Letters from 12
to 18 March 2007
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I come to your website every Sunday evening to see what the new
news is for the week. I read your opening column, always finding something new & different there. I appreciate that you're
a bicultural/bilingual site. Translated, that means I can tell that most of you are Brits, some of whom live in the US. The
language in your opening column is generally British English which differs somewhat from American English, as the expats are
probably at least subliminally aware.
I go then to the letters & feel cheated when there aren't enough
of them, ie, I read through in one - two letters. Then I go to the new this week, checking out most news stories. Sometimes
I'll check out the book reviews or newpaper articles or unusual translations put up on the website. I sometimes check out parish
websites that are featured, again, sometimes finding some that are really interesting & informative & some I wonder if anyone
ever updates them. Of course, I check other stuff as well.
As you can tell, yours is one of my favorite websites, up in my
favorites/bookmarks along with Ship-of-fools.com, my email logins & search engines. So keep up the good work & evenhandedness.
Katherine McEwen
St. Andrew's Episcopal
Seattle, Washington, USA
12 March 2007
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I always read the cover page, the letters, and the news centre.
When I have any time at all I read the all of the what's new section, and usually read anything under that relates to history
or book reviews.
For me, this page is wonderfully rich and informative -- provocative,
too. Thank you.
Judith Guttman
formerly Grace Church (of the "Grace Affair")
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
jguttman@wi.easterseals.com
12 March 2007
It doesn't matter what
you intend to achieve, it is that you do achieve something every week. You are one of the true seven wonders of the web just
keep doing what you do. I love the personal reflections of the weekly meditation on the opening page to all the details of the "What is new" section.
God bless you and thank you.
David Powell
St Mary's Kemptown brighton
Brighton and Hove, England, UK
bonabri@hotmail.co.uk
12 March 2007
I appreciate the hard work you put into this very useful web site.
I am a weekly visitor and value the important links attached to this site.
Perhaps the only suggestion I can offer for improvement is that
you write your commentary that all may read and fully comprehend your point of view. Of late you have done a much better job.
This week's is a good example of what I am talking about. Some times it is not very easy reading. It would also help if you
explain the graphics that are used.
May God continue to bless your efforts.
Lloyd Anthony
St. Joseph's Episcopal
Queens, New York, USA
antini_99@yahoo.com
18 March 2007
Not from the head, but from a huge committee
Regarding your remark that the Vision Statment of the Diocese of
Toronto "had sprung, apparently full grown, from a bishop's head." I was a youth memebr of the Synod that developed the statment
in 1990. Trust me, it would have been a lot less work had it actually come straight form the brain of any one individual. Instead,
we had a group of some 800+ individuals voting, phrase by phrase, for the statement. I'm not sure what other process would
have allowed the whole Diocese, bishops, clergy and laity, to develop the thing, but this was absolute agony! By the way, I
think it's a good statement, and actually reflects what we do here (unlike several such statements I've read from parishes
which rather appear to be wish lists).
Heather McCance
Parish of Sharon and Holland Landing
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
14 March 2007
Not mission but prayer
Given your editorial
this week, your readers may be interested in
the mission of the Sydney Diocese.
You once commended the mission of our Diocese, when our Archbishop
gave his first presidential address. Here was your commendation:
Our
own church has this
motto, but prefers a church 'prayer' over
a mission statement. Our
prayer expresses the kind of church we pray we will become.
We use this prayer as our intercessions once every two months.
May the Lord help all of us - individually and corporately, to become
increasingly intentional in the way we live and seek to promote the Gospel.
Mark Calder
St Andrew's Roseville
Roseville, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
mncalder@optushome.com.au
15 March 2007
College for female reverends?
Hi. My name is Florencia, I am a member of the Holy Cross Anglican
Episcopal church run by Reverend Leonel Ortez. I am a little new to the Anglican church but I've decided I want to become a
Reverend. I am still not sure what is the difference between the two churches, since I have been doing some reading and see
that there are differences, but howcome my church is both? I hope you can help me out with this, and picking a good college
for female reverends.
Florencia Quevedo
Holy Cross
Miami, Florida, USA
flore655@hotmail.com
13 March 2007
(Ed:
Dear Florencia, we'll be in touch early next week. Always
the best way to begin with a quest like yours to become a
priest is to talk to your own, the Reverend Leonel Ortez.
Generalmente en inglés utilizamos la palabra 'priest'
en vez de 'reverend'.)
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