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Week of 10 June 2007

Australia
Australian Capital Territory: Ashmont, Anglican Community of the Redeemer (Canberra and Goulburn)
Australian Capital Territory: Batemans Bay, Batemans Bay Anglican Church (Canberra and Goulburn)
Australian Capital Territory: Parish of Bungendore [St Philip, Bungendore; St Luke, Captains Flat; St Thomas, Carwoola; St Matthias, Currawang; St Mark, Hoskinstown; St John, Lake Bathurst; St Andrew, Tarago] (Canberra and Goulburn)


Education
Cathedral College. Wangaratta, Victoria. 'Independent, co-educational, Anglican, Prep to Year 12 (by 2008) school. The College offers high quality education at a reasonable cost to families in Wangaratta and surrounding regions'.

Book Reviews
Britannia, Europa and Christendom: British Christians and European Integration, by Philip Coupland, is reviewed by John Arnold in the Church Times (London).

Hagar, Sarah and their Children: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives, edited by Phyllis Trible and Letty M. Russell, is reviewed by Paula Gooder in the Church Times (London).

Church History
Correspondence between the Right Reverend the Bishop of Massachusetts and the Rectors of the Parish of the Advent Boston, A.D. 1845 to A.D. 1856 (1856). This extended exchange of letters chronicles one of the flashpoints of controversy over churchmanship in the nineteenth century American Episcopal Church. Candles, crosses, consciences and clothes are the usual suspects for disagreement.

England
Parishes
Fairfield, St Peter (Derby)
Golcar, St John (Wakefield)
Ilkeston, Holy Trinity (Derby)
King Cross, St Paul (Wakefield)
Pontefract, St Giles (Wakefield)
Staincross, St John the Evangelist (Wakefield)
Turnditch, All Saints (Derby)
Wardlow, Church of the Good Shepherd (Derby)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Complete
On 2 June 2007 the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness elected Canon Mark Strange as its new diocesan bishop. A service of consecration and installation is scheduled for October in Inverness. More information on Canon Strange is available here.

Japan
Parishes
Sapporo, St Margaret (Hokkaido)

Education
St Mary's College. Nagoya. Founded in 1898 by Canadian Anglican missionaries led by Margaret Young.

Letters
Have a read. Write a letter of your own to us for possible publication.

News Centre
Another episcopal patron for Inclusive Church. Conversation with retired Australia primate. Conflict continues at Oxford's Wycliffe. More dead bishops in USA. TIME for the archbishop. Church of England and the draft Covenant. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Religious Orders
Community of the St Mary the Virgin. 'Our Community was founded in 1848 by William John Butler, the then Vicar of Wantage. His desire was to form a committed community of Sisters combining both a life of prayer and holiness with a concern for the social needs of the time.' Based in Wantage, Oxford, UK.

Scotland
Parishes
Ballachulish, St John (Argyll and the Isles)

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USA
Parishes
Indiana: Muncie, Grace Church (Indianapolis)
New Hampshire: Londonderry, St Peter (New Hampshire)
Vermont: Chester, St Luke (Vermont)
Vermont: Northfield, St Mary (Vermont)
Vermont: Randolph, St John (Vermont)
Vermont: Wilmington, St Mary in the Mountains (Vermont)

Education
The Doane Stuart School. Albany, New York. Formed through the merger of Kenwood Academy (Roman Catholic) and St Agnes School (Anglican), this is a 'coeducational, Nursery through Grade 12 independent school'. It is a member of the National Association of Episcopal Schools.

Vacancies Centre
List a parish or diocesan opening for one month at AO — at no charge. What a bargain! The more you use our free service, the more useful it will become for all.

UK. Ivy House, St Denys Retreat Centre, Warminster, Wiltshire (Salisbury). Warden

For more information on this and other listings, see our Vacancies Centre. Also scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.

Youth Resources
A.W.E. Children's Ministries. The name of this diocesan children's ministry for the Diocese of Bethlehem stands for Advocacy, Worship and Education.

Youth Specialties. Headquartered in El Cajon, CA, the site is not ECUSA specific. In addition to programs, discussion, blogs, podcasts, their free resources include: Academic Bible Studies and Lessons, Clip Art, Curriculum Discussion Starters, Dramas Games, Illustrations, Jr. High Ministry Magazine, Programming, Rookies, Small Groups, Software, Spanish Materials, Spiritual Life, Student Resources, Videos, and Youth Worker Development. Their job bank for youth workers is primarily USA, but it's a great resource.

