Anglicans Online
 News
 Resources
 Basics
 Worldwide Anglicanism    Anglican Dioceses and Parishes
Home News Centre A to Z Start Here The Anglican Communion Africa Australia Canada England
New this Week News Archives Events Anglicans Believe... In Full Communion Europe Ireland Japan New Zealand
Awards, Staff Newspapers Online B The Prayer Book Not in the Communion Scotland USA Wales World
Search Official Publications B The Bible B B B B B
This page last updated 24 September 2006
Anglicans Online last updated 20 August 2000

What's New This Week

ALL THE NEW URLS we receive each week are here. We list two (sometimes three) weeks’ worth, cycling the old ones off each week. As they disappear from this page, you'll find the links moved to their natural home categories in our resource pages.

If you can't find something that was once here, you can look in our archives or try the AO search engine. It searches our entire site and also many important official Anglican sites worldwide. If you still can't find it, please let us know.

If you would like your website listed here, please use this form to tell us about it.


Week of 24 September 2006

Africa
Walmer, St Saviour (Port Elizabeth)

Biblical Resources
Audio Bible: 'You can listen to the entire Bible on the Internet! You can also buy Audio Bible as commercial software for your Windows PC.'

Book Reviews
Abraham's Children: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conversation, by Norman Solomon, Richard Harries and Tim Winter, editors, is reviewed by Kenneth Cragg in the Church Times. 'For ten years the Bishop's House in Oxford was the venue for Bishop Harries' hospitality to an impressive group of 15 scholars from the three Semitic faiths, focusing on the figure of Abraham as a catalyst for a study of their mutuality and diversity. This volume is the fruit of their discourse.'

How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland, by Michelle P. Brown, is reviewed by Paul Cavill in the Church Times. 'Faith in a web of cultures long ago: Paul Cavill reflects on Christianity's arrival on these shores.'

Yes: A Positive Faith, by David L. Edwards, is reviewed by John Saxbee in the Church Times.

Canada
Parishes
British Columbia: Delta, St Cuthbert (New Westminster)

British Columbia: Vancouver, St Anselm (New Westminster)
British Columbia: Vancouver (West), St Francis-in-the-Wood (New Westminster)
British Columbia: Vanderhoof Regional Parish [Holy Trinity, Vanderhoof; St Patrick, Fort St James; St Wilfrid, Fraser Lake] (Caledonia)

Elections
Episcopal Church in the USA
New Jersey: The Reverend Mark Beckwith was elected the 10th Bishop of the Diocese of Newark at a Special Convention held on 23 September. His election came on the third ballot.

Tennessee: The Episcopate Committee of the Diocese of Tennessee lists their nominees for the 11th Bishop of Tennessee.

England
Axminster, St Mary the Virgin (Exeter)

Marldon and Berry Pomeroy Parishes [St John, Bridgetown; St Mary, Berry Pomeroy; Parish Church, Marldon] (Exeter)

Europe
Resources
Anglican.se: 'We are a group of Anglicans and Anglicans wantobe's who are working with this site.'

Exchange

Virginia -> Scotland for summer 2007
Would like to exchange for 2-3 weeks in mid-summer of 2007. Virginia Beach, Virginia is part of a 1.5 million metro population near historic Williamsburg and 3 hours south of Washington, DC. Two Sunday services for about 200 people; no weekday duties. Our home is located one half mile from church; 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Also would like to exchange automobiles. No smoking, no pets. If interested, email brandall@olddonation.org.

Ireland
Altnagelvin, Glendermott Parish (Derry and Raphoe)
Belfast, St Clement (Down and Dromore)
Belfast, Willowfield Parish Church (Down and Dromore)
Parish of Castlerock, Dunboe and Fermoyle [Christ Church, Castlerock; St Paul, Dunboe Articlave; Ascension, Fermoyle] (Derry and Raphoe)
Donaghadee, Donaghadee Parish Church (Down and Dromore)
Dundonald, St Elizabeth (Down and Dromore)
Dungiven and Bovevagh, St Eugenius (Derry and Raphoe)
Glencraig, Holy Trinity (Down and Dromore)
Holywood, St Philip and St James (Down and Dromore)
Inishmacsaint, St Ninnidh (Clogher)

Parishes of Killaney and Carryduff [St Andrew, Killaney; St Ignatius, Carryduff] (Down and Dromore)
Killyleagh, St John the Evangelist (Down and Dromore)
Newtownards, St Mark (Down and Dromore)

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

Music Resources
Michael Grimmitt: Download free sheet music by the composer, who has written for church worship services or collective worship in schools.

