Week
of 18 November 2007
Australia
Schools
and Education
Anglican Schools Office:
'The role of the Anglican Schools Office is to support the senior management
and governing bodies of Anglican Schools across Queensland. We provide
quality advice and service in many areas, including finance, new school
development, marketing, professional development of staff, industrial
relations, legal and other human resource issues.'
Book
Reviews
Robert Jeffery reviews Preaching What We Practice: Proclamation and
Moral Discernment, by
David J. Schlafer and Timothy F. Sedgwick, with 44 Sermons to Serve the Present Age, by
Angela Shier-Jones and Kimberly D. Reisman. Preaching What We Practice 'gives us samples of sermons preached in a contemporary context. It is a theologically literate book that analyses the problems of preaching today. It should be required reading for all preachers.' Shier-Jones and Reisman have had an interesting idea. They take the themes of John Wesley’s seminal 44 Sermons, which helped to define Methodist doctrine, and have asked
contemporary Methodists from around the world to produce new sermons on the same texts, [but] it is a very mixed bag, containing sermons from some blatant Evangelicals, through those with careful exposition, to contemporary sermons such as Leslie Griffiths’s brilliant polemic against bigotry.
Creation and Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the
Moral Theology of Marriage, by
Christopher Chenault Roberts, is
reviewed by Penny Seabrook. 'The title’s strength lies in its survey of the historical development of Christian thought about the significance of being male or female — which lies behind Roberts’s use of the term “sexual difference”.'
Rooted in Detachment: Living the Transfiguration, by
Kenneth Stevenson, is
reviewed by John Binns. 'The Gospel passages describing the transfiguration are evocative and beautiful: the event takes place on a mountain-top after a hard climb; it is full of light and beauty, and there is a message of mysterious glory... The final chapters synthesise the various themes, bringing disparate thoughts together, and showing how the different elements introduced through the discussion contribute to a coherent message.'
Canada
Miscellaneous Resources
Canterbury Hills Conference
Centre: Ancaster, Ontario. Conference facility of the Diocese
of Niagara. 'provides delicious home-style meals, comfortable beds,
and air-conditioned meeting rooms that combine rustic charm with
modern facilities for small or large groups'.
Church
History
The
Disestablished Church in the Republic of the United States of America,
by Walter Farquhar Hook (1869). This is an English churchman's sympathetic
account of disestablished Anglicanism in the United States. Its author
W. F. Hook (1798-1875)
was a figure of some significance in the Victorian Church of England.
Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Canada:
The Reverend Canon Dr. Linda Nicholls has been elected suffragan bishop
in the Diocese
of Toronto.
West Africa: The
Very Reverend Jonathan B. B. Hart, Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Monrovia,
was elected bishop of the Diocese of Liberia on 17 November. The bishop-elect
is a graduate of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA.
England
Parishes
Torquay, St Luke (Exeter)
Wellington and District
Team Ministry [St John the Baptist, Ashbrittle; St Bartholomew,
Bathealton; St Giles, Bradford on Tone; St Nicholas, Kittisford; St
Peter, Langford Budville; All Saints, Nynehead; All Saints, Rockwell
Green; St Peter and St Paul, Runnington; Holy Cross, Sampford Arundel;
St Michael & All Angels, Stawley; St Margaret, Thorne St Margaret;
St John the Baptist, Wellington; St Mary the Virgin, West Buckland] (Bath
and Wells)
Events
USA: Maryland, Baltimore, 5-8 June 2008: Everyone Everywhere
'Everyone, Everywhere is a conference for parishes, dioceses, individuals,
and groups active in the global mission of The Episcopal Church. The event
is for people committed to building and maintaining companion relationships
with our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world.'
Japan
Resources
Kujukuri Home.
Kujukuri, Chiba Prefecture. Group home with medical care and rehabilitation
centre; affiliated with the Diocese of Yokohama.
Letters
to Anglicans Online
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a read. Write a letter of your own to
us for possible publication.
News
Centre
Tutu chides Anglican communion for obsession with gays. Canadian bishop
in need of haircut jumps to Southern Cone. Fort Worth and San Joaquin
members move towards Southern Cone. Three milestones for the Church
of England. High-tech protection for English church roofs. Church of
England asked 'why not elect bishops?' Online Q & A in the C of
E. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
Not
in the Communion
Reformed Episcopal Church Diocese
of the Southeast
Odds and Ends
Sojourners: Faith, Politics and Culture. 'Founded in 1971, our mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church and the world.' This site is active, has a magazine available, and is dedicated to the doing not just the talking about. [Currently already listed in Books and Magazines.]
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USA
Parishes
New Mexico: Albuquerque, St Thomas of Canterbury (Rio Grande)
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.
Canada: St
Peter, Erindale: Director of Worship (Toronto)
For
more information on this and other listings, see our Vacancies
Centre. Also scan
vacancy pages on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.
World
Cathedrals
Korea: Daejeon, St Benedict's Cathedral,
Diocese of Daejeon [MIDI attack, but the music is quite nice]
Parishes
Singapore: Singapore, Chapel of the Resurrection (Singapore)
Worth
Noting
Defender
of the Faith: Christopher Howse writes in the Telegraph (London)
on the religious dimensions of English coronation rites.
From
Calvary to Lambeth:
BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a programme with this name on Tuesday
27 November at 8.00 p.m. GMT. Thinking Anglicans has
more.
Staying
Power:
American Methodist pastor James Howell writes in the Christian Century
(Chicago) on why he stayed in active ministry. 'It was around midnight
that I had to answer a question: Why did I go into the ministry? To
do something grand and impressive? Or because I thought I might love
somebody, some family, some child, in God's name?' |
