Week
of 2 September 2007
Africa
Parishes
Nigeria: Ado-Ekiti, All
Saints (Ekiti)
Resources
Anglican Students' Fellowship
Obafemi Awolowo University: 'The fellowship changed [its]
name from Anglican Youth Fellowship to Angllican Students'
Fellowship in 1996 as part of ongoing changes in the mother
church and also to have a national identity.' Located in Ile-Ife,
Nigeria.
University
of Cape Town Anglican Students's Society: 'We
praise and worship together, to deepen our understanding
of the Christian Faith and to reach out to each other
and to others. A lot of social and spiritual events
take place during the ANSOC year.'
Australia
Schools and education
Brighton
Grammar School. Melbourne, Victoria. 'An Anglican private
school exclusively for boys, providing a broad, academically
based education from ELC to Year 12.'
Camberwell
Girls Grammar School. Canterbury, Victoria. Anglican
girls' school 'from prep through grade 12'.
Camberwell
Grammar School. Canterbury, Victoria. Anglican
boys' school established in 1886.
Caulfield
Grammar School. Five campuses in Australia and
China, as well as a virtual campus. 'Since its foundation
in 1881, Caulfield Grammar School has grown to become
one of Australia's most well known and influential
coeducational schools through its innovative approaches
to teaching and learning.'
Firbank
Grammar. Brighton, Victoria. Coeducational; early
learning through Year 12. Established in 1909 by the
Archbishop of Melbourne.
Korowa
Anglican Girls' School. Melbourne, Victoria. Established
in 1890. For girls from age three through Year 12.
Website includes sections in Chinese.
Lowther
Hall Anglican Grammar School. Essendon, Victoria.
'Lowther Hall is a school for girls from Kindergarten
to Year 12. The present enrolment is around 800, ensuring
a family size atmosphere which allows for both intimacy
and individual attention.'
Book
Reviews
The
Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an, by Jane Dammen
McAuliffe, editor. It is reviewed by Philip Lewis in the Church
Times. 'In
14 well crafted chapters, the story of the Qur’an moves
from context to text to textual history and its impact...
Two chapters, in particular, stand out. The first, by the
editor herself, offers an insightful analysis of how the developed
commentary tradition worked, as exemplified in the exegesis
of Surah 109 by a famous 12th-century Baghdad scholar, Ibn
al-Jawzi... The other .. is by a German scholar, Angelika
Neuwirth — “Structural, linguistic and literary
features”. This makes it clear that the Qur’an,
first and foremost, is not a book to study, but a text to
recite.'
The
Expansion of Evangelicalism: The age of Wilberforce,
More, Chalmers and Finney,
by John Wolffe. It's reviewed by William Whyte
in the Church Times. 'Wolffe’s book is a
self-consciously global history: one that deals
with the expansion of Evangelicalism in Australia
and the United States as well as in England and
Scotland... The book will be of value to anyone
interested in modern church history, as well as
to those who have just come across Wilberforce
and want to know what the fuss is about.'
In
Search of the Lost: The Death and Life of Seven
Peacemakers of the Melanesian Brotherhood,
by Richard Anthony Carter. It's reviewed by Leigh
Hatts, also in the Church Times. 'Fr Carter has
written an important account of the death of the
seven Brothers in the Solomon Islands. They were
murdered in 2003 by militants during a conflict
in which their church was fearless, and committed
to opposing the use of arms. It was the church
alone that was trusted with collecting and destroying
arms. Those who publicly surrendered guns were
sprinkled with holy water, and the rifles were
doused in the hope that they would rust even before
they were dropped into the sea.'
The
New Lion Handbook: The History of Christianity,
by Jonathan Hill. It is reviewed by Ian Bradley,
yet again in the Church Times. 'This handbook
represents a formidable achievement. In 550 closely
packed pages, it tells the story of Christianity
over the past 2000 years on a truly global scale...
The last chapter comes to an abrupt finish with
a description of the modern Ethiopian Church.
It could have done with some concluding observations
and reflections.'
Canada
Parishes
Alberta: Edmonton, St
Mary (Edmonton)
Church
History
Among
the Menabe; Or, Thirteen Months on the West Coast of Madagascar,
by George Herbert Smith (1896). This illustrated account of
an unsuccessful attempt at establishing an Anglican mission
on the western coast of Madagascar is by a missionary of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
England
Parishes
Grays
Thurrock Team Ministry [St Peter and St Paul, Grays Thurrock;
St Mary, Little Thurrock; St Clement, West Thurrock; All Saints,
Chatford Hundred] (Chelmsford)
Headland Benefice [St
Michael, Bempton; St Oswald, Flamborough; St Peter, Reighton;
St Leonard, Speeton] (York)
Huntington
Anglicans [All Saints, Huntington; St Andrew, Huntington] (York)
Londesborough Group [St Giles, Burnby; St Martin, Hayton;
St Mary, Huggate; All Saints, Londesborough; St James, Nunburnholme;
All Saints, Shiptonthorpe; St James, Water] (York)
Myland, St Michael (Chelmsford)
Northallerton
Parish [St Lawrence, Kirby Sigston; All Saints, Northallerton;
St James, Romanby] (York)
Theydon Garnon, All
Saints (Chelmsford)
Episcopal
Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
The Diocese of Chicago has announced the names of five
nominees for episcopal election. At large nominations
will be received until 11 September 2007 at 5 pm. The dedicated
bishop-search website has more information on this already
controversial election process.