Worth Noting
Anglicanism in Crisis: TIME magazine features the Archbishop of Canterbury on the cover of its current African and European editions. His interview and other resources are available online.

Bill Moyers interviews Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori. "I think life is meant to be challenging. If we're going to use the fullness of the gifts that we've been given, it means we have to continue to be stretched, and I look forward to that." Watch the video and read the transcript.

Remembering Auden: Alan Jacobs writes in Books and Culture (Chicago). 'demanded difficult thought from himself; he resisted easy answers and comforting assurances. He explored forgotten resources from poetry's past: the medieval love for allegories of the inner life, the essayistic or letter-like meditations of the great Roman poet Horace.'


Week of 3 June 2007

Australia
Parishes
New South Wales: Strathfield, St Anne [with St Columba, Homebush West] (Sydney)

Book Reviews
Sarah Meyrick reviews 100 Ways to Get Your Church Noticed, by Neil Pugmire, with How to be Heard in a Noisy World: Church Publicity Made Easy, by Phil Creighton.

The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998, by Andrew Chandler, is reviewed by David Edwards.

The Price of Peace: Just War in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Charles Reed and David Ryall, is reviewed by Robin Gill.

Canada
Parishes
Saskatchewan: Prince Albert, St David (Saskatchewan)

England
Parishes
Bury, St John with St Mark (Manchester)
Chorlton cum Hardy, St Clement (Manchester)
Firswood, St Hilda (Manchester)
Newchurch, Rossendale, St Nicholas with St John and St Michael (Manchester)
Old Trafford, St Bride (Manchester)
Poughill, St Olaf (Truro)
South Bank, St John the Evangelist (York)
Stockport, St Martin (Manchester)
Stoke Climsland, Parish Church (Truro)
Swinton, Holy Rood Church (Manchester)
Tywardreath, St Andrew (Truro)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Pending
The Diocese of Rochester (USA) is seeking its next diocesan bishop. More information here.

Complete
On 2 June 2007 the Diocese of Niagara elected Michael Bird as its next diocesan bishop; his consecration is scheduled for 30 September 2007. More information is available here.

Japan
Resources
Nippon Seikokai Educational Union: This site provides a comprehensive directory of Japanese Anglican preschools and kindergartens. Site in Japanese only.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Tragic death of Michigan bishop in auto crash. Groundbreaking at igloo cathedral. Obituary: John Macquarrie. Is this the Pittsburgh Communion? Ugandan bishops to skip Lambeth Conference. Bishops in the Americas issue statement. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Religious Orders
Community of the Gospel. 'We [are] organized under the Canons of the Episcopal Church, but are open to any Christian man or woman who shares our mission. We are not an “Order” in the traditional sense, but do apply monastic principles to everyday living as we transform our lives.' Based in Wisconsin.

Episcopal Sisters of Charity. This religious order for women is based in the Diocese of West Virginia.

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USA
Parishes
Georgia: Cordele, Christ Church (Georgia)
Georgia: Moultrie, St John (Georgia)

Resources
The College for Bishops: 'The mission of the College for Bishops is to provide opportunities for formation and education that will strengthen bishops in their personal lives, as leaders of their diocese and in their vocation to God as a community of bishops in service to the Episcopal Church.'

Vacancies Centre
List a parish or diocesan opening for one month at AO — at no charge. What a bargain! The more you use our free service, the more useful it will become for all.

Canada: St Martin, Fort St John (Caledonia). Full-time rector

For more information on this and other listings, see our Vacancies Centre. You can also find links to vacancy pages on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.

Worth Noting
Church to impose 'rule book' of beliefs: In The Telegraph, by Jonathan Wynne-Jones.

Communion Matters: A Study Document for the Episcopal Church: On 1 June 2007 the Theology Committee of the US Episcopal Church released this 'document aimed at helping the bishops respond to the requests made to them by the Primates of the Anglican Communion'. Background information is available here.

Man v God: The Times (UK) notes that 'the polemical journalist Christopher Hitchens is more read in America than in his native UK – but that is about to change with his vitriolic new book attacking religion'.

Not faith, but fanaticism: Oxford University should end its support for the homophobic, misogynist evangelicals at Wycliffe. Giles Fraser, in The Telegraph.

 


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