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Week of 28 October 2007

Africa
Dioceses
South Africa: Diocese of George: http://george.anglican.org

Australia
Parishes
Australian Capital Territory: Evatt, Ginninderra, St Paul (Canberra and Goulburn)
Queensland: Parish of Kenmore-Brookfield [Holy Spirit, Kenmore; Good Shepherd, Brookfield] (Brisbane)

Book Reviews
The Beginning of Women’s Ministry: The Revival of the Deaconess in the Nineteenth-Century Church of England (Church of England Record Society), edited Henrietta Blackmore, is reviewed by Michael Wheeler. 'Henrietta Blackmore has laboured effectively among the archives of the Community of St Andrew and a variety of diocesan and local record offices, and offers edited versions of a range of documents associated with the beginnings of the movement, in which Bishops (later Archbishops) Tait and Davidson played leading supportive parts.'

Leslie Francis reviews The Hybrid Church in the City: Third Space Thinking, by Christopher Richard Baker [look inside the book], with Crying Out for a Polycentric Church: Christ Centred and Culturally Focused, by Joe Hasler.

A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church, by Calvin R. Stapert, is reviewed by Sally Harper. [You can also look inside the book.]

Canada
Parishes
Saskatchewan: Moose Jaw, St Aidan (Qu'Appelle)

Church History
Mission to Kurdistan in 1842 (Published 1850-1851). This serialised account follows the progress of an early Anglican mission to Kurdish areas of what are now Turkey and Iraq.

Strengthened with Might. A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Calcutta, on the Occasion of the Consecration of the First Bishop of Dornakal, by Edward Sell (1912). This sermon was preached at the consecration of the first Indian Anglican bishop, Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah (1874-1945).

England
Parishes
East Wickham, St Michael (Southwark)
Lee, St Mildred (Southwark)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Complete
On October 20007 the Diocese of Maine elected the Rev'd Canon Stephen Lane as Coadjutor Bishop. More information on the bishop-search process, which resulted in election on the first ballot, is available here.

Events
Australia: New South Wales, Chatswood, 23-24 November 2007: Out of the Salt Shaker and into the World
Salt Shaker Conference with Rebecca Manley Pippert. 'This is a conference for church leaders, leadership teams and members of congregations who are keen to be equipped and used by God in sharing His story.' A leaflet about this event is available in Adobe Acrobat format here.

Japan
Resources
Brotherhood of St Andrew in Japan. National branch of this Anglican men's organization.

Olympia. Anglican social welfare organization founded in 1950; affiliated with the Diocese of Kobe.

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

Music Resources
The Church Music Web Site: Supplier of CDs of Anglican organ hymn accompaniments and pieces for all church occasions, played by John Keys, Director of Music of St Mary's Church, Nottingham, England.

New Zealand
Resources
The Selwyn Foundation Group: 'The aged care arm of the Anglican Social Services for the Diocese of Auckland, providing residential care for the elderly of all religious beliefs, culture and ethnicity'.

News Centre
US Episcopal Church responds to Draft Covenant. Australians form support group for opponents of women bishops. US dioceses making progress towards a split. Retired English deans question increased power for bishops. Australian bishop tangles with Cardinal Pell. Australia to publish clergy infidelity 'shame list'. Epistle from Rowan to the Floridians. Ndungane denounces proposed covenant. More from Central Africa on rogue bishops. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Christian Episcopal Church: 'A traditional Anglican jurisdiction, committed to Holy Scriptures, and dedicated to worshipping Jesus Christ in the traditional Anglican Way. The XnEC is comprised of parishes located in the United States (Diocese of Seattle), Canada (Diocese of Richmond), and is affiliated with parishes in the Cayman Islands.' Appears to have a connection to the Diocese of Fort Worth, in whose cathedral a recent consecration was held.

