St Paul's. According to its website, this is the only residential college of the Church of the Province of South Africa.

Australia
Schools and education
Overnewton Anglican Community College: School for approximately 2400 students from preparatory level to Year 12 on two campuses in the northwest of Melbourne.

Book Reviews
God's Politics: Why the American Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, by Jim Wallis, reviewed in the Church Times by Anthony Howard
. 'This stimulating book advances a simple thesis: that in the United States the Republicans have hijacked religious faith, leaving the Democrats floundering, and muttering mantras about the necessary separation between Church and state.'

The SCM Press A-Z of Evangelical Theology, by Roger E. Olson, reviewed in the Church Times by Peter Forster. 'This substantial addition to the SCM A-Z series opens with a historical essay that traces the emergence of the modern phenomenon of Evangelicalism, and exhibits its multi-dimensional character... The focus is mainly upon the past 130 years in the United States, which gives the book a good analytical depth, but a limited scope.'

What Have They Done to the Bible? A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation, by John Sandys-Wunsch, reviewed in the Church Times by Robin Griffith-Jones. 'The author introduces the nature and concerns of biblical exegesis, and then takes us, in successive chapters, through the history of its interpretation in the Renaissance, the Baroque, the early Enlightenment, 1700-1750, and 1750-1800. He concentrates on the 17th and 18th centuries, appropriately enough for another harmless drudge who enjoys living (as he says) in the 18th century... briskly, with "a whiff of Gilbert and Sullivan whimsy" (and none the worse for that).'

Church History
An Historical Sketch of the Diocese of Saskatchewan of the Anglican Church of Canada, by W.F. Payton (1974). This centennial history of the Diocese of Saskatchewan follows in some detail the history of Anglicanism in western Canada.

The Lord's Supper in Relation to Christian Union, by William Augustus Muhlenberg (1873). This controversial paper by W.A. Muhlenberg (1796-1877, ECUSA feast day 8 April) advocated a high degree of intercommunion among protestant denominations in the United States.

A Letter to Miss Sellon, Superior of the Society of Sisters of Mercy, at Plymouth, by Henry Phillpotts (1852). This letter was addressed by the Bishop of Exeter to Priscilla Lydia Sellon (1821-1876), founder of the Devonport Sisters of Mercy and important restorer of the religious life in the Church of England. Here, Phillpotts (1778-1869) withdraws as visitor to the community in light of public objections to Tractarian practices advocated by Sellon and the sisters.

England
Ansley Parish [St Laurence, Church End; St Laurence, Ansley Village; St John, Ansley Common] (Coventry)
Broadheath, Altrincham, St Alban (Chester)
Cainscross, Stroud, St Matthew (Gloucester)
Parish of Cobham and Luddesdowne
[St Mary Magdalene, Cobham; St Peter and St Paul, Luddesdowne] (Rochester)
Hempstead, South Gillingham, All Saints (Rochester)
Parish of Tong and Holme [St James, Tong Village; St Christopher, Holme Wood; St John, Tong Street] (Bradford)
Warley, Brentwood, Christ Church (Chelmsford)

Events
Ireland: Diocese of Clogher, 2006: Macartan 1500
'In 2006 the Church of Ireland Diocese of Clogher celebrates the 1500 anniversary of our patron saint, Macartan. A full programme of events is planned throughout our diocese, covering areas of Monaghan, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, as well as small parts of Leitrim, Cavan and Donegal.' Attractive, informative site.

Canada: Ontario, Whitby, 6 June 2006: Fifth Annual Church Army in Canada Charity Golf Classic
This fundraising event will feature speaker Herbie Kuhn, announcer for the Toronto Raptors basketball team.

Ireland
Arva Group of Parishes [Arva, Carrigallen, Loch Gowna and Columbkille] (Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh)
Blessington Union of Parishes [St John, Manor Kilbride; St John, Ballymore Eustace; St Kevin, Hollywood; St Mary, Blessington] (Dublin and Glendalough)
Drumcree Parish Church (Armagh)
Kilternan Parish Church
(Dublin and Glendalough)
Lambeg Parish Church (Connor)
Monkstown Parish Church
(Dublin and Glendalough)
Rathmichael Parish Church (Dublin and Glendalough)
Sligo, Cathedral Group [St Anne, Knockarnea; Rosses Point; St John, Sligo] (Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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Liturgical Resources
Te Alaa Hakatulou Iaho Katoa, Te Veisili Talatala Ma Te Hakatulou Mea Kanakana Ite Kaitapu: This document includes Morning and Evening Prayer, the Catechism, private prayers and a service of Preparation for Holy Communion (including a translation of the Anima Christi) in Sikaiana, a language spoken by an isolated population of about 700 people on Stewart Island in the eastern Solomon Islands. This is believed to be the first online text in Sikaiana.

New Zealand
Albany Greenhithe Anglican Mission District (Auckland) [In partnership with local Methodists]

Resources
Loaves and Fishes/Glenfield Community Project: This project of the Glenfield Anglican/Methodist Community Church was founded in 1997 to serve low income persons of the North Shore area. It now includes a low-cost food shop, free bread distribution, food bank and drop-in centre.

News Centre
US bishops elected. Further conflict in Malawi. Fundraising for Church of England pensions. Canadian bishops speak out. Presentment and inhibition against Wisconsin priest. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
BCP526: 'The name of this website, BCP526, refers to the page number in the [American Episcopal Church's 1979] Book of Common Prayer from which most of us, the Episcopal clergy, took the ordination vows to the priesthood. The name seemed only fitting since the purpose of this site is to petition our fellow clergy, the ECUSA House of Bishops, to proceed according to the vows we all spoke at the very beginning of our priestly ministry.'

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USA
Arkansas: Fort Smith, St Bartholomew (Arkansas)
Arkansas: Jonesboro, St Mark (Arkansas)
Colorado: Dillon, St Francis (Colorado)
Colorado: Golden, St John Chrysostom (Colorado)
Colorado: Kremmling, Trinity Church (Colorado)
Colorado: Lakewood, St Joseph (Colorado)
Florida: Bradenton, St Mary Madgalene (Southwest Florida)
Florida: Port Salerno, St Luke (Southeast Florida)
Michigan: Grosse Ile, St James (Michigan)
Michigan: Saline, Holy Faith (Michigan) [Episcopal-Lutheran joint congregation]
Missouri: Farmington, All Saints (Missouri)
New Hampshire: Tamworth, St Andrew's-in-the-Valley (New Hampshire)
Rhode Island: Providence, Church of the Messiah (Rhode Island)
Rhode Island: Rumford, St Michael and Grace (Rhode Island)
South Dakota: Sioux Falls, Holy Apostles (South Dakota)

Vacancies Centre
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Australia: Sydney, St Alban. Associate Priest. For more information, see our Vacancies Centre.

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World
Singapore: Chapel of the Holy Spirit (Singapore)
Singapore: Marine Parade Christian Centre (Singapore)
Singapore: St James' Mandarin Congregation (Singapore)
South Korea: Ansan, Church of Our Saviour (Seoul)

Sungkonghoe Foodbank. Foodbank of the Anglican Church of Korea.

Worth Noting
Broad of church and broad of mind, by Ian Hislop: It may be comical, class-ridden and camp, but for our correspondent there is still comfort in the Church of England.

Church seeks spirituality of youth . . . and doesn't like what it finds, by Ruth Gledhill: From the Times (London) Gledhill writes that the 'Church of England has debunked the widely held view that young people are spiritual seekers on a journey to find transcendent truths to fill the "God-shaped hole" within them'.



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