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Week of 2 July 2006

Book Reviews
Christianity in Iraq, by Suha Rassam, reviewed in the Church Times by John Brown.

A Future for Israel: Christian Arabs Share Their Stories, by Julia Fisher, reviewed in the Church Times by John Arnold.

Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature. by Nicholas Boyle, reviewed in the Church Times by Richard Harries

Canada
Alberta: Calgary, Holy Cross (Calgary)
Alberta: Calgary, St Augustine (Calgary)
Alberta: Lacombe, St Cyprian (Calgary)
Quebec: North Hatley, Parish of St Barnabas, North Hatley, and St John, Waterville (Quebec)

Church History
The Church of Melanesia 1849-1999, edited by Allan K. Davidson (1999). This PDF contains all of the 1999 Selwyn Lectures marking the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the Melanesian Mission.

Samuel Crowther: The Slave Boy Who Became Bishop of the Niger, by Jesse Page (c. 1892). Samuel Adjai Crowther (c. 1807-1891) was the first African Anglican bishop. This biography, written for children, follows his life and travels throughout what is now Nigeria.

The Velvet Cushion, by John William Cunningham (1817 edition). This wonderfully readable (and once very popular) novel tells the story of English church history from the viewpoint of a church cushion. John Cunningham (1780-1861) was Vicar of St Mary's, Harrow; Frances Trollope lampooned him in The Vicar of Wrexhill. The Velvet Cushion inspired A New Covering to the Velvet Cushion and The Legend of the Velvet Cushion.

Europe
Spain: Costa del Sol East [Fuengerola, Calahonda and Benalmádena] St Andrew (Diocese in Europe)
Spain: Menorca, Santa Margarita (Diocese in Europe)
Spain: Tenerife, Anglican Chaplaincy in Tenerife South (Diocese in Europe)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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Music Resources
The Anglican Singers, Amsterdam: This site, available in both Dutch and English, provides information on a choral group in the Netherlands dedicated to performing and recording English church music. Their CDs look particularly worthwhile.

Music at St Thomas of Canterbury, Brentwood: This English parish's extensive music programme has a dedicated website with information about concerts, five choirs and the parish organ and orchestra.

News Centre
Several US dioceses reject new Presiding Bishop. Global reactions and overreactions. Fringes angry, centre bruised. ABC comments on the GC. New gig for retired ABC. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Odds and Ends
Affirming-Laudianism.org.uk. Certainly not a normal AO listing; however, every now and then we come across a site that makes us laugh. Brought to the web by the same folks behind Frankly Unfriendly Catholics. (Cross-listed in Worth Noting)

Christ Alive!. This local television show is produced weekly by the video ministry of Christ Church, Warwick, New York.

Official Church Publications
The Bridge. Monthly newspapers of the Diocese of Southwark. Printed copies are available from all Southwark parish churches; online in html.

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USA
Florida: Laguna Beach, St Thomas by the Sea (Central Gulf Coast)
Maryland: Bel Air, Emmanuel (Maryland)
Maryland: Catonsville, Iglesia Episcopal de los Tres Santos Reyes (Maryland)
Maryland: Catonsville, St Timothy (Maryland)
Maryland: Glencoe, Immanuel (Maryland)
Maryland: Glyndon, St John (Maryland)
New York : Amenia Union, St Thomas (New York)
New York : Dover Plains, St James (New York)
Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh (Wilkinsburg), St Stephen (Pittsburgh)

Independent organisations
Episcopal Social Services: 'a non-sectarian agency helping New York's neediest reach their full potential'. Founded in 1831.

Episcopal Social Services at Venture House: Wichita, Kansas. 'For those in need, ESS programs provide food, education, employment services, case management and counseling.

Vacancies Centre
List your parish or diocesan openings in our Vacancies Centre for one month; renewable if needed. The more you use our free service, the more useful it will become for all.

Canada: Toronto (West Toronto), St John's Anglican Church (Toronto). Sunday School Coordinator
USA: New Mexico, St Francis. Organist

For more information on these and earlier listings, visit our Vancancies Centre.

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

World
St Paul's United Theological College. Limuru, Kenya. Established in 1903 in Mombasa by the Church Missionary Society. Since 1955, St Paul's has been a joint school for the Anglican Church of Kenya, the Presbyterian Church of East Africa and the Methodist Church of Kenya. Students responses to the Windsor Report are available online from the Anglican Communion website.

Worth Noting
Collected Papers Presented to the United Methodist-Episcopal Church Dialogue 2002-2006: This large PDF presents 13 papers on historical, doctrinal, disciplinary and ecclesiological matters considered in Methodist-Anglican discussions in the United States.

Affirming-Laudianism.org.uk. Certainly not a normal AO listing; however, every now and then we come across a site that makes us laugh. Brought to the web by the same folks behind Frankly Unfriendly Catholics. (Cross-listed in Odds and Ends)

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.'