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Week of 15 July 2007

Australia
New South Wales: Holt, St James (Canberra and Goulburn)
New South Wales: Five Dock, St Alban (Sydney)
New South Wales: Frenchs Forest, St Alban (Sydney)

Schools and education
The Lakes College. 'a joint venture of the Uniting and Anglican Churches and embraces a Christian philosophy that reflects the spiritual traditions and high educational standards of both churches'. Affiliated with the Diocese of Brisbane.

Book of Common Prayer
The 1662 (Canadian) BCP in Cree. 'Translated by Bishop John Horden (1828–1893) into the Cree dialect of the area around Moosonee, Ontario (Canada), this edition was first printed in 1889, and is now available as a image files on-line.' (Cross-listed in Canadian Resources.)

The Book of Common Prayer in Welsh. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England was used as the Prayer Book in Wales up until 1966, when trial liturgies were introduced, followed by a Prayer Book specific to the Church in Wales in 1984. Revision is still ongoing, and a new Communion service was authorized in 2004, in English and in Welsh. Additionally, the Church in Wales has the 2004 Ordinal online, both in English and in Welsh.

Book Reviews
In the Church Times, Richard Coles reviews A Wing and a Prayer: A Message of Faith and Hope by Katharine Jefferts Schori.

Also in the Church Times, Philip Welsh reviews Mission-shaped Parish: Traditional Church in a Changing World by Paul Bayes, Tim Sledge, John Holbrook, Mark Rylands and Martin Seeley.

Also in the Church Times, Martin Warner reviews three books on prayer.

Canada
Miscellaneous resources
The 1662 (Canadian) BCP in Cree. 'Translated by Bishop John Horden (1828–1893) into the Cree dialect of the area around Moosonee, Ontario (Canada), this edition was first printed in 1889, and is now available as a image files on-line.' (Cross-listed in Canadian Resources.)

Mothers' Union, Diocese of Fredericton. 'Membership is open to any person that has been baptized in the Trinity and accepts the Aim, Purpose and Objects of the Mothers' Union.'

Church History
Deacons, Deaconesses and a Proposed Adaptation, in Part, of the Third Order of S. Francis, or a Proposed Outer Order for Men and Women Living in the World, by the Author of "A Suggestion for the Times (1891). This rare book on new forms of lay and ordained ministry from the late nineteenth century is now available online.

England
Aller, St Andrews (Bath and Wells)
Angersleigh, St Michael (Bath and Wells)
Axbridge, St John the Baptist (Bath and Wells)
Burnham-on-Sea, St Andrew
Chester Square, St Michael (London)
Sudbury, All Saints [with Ballingdon and Brundon] (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
Tylers Green, St Margaret (Oxford)

Events
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.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
General Synod wraps up in England. Ugandan archbishop defines Anglicanism. US Episcopal Church appoints Covenant responders. Anglican priest forced out of Baghdad. Australian primate interviews in Murray Bridge. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Parishes
Colorado: Alamosa, St Thomas the Apostle (Colorado)
Colorado: South Fork, St Francis (Colorado)
Nevada: Las Vegas, African Christian Fellowship (Nevada)
Nevada: Las Vegas, St Matthew (Nevada)
Nevada: Reno, St Catherine of Siena (Nevada)
New Jersey: Asbury Park, Trinity Church (New Jersey) [Ed. One of the best websites we've seen.]
Ohio: Cincinnati (College Hill), Grace Church (Southern Ohio)
Virginia: St James Parish [Christ Church, Brandy Station; St Luke, Remington] (Virginia)

Conference centres, retreat places
Todd Hall. Unlike most retreat centres, this is the ministry of a single parish. Located in Columbia, Illinois.

Miscellaneous resources
Austin Street Centre. 'More than 400 men, women and children receive safe shelter here each night. More than 100 participate in our highly effective step-up programs, including substance abuse counseling, psychotherapies, and psycho-social counseling.' Located in Dallas, Texas, and administered by two Episcopal priests; attractive site.

Bishop's 5K for Kids. This annual event running event benefits the Bishop's Fund for Children of the Diocese of Connecticut, established in 1994 by Bishop Clarence Coleridge. It looks like a wonderful thing to export to other dioceses.

The Mausoleum and Columbarium in Flower Mound. This mausoleum and columbarium owned by the Diocese of Dallas 'welcomes all faiths. Orand Chapel which is adjacent to the Mausoleum and Columbarium is available for funerals and memorial services.'

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.

Seeking a position? Check our Vacancies Centre as well as scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.

Wales
Parishes
Bodelwyddan, St Margaret (St Asaph)
Benefice of Dinas and Penygraig with Williamstown [St Barnabas, Penygraig; Dinas Mission; St Illtyd, Williamstown] (Llandaff)
Llandyrnog, St Tyrnog (St Asaph)

Worth Noting
The Big Jump: National Public Radio (Washington DC) has this story about a group of Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli mayors who jumped together into a tributary of the Jordan River recently in order to raise awareness of a new cleanup campaign. A rabbi, imam and an Anglican priest also took part in the event.

Case for the defense: Carol Zaleski writes in the Christian Century (Chicago) on proofs for the existence of God. 'The project of amassing evidence in God's favor is [...] dismally unequal to the mystery that one means to represent. Yet it's reasonable to hope that we can supply reasons for our hope.'

The Facts about a Misreported Mass: Christopher Howse writes in the Telegraph (London). 'Most things that the press says about the Tridentine Mass are wrong.'