Preaching Resources
Irenik: A preaching podcast by seminarians in the Diocese of Newwestminster, Canada. 'We are a group of Anglican seminary students on the road to Anglican ordination who preach weekly podcasts based on the revised common lectionary. Occasionally we have guest preachers from around the diocese. Our goal is to be voices in an age of internet, and to explore the medium of the sermon as a catalyst for theological engagement and Anglican renewal.'

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USA
Cathedrals
New Jersey: Trenton, Trinity Cathedral, Diocese of New Jersey

Parishes
Arizona: Phoenix, St Luke at the Mountain (Arizona)
Minnesota: Fergus Falls, St James (Minnesota)
New Jersey: Beach Haven, Holy Innocents (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Belford, St Clement (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Glassboro, St Thomas (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Penns Grove, Our Merciful Saviour (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Plainfield, St Mark (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Somerville, St John (New Jersey)
New Jersey: Trenton, St Michael (New Jersey)
Wisconsin: Bayfield, Christ Church (Eau Claire)

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.

United States: St Mark's Episcopal Church (Washington), Associate/Assistant Rector

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
Church's historic home in the City: Michael Byrne and G. R. Bush write in the Times (London) on St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London. 'A parish without residents or Sunday services provokes envy in other clergy and puzzlement in lay people. Why should such a parish survive?'

People and Places - Voices of the CofE: 'A joint Church of England and Premier Christian Radio production, People and Places provides an opportunity to meet some of the people who make the Church of England what it is today.' Individual stories can be downloaded as podcasts.

A Small-town Episcopal Church Carries On, Unruffled: Peter Steinfels writes in the New York Times on Christ Church, Deposit, New York. 'Is this small-town congregation affected by the conflicts roiling worldwide Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church in the United States over the 2003 consecration in New Hampshire of a gay bishop living with his male partner and the issue of same-sex unions?'

Week of 21 October 2007

Africa
Resources
Anglican Information Archive: 'a network acting as a free conduit for news and information related to the Anglican Diocese of Lake Malawi, and the Province of Central Africa. It is organised by an international team of those who know and love Africa and Malawi well. We reserve the right to reflect on the news as we receive it for the benefit of our worldwide audience.'

Australia
Parishes
Queensland: Mackay and District Anglicans [Holy Trinity, Mackay; St Ambrose, North Mackay; St Charles, West Mackay] (North Queensland)

Book Reviews
All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century by Arthur Peacocke (Philip Clayton, editor) is reviewed by Jeremy Craddock. [See contents and more] 'Arthur Peacocke’s last book, written when he knew he was dying. In a 50-page essay, he seeks to distil his thinking over many years; then come ten responses, of about ten pages each, by other theologians.'

Adam Ford reviews three books: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins [See contents and more], Christ of the Everyday by Jeff Astley, and The Big Questions by Jonathan Hill.
‘Collins discovered the digital elegance of DNA. Uncovering this most re-markable of all texts (which he calls the “language of God”) was, he records, “an occasion for worship”. He sees God working through evolution (theistic evolution), and is puzzled by the fashion for creation-ism in the United States.’
‘Have courage, counsels Astley; tread your own journey, be brave — do your own thing.’
Hill's 'aim is the critical pursuit of wisdom, which leads him to plunge immediately into questions raised by Early Church theology. Supported by a rich selection of paragraph-length quotations from his sources, he leads the reader clearly through the conundrums of faith, hopping easily from the third century to the 20th, and back again.’

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture, edited by John F. A. Sawyer is reviewed by Richard Harries [See contents and more]. 'The influence of the Bible in the past has been incalculable, and this Companion sets out at least some of the ways in which that can be traced. John Sawyer admits that, despite its 30 substantial essays, it is highly selective, and readers will not find in it all they might hope to see discussed. Nevertheless, this is probably as comprehensive an approach as one could expect to find anywhere, and there is much of interest and use.'

Temptation and Testing by Paul Butler is reviewed by Jeremy Crossley. 'Reminding us that the Greek word for temptation can also mean testing, he explains the original significance of the word, and shows how we can respond to temptation in such a way that we grow more and more into the likeness of Jesus. And that is the aim of the whole book.'

