Future and Current
USA: New York, Governors Island, Summer 2008: Folks
on the Island
Free outdoor concerts presented by Trinity Church, Wall Street and Governors Island Alliance on an island in New York Harbor.
Australia: Canberra, 27, 28, 29 August 2008: Third Australian National
University Missionary History Conference
'The theme for 2008 is the history of missionary language learning, particularly
in the 19th century. Participants are invited to share their knowledge of ways in which missionaries went about learning the languages
of the peoples among whom they worked. Papers on mission language policy in areas such as Curriculum, Examination, Translation, Romanization,
Publishing and related issues, are among the papers sought for this conference. An important strand will be identifying how individual
missionaries reported their language learning experiences. This is not a conference focussed on linguistics or related issues but upon
the practical issues of language learning in the Asia-Pacific region.' Direct inquiries to Dr Ian Welch, Convenor, ANU Missionary History
Conference, at ian.welch@anu.edu.au.
UK: 28 September 2008: Back
to Church Sunday
'On September 28th 2008 thousands of people will be inviting someone special back to church with them. People lose touch with church
for all sorts of reasons but millions would come back with an invitation. On Back to Church Sunday 2007, people in 2000 churches invited
and welcomed back 20,000 friends.'
USA: Washington DC, 3-4 October 2008: Confronting
the Past: Changing the Future
'2008 is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the international slave trade. [...] The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
will preside at a Service of Repentance that will take place at 10:30 A.M. Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the Washington
National Cathedral, Workshops and a Reception on October 3, from 1:00 – 6:00 PM.'
USA: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, 2008: Celebrate
250
'Celebrate 250 is an initiat[i]ve of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh celebrating with Pittsburgh
250: Imagine! A full-featured website celebrating 250 years of Anglican Roots and the Flowering of Christianity in Southwestern Pennsy[l]vania
is slated for launch in Fall of 2007.'
UK: 2008: Hope 2008
'Churches across the United Kingdom are constantly at work serving and communicating with 58 Million residents and many visitors to the
United Kingdom. 'Hope' proposes to support this work, by facilitating intensified, united, focused prayer and a year of activities,
communicating the Gospel through words and actions, creating a lasting legacy of both physical and spiritual change in the lives
of communities and individuals.'
England: Worcester College, Oxford, 6-8 April 2009: The Early Modern
Parish Church Conference
'This conference will provide a forum to assess the role and significance of the parish church in the early modern period. This interdisciplinary
conference will attract papers from art historians, architectural historians, legal historians, archaeologists, as well as historians
and ecclesiastical historians. Rather than a series of case studies of particular churches, it is hoped that this conference will provide
a better understanding of the evolution and importance of this religious building within communities across Europe during the confessional,
economic, political and social changes of the early modern period. A call for papers will be announced in Spring 2008 but for initial
expressions of interest and to receive further details about the conference, please contact Kathryn Johnson at kjohnson@brookes.ac.uk.
More information is available here and here.
Canada: Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: 2010
Celebration
'the 300th Anniversary of the first B.C.P. service held in Canada. The exact date was October 10th, 1710, at Port Royal in Annapolis
Royal. We also celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the opening of the Cathedral Church of All Saints, on September 10th., 1910. Our theme
is "A journey Just Begun" from the Common Praise song 'She Flies on." 2010 Anniversary events will take place during the
time leading up to the October 2010 celebration.'
Past events
Worldwide: 14 July 2008: A
Day of Celebration and Prayer
Monday 14 July marks the 175th anniversary of John Keble's Assize Sermon, marked by historians as the beginning of the Oxford Movement.
'you are warmly invited to join in an hour of silent prayer which is being held to mark the 175th anniversary of the Oxford Movement
and of the Catholic Revival in the Church of England.'
England: Canterbury, 16 July to 3 August 2008: Lambeth
Conference
'The chief aims of our time together are, first, that we become more confident in our Anglican identity, by deepening our awareness of
how we are responsible to and for each other; and second, that we grow in energy and enthusiasms for our task of leading the work of
mission in our Church.' |
