Week
of 29 October 2006
Australia
New South Wales: Bateau Bay, St
Christopher & St Thomas of Canterbury (Newcastle)
New South Wales: Belmont, All
Saints (Newcastle)
New South Wales: Glen Innes, Trinity (Armidale)
New South Wales: Moree, Moree
Anglican Church (Armidale)
New South Wales: Southlakes, Southlakes
Parish (Newcastle)
New South Wales: Stockton, St
Paul (Newcastle)
New South Wales: Parish
of Woy Woy [St Luke, Woy Woy; St Andrew, Umina] (Newcastle)
Book
Reviews
Belief:
A Short History for Today, by G.R. Evans, reviewed in
the Church Times by John Saxbee. '"Christianity was
never meant to be complicated. It was never meant to be burdensome" Professor
Evans writes in her preface. In order to recapture this essential
simplicity, we need to understand how burdensome complexity
has overtaken Christian belief, and how we can find our way
to the core of Christianity by both revisiting and revising
the debates of times past.'
England
on Edge: Crisis and Revolution 1640-1642,
by David Cressy reviewed in the Church Times
by Jonathan Clark.
Religious
Identities in Henry VIII's England, by Peter
Marshall is reviewed in the Church Times by Alec
Ryrie. [Henry VIII] is comic enough at a safe distance,
perhaps: but this monster of egotism and do-it-yourself
theology also (not quite unwittingly) created an
international Christian denomination. And yet his
religion and the religious events of his reign are
still tangled in confusion, a tangle that affects
us all.
Shades
of Grey: Making Choices in Uncertainty, by Dudley
Coates, reviewed in the Church Times by Sarah Mullally.
'His theological foundation for the book is the incarnation:
God has chosen to immerse his "God-self" in
the complexities and uncertainty of human life; and
to follow Jesus is to do the same. [A British civil
servant] refers to this type of decision-making process
[where there are no right or wrong answers] as "making
choices in uncertainty", and sees it as a reflection
of the grey world we inhabit, where answers are never
black or white.'
Church
History
A new collection of documents by or about Algernon
Sidney Crapsey (1847-1927) includes extensive documentation
of his 1906 heresy trial.
The
Unseen World, by John Mason Neale (1853 edition). Just
in time for Halloween, Project Canterbury has digitised this
curious collection of conversations about the supernatural
by one of our tradition's greatest hymnographers and church
historians. Neale's 'aim is to set forth Christian views
on a point of popular belief which writers have generally
considered worthy of ridicule or pity, or at least susceptible
of a natural explanation'.
Episcopal
Elections or Announcements
Complete
The Reverend John Bauerschmidt was elected Bishop of
Tennessee on the 12th ballot. See tnbishopsearch.org for
more.
Letters
to Anglicans Online
Have a read. Write a letter of your own to
us for possible publication.
Liturgical
Resources
All
Hallows and the Day of the Dead: Full
Homely Divinity has this collection of background information
and resources for these upcoming holydays.
News
Centre
Pittsburgh Communion? Sydney Communion? Tennessee elects
a bishop, finally. China said more churchly than Western
Europe. US PB and PB-elect visit Canterbury. Adelaide synod
begins. Sydney synod ends. ABC speaks out on garb of Muslim
women. Sydney issues final ruling on ordination of women.
Sydney women leaving Anglican church for Uniting church.
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in the Communion
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USA
Connecticut: Bristol, St
John (Connecticut)
Nebraska: Blair, St Mary (Nebraska)
Nebraska: Papillion St
Martha (Nebraska)
New Mexico: Rio Rancho, St Francis (Rio Grande)
North Dakota: Dickinson, St
John (North Dakota)
Texas: El Paso, Pro
Cathedral Church of St Clement (Rio Grande)
Texas: El Paso, Wayfarers
Team Ministry [St Christopher, St Brendan] (Rio Grande)
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Wales
Parish
of Penmark with Porthkerry [St Mark, Penmark; St Curig,
Porthkerry; St Peter, Rhoose] (Llandaff)
Parish
of Tonyrefail [St David, Tonyrefail; St Alban; St Barnabas,
Gilfach Goch] (Llandaff)
Worth
Noting
A
Different Set of Questions: Is the press ready to cover
the first female presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
USA? We thought it timely to look again at a June
2006 article written by Diana Winston for the Revealer.
Let's
bring back the hymns that pack a punch: In the
Times (London), Catherine Fox asks where all the
old smiting and fighting songs have gone.
Obituary:
The Very Reverend Michael Mayne, aged 77, was Dean of
Westminster from 1986 to 1996, having previously spent
seven years in Cambridge as Vicar of Great St Mary's,
the university church; earlier he had been Head of Religious
Programmes Radio at the BBC.
Obituary:
The Reverend Arthur Peacocke made a significant contribution
to the understanding of the structure of DNA during his
early career as a scientist, though he became better
known, after his ordination as an Anglican priest, as
a leading advocate of the proposition that the antagonism
between science and religion is based on a fallacy.
Politically
dangerous: Archbishop Rowan Williams writes in
the Times (London) on the visibility of religious
symbols in public life. 'So the ideal of a society
where no visible public signs of religion would be
seen—no crosses around necks, no sidelocks,
turbans or veils—is a politically dangerous
one. It assumes that what comes first in society
is the central political “licensing authority”,
which has all the resource it needs to create a workable
public morality.'
Youth
resources
Beulah
Enterprises. A ministry of the Children's
Mission of St Paul and St James, New Haven, CT. 'We
offer for sale high quality, unique and innovative resources
to inspire imaginative
spiritual play, celebration, and learning. As we grow
we will provide financial support to the Children’s
Mission and job skills training and employment opportunities
for inner-city families'.
The
Sunday Paper. 'The Sunday Paper is informal,
whimsical, faithful to Scripture, and in dead earnest.
It is not condescending or cute. It helps children
to acquire a vocabulary of crucial Scriptural images,
and to relate the Gospel to the Old Testament, the
life of the Church, and their own lives.' 'The original
Sunday Paper appeals to intermediate through junior
high, and presents one lesson (usually the Gospel)
as a two-line cartoon; the other readings, and the
Psalm, are presented as single vignettes'. |
