Week of 8 April 2007
Australia
Parishes
Victoria: Parish of Hamilton [Christ Church, Hamilton; St Mark, Cavendish; St Mary,
Dunkeld; St Peter, Glenthompson; All Saints, Penshurst] (Ballarat)
Resources
Sydney Diocesan Registry and Archives: 'The Sydney Diocesan Archives provides
information storage and retrieval services to the staff of the Archbishop’s Office, the Sydney Diocesan Secretariat, Anglican parishes
and churches, and Anglican organisations, within the Diocese of Sydney.' The Diocesan Registry section of this site is secure, so we
are not sure what it is.
Book Reviews
Martyn Percy reviews Science, Religion and the Meaning of Life,
by Mark Vernon. With a delicate blend of deft coolness and fervour, Mark Vernon argues the case for "Christian agnosticism":
a positive engagement with the complexity of philosophy, science, modernity, and religious belief, which passionately restates the value
of a more temperate grasp of knowledge.
Nicholas Holtam reviews Is
Religion Dangerous? by Keith Ward. Despite Ward's hanging the book on refuting
Dawkins, 'this book is a well-written Christian apologetic with passages that take off brilliantly.'
John Pridmore reviews Adults
as Children: Images of Childhood in the Ancient World and the New Testament, by James M. M. Francis.
Lavinia Byrne reviews Mother Teresa:
Saint or celebrity?, by Gëzim Alpion who explores whether or not Mother Teresa engaged with the media and manipulated
it, and 'argues that while she "hated the media per se . . . she never ceased using every medium of mass communication. In
her own words: 'the press make people aware of the poor and that is worth any sacrifice on my part.'"
Canada
Ontario: Ashton, Christ Church (Ottawa)
Ontario: Aylmer, Christ Church (Ottawa)
Ontario: Nepean, St Richard (Ottawa)
Ontario: Ottawa (Cumberland Village), St Mark (Ottawa)
Ontario: Ottawa, Church of the
Resurrection (Ottawa)
Ontario: Pembroke, Holy Trinity (Ottawa)
Ontario: Richmond, St John the Baptist (Ottawa)
Ontario: Toronto, St Margaret (Toronto)
Québec: Parish
of Northern Pontiac [St George, Campbell's Bay; St James, Otter Lake; Holy Trinity, Danford Lake; St George, Thorne Centre; St James,
Wright/Gracefield; Christ Church, Maniwaki] (Ottawa)
Church History
The Christian
Jubilee, by John McVickar (1851). This sermon by John McVickar (1787-1868) is accompanied by correspondence between the Archbishop
of Canterbury and religious authorities in New York. Historians point to it as one of the earliest printed uses of the term 'Anglican
Communion'; it was preached and published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary celebrations for the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Cuddesdon
College 1854-1904: A Record and Memorial (1904). This illustrated memorial volume is part of a new, enlarged directory on material
related to the history of Cuddesdon College, an English theological college.
French-language resources on Anglicanism.
This new directory of French-language Anglican historical material includes bibliographic information as well as external links and
a variety of sermons and other documents.
England
Parishes
Barnby Dun, St Peter and St Paul (Sheffield)
Bassingbourn, St Peter and St Paul (Ely)
Brampton, St Mary Magdalene (Ely)
Burgess Hill, St Edward the Confessor (Chichester)
Cinder Hill, Christ Church (Southwell and Nottingham)
Conisbrough, St Peter (Sheffield)
Douglas, All Saints (Sodor and Man)
Parish of Great Snaith [Holy Trinity, Cowick; St John the Baptist, Heck; St Paul, Hensall;
St John the Baptist, Pollington-cum-Balne; St Laurence, Snaith] (Sheffield)
Little Paxton, St James (Ely)
Oughtibridge, Church of the Ascension (Sheffield)
Sheffield (Netherthorpe), St Stephen (Sheffield)
Thetford Team Ministry [St Cuthbert, Thetford; Cloverfield Community Church; St Ethelbert, East Wretham; All Saints, Croxton; St
Andrew, Kilverstone] (Norwich)
Treeton, St Helen (Sheffield)
Walpole, St Peter (Ely)
Wisbech, St
Augustine (Ely)
Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
The Diocese of El Camino Real in California has announced the names of four nominees for its next bishop. The
Episcopal Search and Transition section of the diocesan website has profiles, timelines and more information.
Events
USA: Virginia, Jamestown, 24-27 June: Legacies and Promise: 400 Years of Episcopal History
This historical conference sponsored by the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, National Episcopal Historians and Archivists,
and the Episcopal Women's History Project offers an impressive programme of papers and activities.
Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Easter attendance up significantly in Australia. Church and State in the UK. Cathedral parish membership increased in C of E. Augsburg
arrives at Canada's Anglican Bookstore. Dean of St Albans in the news again. Anglican bishop elected president of Latin American
council. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
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USA
Parishes
Alabama: Cullman, Grace Church (Alabama)
Alabama: Sheffield, Grace Church (Alabama)
California: Watsonville, All Saints (El Camino Real)
Hawai'i: Pa'auilo, St
Columba (Hawai'i)
Kansas: Abilene, St John (Kansas)
Kansas: Kinsley, Holy Nativity (Western Kansas)
Kansas: Medicine Lodge, St Mark (Western Kansas)
Maine: Cape Neddick, St Peter by the Sea (Maine) [Summer chapel]
Pennsylvania: Shippensburg, St Andrew (Central Pennsylvania)
Utah: Price, Ascension - St
Matthew (Utah) [Lutheran-Episcopal joint congregation]
West Virginia: Morgantown, St Thomas à Becket (West Virginia)
Vacancies Centre
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Australia: New South Wales, Gosford Parish (Newcastle).
Vicar
Canada: Alberta, Christ Church (Calgary). Minister of Congregational Growth & Development
Hong Kong: St Andrew (Western Kowloon). Shatin Anglican Church Hong Kong - Minister-in-charge
United States: North Carolina, Durham, St Philip (North Carolina). Rector
For more information on these and other vacancies, see our Vacancies Centre.
Seeking a position? Scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites with vacancies
listings throughout the communion.
Worth Noting
Ancient Easters caught in stone: Christopher
Howse writes in the Telegraph (London) on Easter sepulchers in English churches.
On
Easter morning a new order broke into the world: Geoffrey Rowell writes in the Times (London).
St
Hilda of Whitby: BBC Radio 4's In Our Time programme focused this week on St Hilda of Whitby, seventh-century English
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