Young Person's Guide to the Organ: It might even be valuable to not-so-young people.

News Centre
More on the US IRS versus churches. New Tutu biography; interesting content. More detail on earlier New York bishops' meeting. New bishop in Newark. More process developing the Nigerian Communion. But, alas, religious riots in Nigeria destroy a cathedral there.

Support Anglicans Online
Shop: From AO T-shirts to mugs, you can find it in our shop. Your purchase supports Anglicans Online.
Donate:
 Give any amount you like via a secure online server.

Thanks
...to all who have helped us through their gifts. We are deeply grateful to those who allow their names to be listed and to those who choose to remain anonymous.

USA
West Virginia: Charleston, St Luke (West Virginia) [MIDI attack]
West Virginia: Clarksburg, Christ Church (West Virginia)
West Virginia: Shepherdstown, Trinity Church (West Virginia)
Wyoming: Jackson Hole, St John (Wyoming)
Wyoming: Riverton, St James (Wyoming)

Schools and education
Florida: Melbourne, Episcopal Day School. Pre-K through grade 12. [Ed: Images extremely large. Best with high-speed connection.]

Wyoming: Laramie, Canterbury House at the University of Wyoming.

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.

World
Malaysia: Sabah, St Patrick (Sabah)
Malaysia: Butterworth, Redeemer (Kuching)

Singapore: Chapel of Christ the King (Singapore) [warning: front page has MIDI attack]

Mexico:
Resources
Directory of Anglican churches in Mexico
: All churches are categorized by diocese, state, city. The roster also notes whether a congregation uses English.

Worth Noting
Appointment of new dean of Westminster Abbey: The Reverend Canon John Hall succeeds the Very Reverend Wesley Carr. Also see this story in The Guardian.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a key figure in South Africa's history. His story will now be told in a vast internet archive. By Nick Jackson, in The Independent.

Rector Elected as Newark's Episcopal Bishop; Gay Candidate Finishes 5th, headlines the New York Times.

Obituary: The Times (London) notes the death of the Right Reverend David Say, former Bishop of Rochester. 'He was physically strong and worked hard; able to speak at length in the House of Lords after midnight, between two full days in his diocese'.

Tea and punch: Vicars and parishioners come to blows at a farewell celebration. Nicola Woolcock tells all in The Times (London).

g
Week of 17 September 2006

Associations, Guilds
Society for the Propagation of Reformed Evangelical Anglican Doctrine: This website includes a long document prefaced with the following caveat by the Bishop of Shyira, John Rucyahana: 'This document is not written to compel or demand any action. Rather, we seek to clarify the state of the Anglican Communion and advise what actions we may need to take to defend the Anglican faith and promote the Gospel.'

Book Reviews
Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England 1500-1700, by Alexandra Walsham, reviewed by Arnold Hunt in the Church Times. Anglicans 'seem to have lived, for most of the time, on perfectly friendly terms with their popish and Nonconformist neighbours... The practical toleration granted to Catholics and Dissenters was, she suggests, the very reason why they were denounced with such ferocity.' Hunt complains that her insight is not 'applied more widely.
Explaining how tolerance can suddenly tip over into intolerance - how communities that have managed to live with religious difference can suddenly fracture, murderously and savagely, along religious lines - has never seemed more urgent than it does today.'

Death Redesigned: British Crematoria, History, Architecture and Landscape, by Hilary J. Grainger, and From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death, by Peter C. Jupp, are reviewed by Geoffrey Rowell in the Church Times. Grainger's is a 'fascinating and lavishly illustrated study of the architecture and landscape settings of the places at which more than 70 per cent of British people are bidden farewell.' Jupp considers 'the theological, practical, and pastoral questions for the Churches.' He notes in his conclusion '"disposal of the dead has become much more a matter of convenience . . . and modes of disposal have largely lost their theological significance."'

