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Week of 25 June 2006

Australia
New South Wales: Rooty Hill, St Alban / Multicultural Bible Ministry (Sydney)

Miscellaneous resources
Ministry Education Commission of the Diocese of Brisbane. 'Aims to provide opportunities for the development of enthusiastic Anglicans passionate about their faith through high quality theological and spiritual education and training programs for all baptised persons for lay and ordained ministries across the Diocese of Brisbane'.

Book Reviews
The Church of Mary Tudor, edited by Eamon Duffy and David Loades, reviewed in the Church Times by Dr Alec Ryrie. 'This book’s main achievement is that it does not see Mary’s short reign as either a lost hope or a lost cause, but as a specific episode with causes and consequences. And ironies: the editors argue that it was Mary who saved episcopacy for the Church of England; for she made bishops seem indispensable. With this kind of approach, perhaps we can, at last, begin to study Mary I’s reign as history.'

In 'Going My Way' Garret Keizer reviews Barbara Brown Taylor's Leaving Church in the Books and Culture section of ChristianityToday.com. [If you get a pop up window, refresh your browser.]

The Lichtenthal Psalter and the Manuscript Patronage of the Bohun Family, by Lucy Freeman Sandler, reviewed in the Church Times by Pamela Tudor-Craig.

Church History
The Recognition of the Unitas Fratrum as an Old Episcopal Church, by J. Taylor Hamilton (1925). In the context of early Anglican-Moravian relations, this document gives details of the investigation by the English Parliament of the claim of the Moravian Church to be an 'Old Episcopal Church'.

England
Parishes
Ainsdale, St John (Liverpool)
Brighton, St Nicholas of Myra (Chichester) ['the ancient mother church of Brighton']
Dalton, St Michael (Liverpool)
Formby, Holy Trinity (Liverpool)
Great Sankey, St Mary (Liverpool)
Hindley Green, St John the Evangelist (Liverpool)
Huyton Quarry, St Gabriel (Liverpool)
Kirby Team Ministry [St Chad; St Martin, Southdene; St Mark, Northwood; St Andrew, Tower Hill] (Liverpool)
Liverpool (Allerton), All Hallows (Liverpool)

Maghull, St Peter (Liverpool)
Penketh, St Paul (Liverpool)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Complete
On 24 June 2006 the Venerable Derek Hoskin was elected as Bishop of Calgary on the second ballot. He will be consecrated as eighth bishop of the see on 29 September 2006 at the Cathedral Church of the redeemer in Calgary, Alberta. Ballot results, photographs and some other information can be found here.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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Liturgical Resources
The Armed Forces Prayer Book: Charles Wohlers has digitized this brief adaptation of the Book of Common Prayer, likely produced for members of the U.S. Armed forces during the Korean War.

News Centre
US Episcopal Church General Convention ends. ++Brisbane: 'it is our fault'. Kangaroo court judge recuses himself. Preparing for Church of England Synod. Elisabeth Murdoch's face to adorn church spire. Australian church tribunal free to consider female bishops. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

New Zealand
Auckland, St Mark (Auckland)

Not in the Communion
The Evangelical Anglo-Catholic Church: 'first started in 2000 under a different name, it was called the independent church of God, but the name changed in 2006 to the name we have now'. Based in Yorkshire.

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USA
Louisiana: Baton Rouge, St Margaret (Louisiana)
Tennessee: Clarksville, St John (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Millington, St Anne (West Tennessee)
Tennessee: Nashville, Advent (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Nashville, St Philip (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Somerville, St Thomas (West Tennessee)

Independent organisations
Anglican Common Cause Mid-South: This group of churches and organisations in Arkansas, Mississippi and western Tennessee describes itself as 'united in Biblical truth and striving to improve relationships with faithful Anglicans worldwide'.

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.

Hong Kong: St Andrew (Hong Kong & Macau). Associate minister
Canada Saskatchewan: Regina, All Saints (Qu'Appele). Incumbent.

For more information on these vacancies, see our Vacancies Centre.

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

Wales
Llantwit Major, The Rectorial Benefice of Llantwit Major (Llandaff)

World
Kenya: Diocese of Thika — http://thika.anglican.org

Tanzania: Diocese of Central Tanganyika — http://centraltanganyika.anglican.org

Worth Noting
75th General Convention legislative summary. Summary of final actions on legislation by the 75th General Convention, provided by the Diocese of Chicago. Colour poster, A3 size paper, Adobe Acrobat format.