Events
USA: Missouri, St Louis, 14-15 September 2007: Making
Disciples Conference
Biblical scholar Luke Timothy Johnson will speak on discipleship
in the New Testament.
USA:
Washington, Seattle, 21-25 October 2007: Orthodoxy:
Living Communion in Worship and Belief
The Fall 2007 Conference of Affirming Catholicism USA will
include confirmed speakers Randall Balmer, James Lemier and
Frederick Quinn.
Exchanges
Rector/incumbent of an Anglican parish in the Rocky Mountain
town of Jasper, Alberta in Canada is looking for
a two-Sunday priest exchange in England in spring
of 2008, preferably close to or in London. Contact
the Revd Dr Adela D. Torchia for
more information: atorchia at telus.net.
Ireland
Resources
Church's Ministry
of Healing in Ireland. 'Our time is mostly focused on
preaching, teaching and prayer ministry. We would see people
by appointment. Parish groups and Healer Prayer Unions exist
throughout the country. Please contact your local minister
or ring us if you need further information.'
Japan
Resources
Supplemental Data
on the Nippon Seikokai: This site provides Anglican links
and lectionary and historical resources in Japanese.
Letters
to Anglicans Online
Have
a read. Write a letter of your own to us for possible publication.
Liturgical
resources
A
New History of the Book of Common Prayer. Charles Wohlers
has digitized and annotated a 1910 edition of this classic
historical commentary of the Book of Common Prayer by Francis
Procter and Walter Howard Frere.
News
Centre
Kenya consecrates Americans as bishop; Uganda to follow. New
UK magazine launched for Christian girls. All this, and more,
in the News Centre.
Not
in the Communion
Province
of the Transfiguration - Anglican Rite: 'can be best summed
up as an small Anglican Rite Catholic Jurisdiction that shows
the unconditional love, compassion, mercy and charity within
our ministries, which embraces every human being regardless
of their state or condition in life for Jesus Christ said
in the Gospel of Matthew that we are to love our neighbor
as ourselves'.
Resources
Valley Forge Choir of Men and Boys: 'The Choir does not
normally sing Sunday morning services. The Choir is available
to sing traditional Choral Evensongs and concerts. They rehearse
at the Anglican Church of the Transfiguration in Phoenixville,
Pennsylvania, two days a week for the boys; one evening a
week for the men and teens.' It is affiliated with a church
that now serves as the cathedral for a group known as the
Diocese of the Holy Cross, formerly part of the Province of
Christ the King.
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USA
Parishes
Maine: Jefferson, St
Giles (Maine)
Massachusetts: Dartmouth, St
Peter (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Fall River, Church
of the Ascension (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Wellfleet, St
James Chapel (Massachusetts)
Massachusetts: Woburn, Trinity
Church (Massachusetts)
Michigan: Bay City, Trinity
Church (Eastern Michigan)
Michigan: Gladwin, St
Paul (Eastern Michigan)
Michigan: Marysville, All
Saints (Eastern Michigan)
Michigan: Midland, Holy
Family (Eastern Michigan)
Michigan: Owosso, Christ
Church (Eastern Michigan)
Conference
Centres, Retreat Places
Page Center: Camp
and conference centre of the Diocese of Northern Michigan.
Independent
organizations
National
Association of Episcopal Christian Communities. 'an inclusive
association that shares and communicates the fruits of the
Gospel, realized in community, with the church and the world.
Our vision is of a church, all of whose members realize the
fruits of the Gospel in community.'
Schools
and education
Whitaker School
of Theology. Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1954. 'Known
as the "School Without Walls", the school has taken
quality educational offerings to the people, right where they
live, throughout the diocese.'
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.
Vestments
Angel
Work Designs: 'Custom designed and embroidered vestments
and paraments by Anne Louise Gillilan. My great joy as an
artist is to produce works that have spiritual significance
for whom they are designed and add to the joy of worship.'
World
Resources
Church of South India Institute
of Technology. Located in Secunderabad.
Church
of South India Kanyakumari Medical Mission. 'an
organization functioning in Kanyakumari Diocese catering
to the medical needs of more than five hundred thousand
people living in various rural, and urban areas of
Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India'.
Diocesan
Missionary Prayer Band, India. 'In 1960, with
a call to do the gospel work among the hill-tribals
living in the Eastern Ghats of Tamilnadu, a few young
students of the Bible college, Bangarapet, organized
a prayer group.' It changed its named in 1979, and
is affiliated with the Church of South India's Diocese
of Kanyakumari.
Worth
Noting
Commitment
or Numbers: The Guardian (London) carries this article
by David Self. 'If the church prefers commitment to numbers,
that is its prerogative. If, on social issues, it wishes to
be out-of-step with public opinion, that is its decision.
If, as a result, it appears irrelevant, it must not be surprised
if it loses the perks of being part of the establishment.'
Jerusalem
the Golden: This is an undated, illustrated/illuminated
version of John Mason Neale's famous translation of
Bernard of Morlaix's hymn.
Lost
Opportunity: Joseph Neiman reflects in The Living
Church (Milwaukee) on the recent sale of the cathedral
of the Diocese of Western Michigan.
Young
Anglican Follows Vocation: The Anglican Journal
(Canada) carries this fine article by Henrieta Paukov
on a nun of the Sisterhood of St John the Divine who
will turn 30 this year. |
