Week
of 6 January 2008
Australia
Parishes
Victoria: Sunraysia South (Red Cliffs), St Mark (Bendigo)
Book of Common Prayer
Livro da Oraçaõ Comum. The 1950 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church of Brazil. Charles Wohlers has posted the beginnings of a transcription of this Portuguese-language translation of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer of the US Episcopal Church.
Book
Reviews
Integrity: Leading with God Watching, by Jonathan Lamb,
The Four Vs of Leadership: Vision, Values, Value-added, Vitality, by Peter Shaw,
and
Leading Out of Who You Are: Discovering the Secret of Undefended Leadership, by Simon P. Walker,
are reviewed together by Stephen Cottrell. [Search inside Shaw.] 'Lord save us from the busy leader. If being frantic has got into your bloodstream, as it has mine, then all these books will help; but the one I would recommend is Simon Walker’s. It is only Part One in a trilogy of reflections on the sort of undefended leadership our Church so badly needs.'
Redefining Christian Britain: Post 1945 Perspectives, edited by Jane Garnett, Matthew Grimley, Alana Harris, William Whyte and Sarah Williams, is
reviewed by Richard Harries.
'Ever since the secularisation thesis was promoted more than 50 years ago, it has been disputed... These academics — a number of whom have Oxford connections — show a picture that is more subtle and nuanced, in which Christianity is being transformed in various ways.'
Praying with Paul, by Tom Small, is
reviewed by Philip North in the Church Times and download a 27 page PDF of the book from the publisher. [Ed. The book is available, as far as we can tell, only from Church Times and the publisher.]
Church
History
Reasons against a Separation from the Church of England, by John Wesley (1760). In this brief pamphlet written in 1758 Wesley encourages his followers to remain in the Church of England and to continue attending its parish worship.
Reminiscences of Missionary Work in Amritsar 1872-1873 and on the Afghan Fontier in Peshawar 1873-1890, by Worthington Jukes (1925). Worthington Jukes (1849-1937) was a Canadian Anglican priest who served for nearly two decades as a missionary in what are now India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This extensive manuscript memoir of his ministry there is now available online.
England
Ilkley, St Margaret (Bradford)
Morecambe, Holy Trinity with St Laurence (Blackburn)
Events
UK: 2008: Hope 2008
'Churches across the United Kingdom are constantly at work serving and communicating with 58 Million residents and many visitors to the United Kingdom. 'Hope' proposes to support this work, by facilitating intensified, united, focused prayer and a year of activities, communicating the Gospel through words and actions, creating a lasting legacy of both physical and spiritual change in the lives of communities and individuals.'
Japan
Kindergartens
Hachioji Kindergarten. Hachioji, Tokyo Prefecture. Affiliated with the Diocese of Tokyo.
Letters
Have
a read. Write a letter of your own to us for possible
publication.
News
Centre
UK bishop warns of Islamic extremism. Anti-gay bishops to meet in Jerusalem. Bishop in Jerusalem is not happy about this. Church of England releases response to Draft Covenant. Episcopal Church in San Joaquin doing well. Church Times finally offers online subscriptions. South America makes offer to Canadian parishes. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
Not
in the Communion
Province of The Holy Catholic Church-Western Rite: The Anglican Diocese of the Caribbean and New Granada: 'the original jurisdiction of the Continuing Anglican movement in Latin America, was founded by the Most Rev. Arthur Albert Chambers, and his jurisdiction is in Cuba, Colombia, Venezeula, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, with extra territories of Spain and Texas'.
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USA
Parishes
Kansas: Atchison, Trinity Church (Kansas)
Kansas: Junction, Church of the Covenant (Kansas)
Kansas: McPherson, St Anne (Western Kansas)
Kansas: Newton, St Matthew (Kansas)
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:
St Francis Church, in the Diocese of West Texas,
seeks a youth worker.
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
United Arab Emirates: Dubai, Holy Trinity (Cyprus and the Gulf)
United Arab Emirates: Jebel Ali, Christ Church (Cyprus and the Gulf)
Worth
Noting
The Doves of Twelfth Night: Christopher Howse writes in the Telegraph (London) on one medieval commentator's on the Epiphany.
Keeping Epiphany: Full Homely Divinity has a good page on how to observe this wonderful feast that begins today.
People Not Presents: Chris Chivers writes in the Guardian (London) on the feast of the Epiphany. 'It's when we seem cut off from those possible moments of epiphany connecting and then transcending distinctions of old and young, rich and poor, black and white, Palestinian and Israeli, that we're most diminished as human beings. Because it's in those moments, of course, that we discover what it really means to be human.' |