Political Economy and Christian Theology Since the Enlightenment: Essays in Intellectual History, by A. M. C. Waterman, reviewed in the Church Times by Peter Sedgwick. 'This is the definitive account of Christianity and early economic theory, and should be in every theological library in universities and colleges.'

Church History
AO's Cynthia McFarland transcribed, edited and introduced Bishop William White's An Essay on High-Church Principles, (first published in 2001). White (1748-1836) was the first Bishop of Pennsylvania, and he exercised a strong influence on the formation of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Journals of the Mashonaland Mission 1888 to 1892, by G.W.H. Knight-Bruce (1892). Knight-Bruce (1852-1896) led the formation of the Diocese of Mashonaland in what is now Zimbabwe.

Santa Cruz and the Reef Islands, by W.C. O'Ferrall (1908). O'Ferrall was missionary on Santa Cruz (Nukapu Island) from 1897-1904. In this attractively-illustrated account, he describes the progress of Anglican life in the decades after the martyrdom of Bishop J. C. Patteson in 1871.

England
Resources
New Wine: Equipping Churches to see Jesus' kingdom grow. 'Our vision is to see the nation changed through Christians and churches being filled with the Spirit, alive with the joy of knowing and worshipping Jesus Christ, living out his Word, and doing the works of the Kingdom of God.' They encourage the training of leaders in all ministries of the church with special emphasis on youth. What began in one parish outside London has 'spread not only to Scotland, Ireland and Wales, but to twenty countries in Scandinavia, Africa, North America, Western Europe, South East Asia and New Zealand.
'

Soul Sista. Soul Sista is a ministry for girls only, part of Soul Survivor. 'We believe that something special happens when we get together, ‘just the girls’. Whether its looking at issues that are particularly relevant to us, or more general stuff from a girly perspective, or simply just enjoying some time to ourselves we have seen God do amazing things when we get together in this way.' (Cross-listed in Youth resources.)

Soul Survivor. Begun by Mike Piklavachi (the Youth Worker at St Andrew's in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, UK under the Vicar, David Pytches, founder of New Wine) who wanted to have an event like New Wine dedicated to youth. Mike says: 'I wanted it to be evangelistic and a lot of fun but at the heart of it would be worship, teaching and ministry.' There is an online Soul Survivor Magazine that's current and interesting. (Cross-listed in Youth resources.)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
The Diocese of Newark in New Jersey, USA, will hold a special convention to elect the tenth Bishop of Newark on 23 September 2006. Information on this convention is available here.

Complete
The Diocese of South Carolina elected the Very Reverend Mark J. Lawrence as next bishop on the first ballot on 16 September 2006. Episcopal News Service has more information on Lawrence in this article, and the Diocese of South Carolina has its own announcement here. [Where do bishop-search websites, like this one for this election, go after the elections are complete?—Ed.]

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

Christian Education and Ministries
New Wine: Equipping Churches to see Jesus' kingdom grow. 'Our vision is to see the nation changed through Christians and churches being filled with the Spirit, alive with the joy of knowing and worshipping Jesus Christ, living out his Word, and doing the works of the Kingdom of God.' They encourage the training of leaders in all ministries of the church with special emphasis on youth. What began in one parish outside London has 'spread not only to Scotland, Ireland and Wales, but to twenty countries in Scandinavia, Africa, North America, Western Europe, South East Asia and New Zealand.'

News Centre
Nigerian Communion issues more statements. New bishop for South Carolina. Jesus in an empty beer glass. Former ABY is again former incumbent. Texas parish will buy building from diocese. Primatial oversight meeting ends without outcome. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Episcopal Orthodox Mission in Italy: This organization, which also calls itself the Anglican Mission in Italy and Missione Anglicana in Italia, 'is a canonical Foundation of the Diocese of Ruvuma in the Anglican Church of Tanzania within the Anglican Communion [...] under the direct authority and jurisdiction of the Rt. Revd. Maternus Dr. Kapinga Diocesan Bishop of Ruvuma to proclaim the Gospel and administer Sacraments, to Italian and/or african anglicans whom are members "in good standing" of the Diocese of Ruvuma. [...] Accordingly EOMI does not claim any Parallel or Overlapped canonical anglican jurisdiction in Italy or Europe. The EOMI recognizes in Italy only the spiritual authority and jurisdiction of the Diocese of Gibraltar (namely Diocese in Europe) of the Church of England.' [Frankly, we're just confused—Ed.]

