Week
of 15 April 2007
Australia
Resources
Australian Anglican Diaconal Association. 'AADA serves as a point of contact, fellowship and motivation for deacons, deaconesses and licensed diaconal workers in the Anglican Church in Australia.'
Anglican Commission for the Environment. This initiative of the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn 'aims to promote Christian obligation to nurture and care for the environment'.
Book
Reviews
In Books and Culture Timothy
Larsen reviews two new books on Victorian painting and religion,
focusing on the astonishing new William Holman
Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné. 'A century from now, should the
world endure, these volumes from Yale will be on display in some museum.
A guide will speak reverently of them in hushed tones, conceding that
having all of our images stored electronically is an advance in many
ways, but lamenting that such physically beautiful objects as these are
no longer being created.'
John Pridmore reviews the Archbishop of Canterbury's new Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief. 'A series of talks the Archbishop gave in Canterbury Cathedral in the week before Easter 2005, the Archbishop writes accessibly about Christian belief, but he does not pretend that these are shallow waters'.
Steven Shakespeare reviews Trevor Greenfield's An Introduction to Radical Theology: The Death and Resurrection of God.
Richard Coles reviews Frank Senn's The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy.
Books, Reviews and Journals
Spirituality and Practice. A multifaith website on ways to practice spirituality in everyday life. Book, audio, and film reviews; ideas and links for 37 essential spiritual practices; e-courses; online sharing forums and practice circles; contemporary spiritual teacher profiles; inspirational quotes; video and audio clips; articles; daily celebrations; discussion guides; galleries and art meditations;
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Canada
Miscellaneous resources
Aboriginal Neighbours. This organization of the Diocese of British Columbia works to 'build bridges of respect and understanding between cultures through education and interaction' and to 'encourage clergy and laity to develop effective means of keeping Church members informed of the Church's continued support and encouragement of aboriginal peoples'.
Church
History
The
Canterbury Association (1848-1852): A
Study of Its Members' Connections,
by Michael Blain (2007) [PDF]. This extensive
directory of prominent members in the
Canterbury Association, an early New Zealand colonization
society sponsored by networks of friends
with strong High Church leanings, is
now available online. (Hard copies are
no longer for sale, and scarce as hens'
teeth.)
From Project
Canterbury and the Archives of the Diocese of New York comes an extensive
directory of material
by William Thomas Manning (1866-1949), tenth
bishop of New York. The documents now online flesh out Manning's opinions
and activities in connection with cathedral building, ecumenism, world
affairs and liturgical matters.
England
Parishes
Bishops Waltham, St Peter (Portsmouth)
Lye, Christ Church (Worcester)
Malvern, Holy Trinity (Worcester)
Malvern, St Andrew (Worcester)
Petersfield, St Peter (Portsmouth)
Purbrook, St John the Baptist (Portsmouth)
Rowlands Castle, St John (Portsmouth)
Southsea, St Jude (Portsmouth)
Stutton, St Peter (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
Rushmere, St Andrew (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
Wall Heath, Church of the Ascension (Worcester)
Wolverley, St John the Baptist (Worcester)
Miscellaneous resources
Distinctive Diaconate. 'an unofficial Church of England centre which serves to promote the diaconate as a distinct, full and equal order of the church's historic ministry. It concerns itself not only with the questions of a permanent diaconate but also with a better use of the transitional diaconate'.
International Volunteer Programme. This project of the Korean Anglican Community Centre in London 'works closely with the Church of England, the Anglican Church of Korea, Korean Social Workers Association, the British Social Workers Association, and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations' to facilitate care-giving ministry by Korean young people in Britain. (Site text mostly in Korean.)
Save Our Parsonages:
'Traditional rectories and vicarages are part of our ecclesiastical
heritage, just as much as churches, and they are also major resources
for the Church. They are focal points for parish and community life.
SOP's objectives are therefore based on the tripartite argument of
mission, community and heritage.'
Europe
Parishes
Italy: Assisi, Anglican Congregation (Diocese in Europe)
Letters
to Anglicans Online
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News
Centre
Action in Australia on child abuse. Combat in Colorado Springs. Charges dismissed
against Connecticut bishop. Florida breakaway parish can't keep building. Full
year delay in C of E computer update. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
Music Resources
Latinised Hymns: 'Mark Mortimer has taken more than 300 English hymns, including many old favourites and some less well know[n], and produced Latin versions of them in the same metres. They are therefore singable to the same tunes, at the same time as preserving the rhyme-schemes of the originals. He believes that what sounds good in English sounds even better in Latin.' See what you think of From Greenland's icy mountains or O God of earth and altar.
Scotland
Resources
Glasgow and Galloway Mothers Union. The MU has sixteen branches in this diocese.
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USA
Hawai'i: Molokai, Grace Church (Hawai'i)
Minnesota: Chatfield, St Matthew (Minnesota)
Minnesota: International Falls, Holy Trinity (Minnesota)
Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh (North Hills), Christ Church (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh, Church
of the Advent (Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania: Hazelwood, Good Shepherd (Pittsburgh)
Schools
and education
Holy Nativity School:
Honolulu, Hawai'i. Aims to provide 'children with preschool and kindergarten
experiences of high quality that will help them in their successful transition
from toddler to student'.
St
Andrew's Priory School: Honolulu, Hawai'i. Kindergarten through
grade 12 college preparatory curriculum. Founded in 1867 by Queen
Emma Kaleleonalani.
St
Clement's School:
Aina Haina, Oahu, Hawai'i. For children from age two through grade
six.
St
Francis High School: Louisville, Kentucky. 'coeducational, independent, interdenominational college preparatory high school' affiliated with the Diocese of Kentucky.
Vacancies
Centre
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Canada: St Matthew's Cathedral (Moosonee). Rector
Hong Kong: Resurrection Church (Western Kowloon). Minister
For more information about these and other vacancies, see our Vacancies Centre.
World
Resources
Bishop's College,
Kingstown. Founded in 1964 by the Bishop of the Windward Islands.
This secondary school is located in Kingstown, capitol of St Vincent
and the Grenadines.
Worth
Noting
Amazon organist: On the BBC Religion and Ethics programme last week, we heard this intriguing story about an expedition to the Bolivian rainforest requiring the services of an organist. Four English organists have volunteered. (Real Media format).
Iraqi Christian conference: Canon Andrew White, Anglican Vicar of Baghdad, speaks on the BBC Religion and Ethics programme about Christian life in Iraq today. (Real Media format).
The Pope and Islam: Jane Kramer writes in The New Yorker: 'Benedict wants to purify the Church, to make it more observant, obedient, and disciplined—more like the way he sees Islam.' |
