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Week of 30 September 2007

Africa
Resources
Peterhouse School. Marondera, Zimbabwe. Founded in 1955 as a boarding school for boys, Peterhouse now has two associated schools: Springvale House (preparatory for boys and girls) and Peterhouse Girls' (for girls, mostly boarding). Extensive website.

Australia
Deaneries
Queensland: Deanery of Brisbane West [eight parishes] (Brisbane)

Resources
Social Responsibilities Commisssion, Anglican Province of Western Australia. 'Matters are referred to the Commission by the Synod the Anglican Church in Western Australia, by the Archbishop of Perth and the Assistant Bishops, by the Diocesan Council, and by parishes and individuals.'

Storm Retirement Village. Taree, New South Wales. 'a residential aged care facility, [...] a ministry of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle'.

Book Reviews
In the Church Times, Martyn Percy reviews The Sociology of Religion, by Grace Davie.

Also in the Church Times, John Saxbee reviews John Leslie's Immortality Defended.

Yet again in the Church Times, John Madeley reviews two books on economics and globalization.

Canada
Parishes
Ontario: Oshawa, St Peter (Toronto)

England
Deaneries
Alstonfield Deanery [21 churches] (Lichfield)
Elham Deanery [23 churches] (Canterbury)
Fosse Deanery [31 churches] (Coventry)
Kerrier Deanery [16 churches] (Truro)

Parishes
Rickerscote, St Peter (Lichfield)

Resources
Additional Curates Society. 'The Additional Curates Society was founded on 12th July 1837 by Joshua Watson. We rejoice in 170 years of helping to provide priests to work in poor and populous parishes and of fostering and encouraging vocations to the Sacred Priesthood.'

Hong Kong
Resources
St James Settlement. 'St. James Settlement is a multi social service agency which provides high quality comprehensive services to meet the diverse needs of our society, to enable the individuals to help themselves and to help others, and to build an integrated and harmonious community.' Founded in 1949.

Japan
Parishes
Tokyo (Shinagawa), Sanko Church [Three Light] (Tokyo)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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New Zealand
Resources
RUIA: 'the online community for the rangatahi leaders of Te Pihopatanga o Aotearoa (the Maori Anglican Church) to come together to connect, grow and worship'.

Te Mara: 'the official Rangatahi Ministry School of Te Pihopatanga o Aotearoa (the Maori Anglican Church)'.

News Centre
About the US House of Bishops meeting. Green light for women bishops in Australia. US conservative groups meet in Pittsburgh. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Anglican Catholic Church, Diocese of the United Kingdom: 'In 1992 the Diocese of the United Kingdom was formally established after the Church of England broke with catholic faith and tradition by admitting women to the priesthood. Our presence in the United Kingdom is still small.'

Parish Resources
Australian Bell. [Australia] 'Australian Bell was incorporated in 1998 in order to undertake the Federation Bell commission. Australian Bell uses the best technologies available to expand the possibilities for the design of bells, tuned percussion instruments and musical sculptures.' You'll find a good deal of history, including European and Indian bells, and new technologies.

Church Specialties: "The New England Bellmen". [USA] Restores primarily Mcneely bells. 'The Duffy family of CHURCH SPECIALITIES, INC. believes that church bells and tower bells are an enduring musical voice connecting generations across time. Whether upgrading a bronze bell carillon or restoring a country church bell, Church Specialities has encouraged the use of bells while honoring and preserving their historic character..'

Royal Eijsbouts. [Netherlands]. 'The world's largest bellfoundry and supplier of cast bells, carillons, swinging bells, clocks, and bell- and clock towers.

The Sound of Bells. [UK] A website 'devoted to an investigation into the sound and tuning of church bells.' You'll find Wanaval, free software you can download. It provides 'new results and insights both into how bells produce the sound they do, and the factors affecting the quality or timbre of a bell sound.' The site is rich in information about bells and their sounds.

Religious Orders
First Order Brothers of the Society of Saint Francis in Aotearoa New Zealand: 'We are involved in the contemporary world, seeking to promote unity and reconciliation and in caring for the marginalised. We are committed to the spiritual search in the Christian tradition and seek to follow the way of St Francis of Assisi in humility, love and joy.'

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USA
Deaneries
Massachusetts: Alewife Deanery [15 churches] (Massachusetts)
New York: Archdeaconry of Queens [34 churches] (Long Island)

Parishes
California: Beaumont, St Stephen (Los Angeles)
California: La Canada/Flintridge, St George (Los Angeles)
California: Laguna Niguel, Faith Church (Los Angeles)
California: Rio Vita, St Brigid (Northern California)
California: Rohnert Park, Holy Family (Northern California)
California: Santa Maria, St Peter (Los Angeles)
New Jersey: Elizabeth, St Elizabeth (New Jersey)

Schools and Education
Abbie Loveland Tuller School. Tucson, Arizona. Coeducational, kindergarten through grade 12; a mission of the Sisters of the Order of the Teachers of the Children of God.

Ascension School. Lafayette, Louisiana. Coeducational, pre-kindergarten through grade eleven.

St Andrew's Episcopal School. Fort Pierce, Florida. Coeducational, pre-kindergarten through grade eight.

St Mark's Cathedral School. Shreveport, Louisiana. Coeducational, pre-kindergarten through grade eight.

Trinity Preparatory School. Winter Park, Florida. Coeducational, 'college preparatory day school for grades 6-12'.

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: Florida: Cantonment (Central Gulf Coast) Interim Rector

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
Gwersyllt, Holy Trinity (St Asaph)
Meliden, St Melyd (St Asaph)

World
Resources
Theological College of Lanka: Pilimatalawa, Sri Lanka. Founded in 1963 by the 'Anglican Church, the Methodist Church and the Baptist Church'. Today the Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of Lanka) also belongs to the federated body served by this institution.

Worth Noting
Appellate Tribunal determination on Women Bishops: 'The Anglican Church [of Australia]'s highest legal authority, the Appellate Tribunal, has cleared the way for the consecration of women as diocesan bishops across Australia.' The full report is available online in Adobe Acrobat format here.

The Episcopal Church at Its Best: The Living Church (Milwaukee) carries this story on a diocesan consecration that was 'a refreshing mixture of appropriate pageantry, the kind of personal familiarity one normally finds at a wedding rehearsal dinner, and a hopeful grasping of closeness among all present'.

Praise Hymns: Rupert Christiansen in The Telegraph (London) reflects on his selection in Once More with Feeling: A Book of Classic Hymns and Carols, which, he comments, is 'inevitably personal and partial, but I hope not wildly eccentric. I guess that my taste is typical enough: I'm middle-aged and come from the warm reasonable heart of middle England'. Are his favourites yours?

Review of the Permanent Private Halls associated with the University of Oxford: This report is available online in Adobe Acrobat format here; it responds to various concerns about the administration of Wycliffe Hall, a permanent private hall of Oxford University.

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
Warley Deanery [12 parishes] (Birmingham)
West Barnet Deanery [11 parishes] (London)
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.