Future and Current
USA: New York, Vestal, 22-27 June 2008: Finger
Lakes Conference: Endings and Beginnings
'Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, General Lecturer, will lead participants through the process of celebration, reunion, and closure at the
final presentation and gathering of the wonderful community that, for the past 70 years, has been known as Finger Lakes Conference.'
UK: Chichester, 23-25 June 2008: Art,
Politics and Church: Celebrating George Bell
'In 2008 the 50th Anniversary of the death of George Kennedy Allen Bell will be commemorated in various ways in Chichester and elsewhere.
This conference is being organised to celebrate his memory; it will be hosted by the University of Chichester and Chichester Cathedral.' Bell was
a pioneering ecumenist and church leader who lived from 1883-1958.
USA: Minnesota, Minneapolis, 23-26 June 2008: Vision and Vitality: Ordained
Ministry in the 21st Century
'Confirmed speakers include the Right Reverend Sean W. Rowe, Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania and the Right Reverend James E. Waggoner,
Bishop of Spokane. In addition representatives from the Episcopal Church Center and the Church Pension Fund will lead workshops and make
presentations for the conference participants.' This is the 38th annual conference of the National Network
of Episcopal Clergy Associations.
USA: Oregon, Portland, 18-20, 23-27 June 2008: Summer
Seminars
'This year the Center [for Spiritual Development at Trinity Cathedral, Portland] offers two Summer Seminars, back-to-back: a three-day
seminar with Martin Marty and Peter Marty and a week-long seminar on Jesus and Christian Formation today with Marcus Borg and John Dominic
Crossan.'
Canada: Quebec, Montreal, 25-29 June 2008: Biennial
Anglican Lutheran Worship Conference
The next biennial Worship Conference of the Lutheran and Anglican Churches of Canada will take place in Montreal. Watch the dedicated
conference website for more information.
United Kingdom: Hoddesden, 8-11 July 2008: Saving
the Soul of Anglicanism: The Nature and Future of the Anglican Communion
The Modern Churchpeople's Union's 2008 conference will feature speeches by leaders from Botswana, England, Ireland and the United States.
England: Durham, 9 July 2008: English
Cathedral Music: The Long Nineteenth Century to the Present
'This study day will consider the English cathedral music tradition from the long nineteenth century to the present, especially explorations
of its qualities as a musical tradition and its unique place in both national and religious identity. The term 'English Cathedral music'
embraces music performed by all heirs to the tradition, including college chapel choirs and other choral ensembles, both here and abroad,
that come within its influence.' We wish we could attend.
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.
Canada: Quebec, Montebello, 27 July to 3 August 2008: 48th
Annual Montreal Boys Choir Course
'The director of the course this year will be John Scott, organist and Master of the Choir at St Thomas Church, New York. The course
includes an intensive week of preparing music while staying at the comfortable facilities of the Sedburgh School in Montebello, Quebec,
preparing for final services sung on Sunday at Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal.'
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.
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
USA: Maryland, Baltimore, 5-8 June 2008: Everyone
Everywhere
'Everyone, Everywhere is a conference for parishes, dioceses, individuals, and groups active in the global mission of The Episcopal Church.
The event is for people committed to building and maintaining companion relationships with our brothers and sisters in Christ around
the world.' |