Thou Shalt Not Judge: The Guardian (London) provides this special excerpt from Stephen Bates's new book God's Own Country: Tales from the Bible Belt. 'Sitting in Alabama, where nine out of 10 inhabitants call themselves Christians, where half are Baptists and where just 1% of the population belong to non-Christian faiths, here was the judge telling me he was living in a godless country.'

Week of 8 July 2007

Associations and Guilds
North American Association for the Diaconate. 'We are an organization in the Anglican churches of North America: the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.'

Australia
South Australia: Gawler, St Francis (Adelaide)
South Australia: Adelaide, Parishes of the North East [Holy Redeemer, Ingle Farm; St Luke, Modbury; St Augustine, Para Hills] (Adelaide)

Book Reviews
Fighting Fundamentalism: A Spiritual Autobiography, by Douglas Bartles-Smith, is reviewed by David Edwards. 'It is a pity that the spiritual autobiography of a thoroughly admirable priest, a former Archdeacon of Southwark, has this title. It sounds negative and offensive, and it seems to be an admission of defeat, since one of the chapters is entitled “The Triumph of Fundamentalism”.... But the fact that he has put these feelings on paper implies some hope that one day the pendulum will swing again.'

God is Not Great: The Case Against Religion, by Christopher Hitchens, and The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, by Michael Martin, editor, are reviewed by Hugh Rayment-Pickard. 'If we want to understand atheism, The Cambridge Companion to Atheism — a collection of essays to guide students of philosophy and theology — is a good place to start. As Gavin Hyman’s essay says, Western atheism is a distinctively modern phenomenon, datable to the Enlightenment.' Quite the opposite is Hitchens who 'picks all the most excessive and disgraceful aspects of the world religions and lines them up as evidence that all religion is necessarily rotten to its core... It is also a lazy book that often has recourse to jibes rather than informed argument.'

Mad, Bad or Sad? A Christian Approach to Antisocial and Mental Disorder, by M. Dominic Beer and Nigel D. Pocock, is reviewed by Jenny Francis. This book could 'hardly be more timely '...though not an easy read, it 'is a badly needed study of how Christians might approach the problems of antisocial behaviour and mental illness in contemporary society. It is rooted in the Bible, well researched, carefully structured, timely, and to be commended.'

Canada
Resources
Diaconal Ministries of Canada. Useful site for Deacons, new or experienced.

England
Carlisle, St Cuthbert (Carlisle)
Holme Eden, St Paul (Carlisle)
Houghton, St John (Carlisle)
Kingmoor, St Peter (Carlisle)
Stanwix, St Michael with St Mark (Carlisle)
Warwick, St Leonard (Carlisle)
Wreay, St Mary (Carlisle)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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Mailing list, web forums
Anglican Music. 'Anglican-Music began as a forum for Anglican (including Episcopal) church musicians to post their lists of hymns, service settings, and choral and organ music and to share ideas for what is appropriate for each Sunday and holy day. It continues with this purpose but also now features much discussion of Anglican music spirituality, history, personalities, issues, trends, and philosophies.'

Musical Resources
British Institute of Organ Studies: 'To promote objective, scholarly research into the history of the organ and its music in all its aspects, and, in particular, into the organ and its music in Britain.'

National Pipe Organ Register: 'The NPOR contains details of 28,000 organs [in the UK] including 6,000 pictures.'

Sacred Music America: 'Sacred Music America provides access to the mainstream of western Christian music which has remained indestructible for the last 1,400 years. This site presents all major historical periods up to the present, while giving special attention to Gregorian chant, the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and hymn tunes before 1800. Most of the sound files were recorded live at parishes and congregations in the USA.' Specific Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran sections on the site.

Wicks Organ Company: A venerable US organ builder.

Wilhelmy: An American company, based in Virginia, that caters to pipe organ building, restoration, voicing and tuning. See company history for background.

News Centre
General Synod in England. British PM will no longer choose bishops. Confused Episcopal/Muslim priest suspended. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Preaching Resources
Desperate Preacher: Sermons, readings, forums, news.

Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons: The Reverend Bryan Findlayson's Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources (Australia) ' seeks to provide Christian resources for clergy and church leaders that are true to the scriptures, reformed and focused on the grace of God in Christ. The objectives are to provide: i] Short expository sermons and Bible studies on the set readings of the Revised Common Lectionary; ii] Biblically sound studies on doctrine, evangelism, apologetics, ethics... ; iii] Studies on the ritual and order of the Anglican church.'

Scotland
Arbroath, St Mary (Brechin)
Kirkwall, St Olaf (Aberdeen and Orkney)
Lerwick, St Magnus (Aberdeen and Orkney)

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USA
New Jersey: Phillipsburg, St Luke (Newark)

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.

Hong Kong: Clearwater Bay, Resurrection Church (Western Kowloon) Minister

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

Worth Noting
Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media. 'Media Matters for America' claims that news media exaggerate the importance of the religious right and ignore religious progressives.

People: Stephen Bates, in The Guardian, in a short bit reflects humorously on why preparation for confirmation thirty years ago might have propelled Tony Blair across the Tiber. (See the second paragraph, after royal baby announcement.)

Ruth Gledhill interviews Peter Akinola. In The Times (UK). Where else?

Signs from God: The Curious History of Church Marquees. Although it's US-centric, it's fun. In Slate.