Canada
Parishes
British Columbia: Brentwood Bay, Brentwood Chapel (British Columbia)
British Columbia: Saanichton, St Mary (British Columbia)
British Columbia: West Coast Shared Ministry [St Columba, Tofino; St Aidan on the Hill, Ucluelet] (British Columbia)

Resources
The Church Bookroom: Kingston, Ontario. 'a ministry of the Diocese of Ontario dedicated to providing books and other resources for Christian education, faith, worship and ministry. We are committed to providing personalized service to individuals, churches and the wider community.'

International Order of St Luke the Physician: Ontario chapter. 'a ministry of the Diocese of Ontario dedicated to providing books and other resources for Christian education, faith, worship and ministry. We are committed to providing personalized service to individuals, churches and the wider community.'

Church History
"A More Ample Ordination": Sermon in Reply to the "First Subsidiary Reason" Given by Wm. Bacon Stevens, of the P.E. Church, on Friday, September 30th, 1881, for Re-ordaining a Moravian Presbyter, A Deacon, by William Henry Rice (1881). This sermon includes a long discussion of the re-ordination by an American Episcopal bishop of a Moravian clergyman in 1881. It is an important waymark in Anglican-Moravian relations.

England
Deaneries
Alresford Deanery [30 churches] (Winchester)
Battle and Bexhill Deanery [18 churches] (Chichester)
Crewkerne and Ilminster Deanery [60 churches] (Bath and Wells)
Dover Deanery [21 churches] (Canterbury)

Parishes
Ashford, Christ Church (Canterbury)
Canterbury, City Centre Parish [St Peter with St Alphege and St Margaret; St Mildred with St Mary de Castro ] (Canterbury)
Deal, St Andrew (Canterbury)
Deal, St George (Canterbury)

Resources
Launde Abbey: Retreat house and conference centre of the Diocese of Leicester.

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Complete
On 12 October 2007 the Diocese of Quebec elected Dennis Drainville as coadjutor bishop. The Anglican Journal has more information here.

Japan
Kindergartens
Aiko Kindergarten. Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture. Affiliated with the Diocese of Osaka.
Hanazono Kindergarten. Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture. Affiliated with the Diocese of Yokohama.
Shimodate Kindergarten. Shimodate, Ibaraki Prefecture. Affiliated with the Diocese of Kitakanto.

Letters
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News Centre
Anglicanism said to be growing again. MontrŽal votes for same-sex blessings. Australian General Synod begins in Canberra. Food fight in Central Africa. Melanesian Brothers' conference on Guadalcanal. New Japanese hymnal, first since 1959. C of E parishes to rebel against their bishops. US Presiding bishop speaks to her flock. Archbishop of Sydney explains his thinking. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Anglican Orthodox Church in Canada: Site includes a brief history of this group with a presence in Alberta, Ontario and Nova Scotia.

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USA
Parishes
Vermont: Slate Valley Regional Ministry [St Mark, Castleton; St Luke, Fairhaven; Trinity Church, Poultney; St Paul, Wells] (Vermont)

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.

United States: Church of the Good Shepherd, Punta Gorda, Flordia: Director (Headmaster/Headmistress) Lower - Middle School (Southwest Florida)

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

World
Parishes
St Vincent: St Matthew's Parish [St Matthew, Biabou; St Sylvan, Stubbs; St Mark, Greggs] (Windward Islands)

Worth Noting
A different kind of truth: finding love and redemption in the Anglican Church. Princeton student, Emily Garcia, tells her story.

Anglicanism and Protestantism: Alister McGrath writes in the Church of Ireland Gazette.

Converting to the RCL: Alan Lewis of Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania writes in The Living Church (Milwaukee) on lectionary change afoot.

Wealth creation can atone for the sins of Mammon: Peter Mullen writes in the Times (London). 'But we should not serve money: for that is the sin of Mammon. The City [of London] must look beyond itself to the values of the City of God.'