Week
of 23 September 2007
Africa
Resources
Nets for Life Africa:
'promotes an integrated prevention model that focuses on building community
awareness about malaria, educating and training people to use effective
preventive methods and accurate treatments for malaria, and advocating
for better access to drug therapies that save lives'. Implemented by
Episcopal Relief and Development and Christian Aid.
Australia
Resources
Anglicare Canberra and Goulburn:
This site includes information about Anglicare Youth and Family Services,
Anglican Retirement Community Services and Anglicare Community Services
in the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
Book
Reviews
In the
Church Times, Philip
Welsh reviews two books on the priesthood:
John Pritchard's The Life and Work of a Priest, and George R.
Sumner's Being Salt:
A Theology of an Ordered Church.
God’s
Own Country: Tales from the Bible Belt,
by Stephen Bates, is reviewed by Harriet Baber, also in the Church
Times. 'Why are Americans different? Arguably, because, whereas
Europeans are sensitive to the constraints of a social order built
on class, Americans’ great
fear is of disorder and attacks on their way of life. Virtually
all white Americans regard themselves as middle-class, and a substantial
number are convinced that their tenuous hold on the Good Life is
threatened by an unsalvageable criminal underclass, by terrorists
out to do damage, and, above all, by the chaos within that threatens
to break out if religious values and practices are eroded.'
In the Church
Times, Andrew Davison reviews Christianity:
A Guide for the Perplexed, by Keith Ward. 'This
Guide is an enthusiastic presentation of liberal Christian belief.
This is a rarer genre than we might think, often confused with the
rehearsal of doubts or with attacks upon other approaches to the faith.
This book is neither. Nor is it philosophically anguished. He wants
to square the faith with science, history, and biblical scholarship — the
old concerns of the liberal — not with contemporary
philosophies.'
Also in
the Church Times, Peter Forster reviews Studies
on Ancient Christianity, by Henry Chadwick. '[I]t
is part of the genius of this master historian that one often feels
transported to the world that he is describing.'
Canada
Deaneries
Ontario: Parkdale Deanery [seven churches] (Toronto)
Ontario: Thunder Bay Deanery [22
churches] (Algoma)
Church
History
Thomas
Patrick Hughes, Missionary to British
India: The Class Ceiling, by Elizabeth
Hughes Clark (2002) T.P. Hughes (1838-1911)
served as a CMS missionary/linguist in
places now included severally in India,
Pakistan and Afghanistan. This essay
by a relative examines the role of class
in his career. [Adobe Acrobat format]
England
Deaneries
West Barnet Deanery [12 parishes] (Birmingham)
Woodbridge Deanery [35 parishes] (St
Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
Worthing Deanery [17 parishes] (Chichester)
Resources
Bishop Woodford House:
Ely, Cambridgeshire. Retreat and conference centre of the Diocese of
Ely.
Hong
Kong
Resources
St Christopher's Home. 'the
largest non-governmental organization in Hong Kong providing small
group home service for children who cannot receive adequate family
care'. Founded in 1935 by Bishop R. O. Hall; site in Chinese and English.
Japan
Parishes
Nagoya, St Mark (Chubu) [Site
in English]
Tokyo (Asakusa), St John (Tokyo)
Tokyo (Shinjuku), St Barnabas (Tokyo)
Tokyo, St Peter (Tokyo)
Letters
Have
a read. Write a letter of your own to
us for possible publication.
News
Centre
US House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans. (When something actually
happens, we'll tell you). US Internal Revenue Service ends investigation
of sermon. US bishop plans to swim the Tiber. Stephen Bates quits; replaced
by Muslim woman. Pro-Mugabe Bishop of Harare to form own province. All
this, and more, in the News Centre.
Not
in the Communion
St Bede's Anglican Catholic
Theological College: Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada. 'a 'virtual college', established in 2001 to serve the needs
of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada in the academic and pastoral
training of men for the ordained ministry; to provide ongoing post-ordination
training and programs for those already ordained; and to offer theological
education to lay persons who are members of the Anglican Catholic Church
of Canada but not candidates for ordination.'
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USA
Parishes
California: Calistoga, St Luke (Northern California)
California: Chico, St John (Northern California)
California: Elk Grove, St Mary (Northern California)
California: Gardena, Holy Communion (Los
Angeles)
California: Paradise, St Nicholas (Northern California)
California: Sacramento, St Paul (Northern California)
Florida: Miami, St Matthew (Southeast Florida)
Louisiana: New Orleans, Church of All Souls (Louisiana)
Maryland: Buckeystown, Gathered by Christ Church (Maryland)
Maryland: Eastport, St
Luke (Maryland)
Maryland: Port Republic, Christ
Church (Maryland)
Resources
Episcopal Urban Intern Program:
'calls young adults to live out their faith and serve those in need
in the greater Los Angeles community'.
Schools
and Education
Ascension
Episcopal School. Houston, Texas. Coeducational, for students
aged ten months through grade five.
Holy
Trinity Episcopal School. Houston, Texas. Coeducational, for
students from age three through grade eight; a high school division
will be added soon. Founded in 1994.
St George's Episcopal
School.
San Antonio, Texas. Coeducational, for students from age four through
grade eight.
St
Mark's Episcopal Academy. Cocoa Village, Florida. Coeducational,
for students from age three through grade six.
Sweetwater Episcopal
Academy. Longwood, Florida. Coeducational,
for students from pre-kindergarten through grade five.
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.
USA: (North Dakota) 'Missionary Minded,
Adventure Desiring, Men and Women'
For
more information on this and other listings, see our Vacancies
Centre. Also scan
vacancy pages on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.
Wales
Parishes
Benefice of Dolgellau [St Mark, Brithdir; St Paul, Bryncoedifor; St Mary,
Dolgellau; St Illtyd, Llanelltyd; St Machreth, Llanfachreth] (Bangor)
Newport, Christ Church (Monmouth)
World
Parishes
South Korea: Kijang, Kijang Anglican Church (Pusan)
Resources
Church of North India Evaluation
Commission. 'The Evaluation Commission shall evaluate all aspects
of life, mission and ministry, work and growth, witness and service
of the Church of North India from the local congregation to Synod
level for last thirty five years of its existence.' Founded in
2005.
Derbyshire
Churches and the Church of North India Partnership. 'The Object
of the Project is to help the world Church come alive for people
in all the Partner Churches in terms of culture, education, mission,
ecumenism, theology and liturgy, primarily through the inter change
of communication and the facilitation of mutual visits. The project
shall not be directly involved with funding of specific programmes
in India.'
Thompson
Women's Training Institute. Cuttack, Orissa, India. Founded as
a Baptist missionary institution, this school is now managed by the
Diocese of Cuttack in the Church of North India.
Worth
Noting
Anglicans
Already Breaking Up: The New York Times carries this Associated
Press story on recent developments. 'As Episcopal leaders consider
barring more gays from becoming bishops to prevent an Anglican schism,
the world Anglican family is already dying by a thousand cuts.'
The
Bells that Make Cockneys: Christopher Howse writes in the Telegraph
(London) on the 'great bell called Bowbell' within whose sound all
true Cockneys are born.
The
Divine Compassion has steel as well as serenity: Geoffrey Rowell writes in the
Times (London) on compassion in Buddhism and in Christianity.
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