Odds and Ends
Anglican Communion Legal Advisers Network: Established by resolution of the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Hong Kong, September 2002.

40 Days of Discernment: This website, which includes material from the Diocese of Virginia and two parishes in that diocese, 'is dedicated to helping Episcopal congregations and their clergy answer an important question: Can orthodox, biblically committed congregations continue to remain affiliated with The Episcopal Church in the U.S.; or has the time come to seek alternative affiliation with some other branch of Anglicanism?'

Support Anglicans Online
Shop: From AO T-shirts to mugs, you can find it in our shop. Your purchase supports Anglicans Online.
Donate:
 Give any amount you like via a secure online server.

Thanks
...to all who have helped us through their gifts. We are deeply grateful to those who allow their names to be listed and those who choose to remain anonymous.

USA
New York: Lake Luzerne, St Mary (Albany) [midi-attack]

Resources
ONE Episcopalian (TM): 'a grassroots partnership between The Episcopal Church and the ONE Campaign to rally Episcopalians – ONE by ONE – to the cause of ending extreme poverty in our world and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)'. This web resource is a project of the Episcopal Public Policy Network; it includes liturgical resources, material in Spanish, theological reflections, and further information on the Millennium Development Goals. [Although this site claims trademark status for the words ONE Episcopalian, we were not able to find an active trademark application or registration for this term by any US applicant.—Ed.]

Vocare. 'A young adult ministry [in ECUSA] that provides opportunities for spiritual renewal and discovery. The Vocare weekend is one filled with fun and games, as well as reflection and discussion all focusing on one's spiritual calling.' (Cross-listed in Youth Resources.)

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.

Worth Noting
The Electronic Collection Plate: Douglas LeBlanc writes in The Living Church (Milwaukee) on the phenomenon of electronic donations for church purposes. Anglicans Online, by the way, has its own electronic collection plate to help keep our computers running.

The Gift Outright: Dr Michael Poon and Mark Macdonald, Bishop of Alaska, engage in dialogue about 'our common future'. Macdonald writes: 'Though it may seem absurd or amazing or both, it appears, at least from the perspective of mainline church institutions that the Gospel is just now about to find its first real home in North America'.

Searching for the Garden of Eden: Bishop Geoffrey Rowell writes in the Times (London) on his experience of Christian life in Lake Nicaragua, where the influence of Ernesto Cardenal is quite strong.

The Results Are in: A full, interesting report on 2004/2005 statistics for the Church of England reveals some encouraging and surprising news. Average giving is up to the record level of £5 a week; the highest number of new clergy were ordained since 2002; the number of children and young people at services rose slightly; cathedral attendance is up; and the biggest surprise for us was reading that some 86 percent of people in England have attended a church or other place of worship in the last year. Confirmation numbers are down, but baptisms, marriages and funerals are about steady.

Youth Resources
Soul Sista. Soul Sista is a ministry for girls only, part of Soul Survivor. 'We believe that something special happens when we get together, ‘just the girls’. Whether its looking at issues that are particularly relevant to us, or more general stuff from a girly perspective, or simply just enjoying some time to ourselves we have seen God do amazing things when we get together in this way.' (Cross-listed in English resources.)

Soul Survivor. Begun by Mike Piklavachi (the Youth Worker at St Andrew's in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, UK under the Vicar, David Pytches, founder of New Wine) who wanted to have an event like New Wine dedicated to youth. Mike says: 'I wanted it to be evangelistic and a lot of fun but at the heart of it would be worship, teaching and ministry.' There is an online Soul Survivor Magazine that's current and interesting. (Cross-listed in English resources.)

Vocare. 'A young adult ministry [in ECUSA] that provides opportunities for spiritual renewal and discovery. The Vocare weekend is one filled with fun and games, as well as reflection and discussion all focusing on one's spiritual calling.' (Cross-listed in USA Resources.)



This web site is independent. It is not official in any way. Our editorial staff is private and unaffiliated. Please contact ao-editor@anglicansonline.org about information on this page. ©2007 Society of Archbishop Justus