The Church must not sway to the siren voice of postmodern culture. Geoffrey Rowell writes in the Times (London): 'Faithfulness to the faith uniquely revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and handed down in the living tradition of the Church, is what must be both taught and lived if there is to be a true and challenging witness to the cultured despisers of today.'


Week of 18 June 2006

Australia
Victoria: Bundoora, St Peter (Melbourne)

Book Reviews
The Bible After Babel: Historical criticism in a postmodern age, by John J. Collins, reviewed in the Church Times by John Goldingay.

Health Care and Christian Ethics, by Robin Gill, reviewed in the Church Times by David Atkinson.

Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics, by Albino Barrera, reviewed in the Church Times by Peter Day.

Canada
Nova Scotia: Stellarton, Christ Church (Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)

Church History
Christianity and History, by J. Neville Figgis (1905). This book by Anglican historian and theologian J.N. Figgis (1866-1919) encourages the wider study of Christianity and its impact on history. Figgis became a member of the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield in 1907.

Out of Great Tribulation, by Philip Nigel Warrington Strong (1947). This charge (undoubtedly one of the longest in history) to the Diocese of New Guinea is broken into three parts: Review, The Diocese in Retrospect, and Looking Forward. Strong surveys in painstaking detail the life of the church in Papua New Guinea during World War II, including its interactions with military government administration.

The Reunion Conference at Bonn 1875: A Personal Narrative, by William Stevens Perry (1876). W.S. Perry (1832-1898) was Bishop of Iowa when he visited the Bonn Reunion Conference of Old Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans in 1875. Fruitful discussions ensued, culminating in the establishment of full communion between Old Catholics and Anglicans in 1931.

Education and Ministries
eMinistry Network. A new distance education (though some may be held on the telephone) network providing practical, user-friendly classes led by experienced clergy and lay persons. A goal is 'to give local ministry leaders a way to share their expertise with people across the Church. We identify and enlist people doing great ministry, and connect them with people who want to learn from them.'

England
Whittington, Oswetry, St John the Baptist (Lichfield)

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

New Zealand
Levin Anglican Parish [St Mary, Levin; St John the Baptist, Ohau; St Aidan, Waitarere] (Wellington)

News Centre
Katharine Jefferts Schori elected US Presiding Bishop. Some other news, too, but nothing to top this. More in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
Community of Spice: A new site, partially still 'under construction', for clergy spouses be they wives or husbands. A quarterly newsletter is promised for an annual subscription rate of $17.00.

Parish Church Resources
bergrenDesign. 'We specialize in enhancing worship through the thoughtful and creative use of artwork and artistically created altar/sanctuary furnishings.'

Preaching Resources
The Lectionary / Te Maramataka 2006. [PDF download] Lectionary for Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia.

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USA
Louisiana: LaPlace, St Timothy (Louisiana)
Louisiana: Metairie, St Paul (Louisiana)
Tennessee: Chattanooga, St Thaddeus (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Chattanooga, Thankful Memorial (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Dayton, St Matthew (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Lookout Mountain, Good Shepherd (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Rugby, Christ Church (East Tennessee)
Tennessee: Seymour, St Paul (East Tennessee)

Independent organisations
Community of Spice: 'conceived as a medium to reach out to persons married to clergy. Frequently these persons are female, but more and more there are husbands and committed partners of clergy who find themselves in this unique and fascinating — as well as trying and isolating — way of life'.

Resources
Funding Future Leaders: A National Endowment for Episcopal Seminarians: 'an initiative of The Society for the Increase of the Ministry, will raise funds to provide needs-based scholarships to students at 11 Episcopal seminaries'.

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.

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

Wales
Holyhead, St Cybi (Bangor)
Parishes of Valley, Bryngwran and Caergeiliog (Bangor)

Resources
Bangor Diocese Mothers Union: a partially bilingual site for this largest Anglican women's organisation. Founded in Bangor in 1891.

Worth Noting
Letter tells tales of Narnia: When a little girl wrote to CS Lewis asking him for an explanation of the Chronicles of Narnia, she never expected to get a reply.

Nothing is served by avoiding these hard questions: Cardinal Walter Kasper addresses the recent Church of England Bishops' meeting. The Church of England's decision on the consecration of women to the episcopate 'will be of fundamental significance for relations between us in the future'.

"Where things stand now - a resource for newbies and oldbies": An article in the blog Political Spaghetti uses Bishop John Bryson Chane's op ed piece in the Washington Post, The Gospel of Intolerance, as a starting point for a well documented article on the AAC and Archbishop Peter Akinola's recent public endorsement of the Nigeria's proposed legislation making gay and lesbian marriage a crime.



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