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Week of 13 January 2008

Africa
Parishes
South Africa: Bergvliet, St Martin (Cape Town)

Book of Common Prayer
www.commonprayer.org. 'This Internet Edition of the Daily Offices includes versions of the Order for Morning and Evening Prayer which incorporate the Psalms, Scripture Lessons and Collect for the day based on the [US] 1928 Book of Common Prayer (1943 Lectionary) and the Authorized (King James) Bible into the text. The Occasional Offices from the [US] 1928 BCP commonly used with Morning and Evening Prayer, and privately, are included in their entirety, along with all of the various sections of the BCP useful as prayer supplements.'

Book Reviews from the Church Times
Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History, by David Nash, reviewed by Ian Bradley.

The Nature of Biblical Criticism, by John Barton, reviewed by Anthony Phillips.

The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism, James J. Buckley, Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, and Trent Pomplun, editors, reviewed by Lavinia Byrne.

Canada
Parishes
Saskatchewan: Regina, St James (Qu'Appelle)

Church History
Faith through Love. A Sermon Preached in St. Mary's Chapel, Peekskill, New York, on Low Sunday, 1896, Being the First Sunday after the Burial of Sister Harriet, Foundress of the "Sisterhood of St. Mary, New York," and for Thirty-two Years Its Mother Superior, by Arthur Lowndes (1896). Harriet Starr Cannon (1823-1896) was a leader in forging a place for Anglican women in the religious life during the nineteenth century.

England
Parishes
Donnington Wood, St Matthew (Lichfield)
Lofthouse, Christ Church (Ripon and Leeds)
Stanwick Group [St Paul, Alborough St John; St Hilda, Caldwell; Christ Church, East Layton; St Cuthbert, Forcett; St James the Great, Melsonby; St John the Baptist, Stanwick] (Ripon and Leeds)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
The Diocese of Maryland has announced the names of nominees for its next bishop. Biographies are available online at this address, and the petition process for further nominations will remain open until 28 January 2008. The electing convention is scheduled for 29 March 2008.

The Diocese of Southern Virginia has launched a bishop-search website and is now accepting nominations for its tenth diocesan bishop.

Europe
Parishes
Hungary: Budapest, St Margaret (Diocese in Europe)

Events
USA: Washington, Seattle, 9-12 April 2008: Episcopal Communicators Conference
All conference details are now being finalized. A conference brochure is being compiled.

Ireland
Parishes
Tullow Group [St Michael, Aghold; Mullinacuffe Church; Shillelagh Church; St Columba, Tullow] (Cashel and Ossory)
Wexford Union of Parishes [Castlebridge Church, Ardcolm; St James, Horetown; Killurin Church; St Munn, Taghmon; St Iberius, Wexford] (Cashel and Ossory)

Japan
Kindergartens
Eiko Kindergarten. Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. Affiliated with the Diocese of Kobe.

Hatsukari Kindergarten. Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture. Affiliated with the Diocese of Kitakanto.

St Michael's Kindergarten. Sapporo, Hokkaido. Affiliated with the Diocese of Hokkaido.

Parishes
Kawagoe, Christ Church (Kitakanto)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Ousted Harare bishop forms new province. 'You can't fire me, I quit' in San Joaquin. Fort Worth right behind San Joaquin. Church and state in Kenya. GAFCON plans continue for Jerusalem. Australian bishop disassociates from GAFCON. Newfoundland bishop requires clergy loyalty pledge. New bishop consecrated in Nevada. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Parishes
California: Hanford, Church of the Saviour (San Joaquin)
Colorado: Monte Vista, St Stephen (Colorado)

Vacancies Centre
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Seeking a position? Check our Vacancies Centre as well as scan vacancy pages on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.

World
Parishes
Singapore: Singapore, Church of South India Malayalam Congregation (Church of South India)

Worth Noting
Baptism allows us to share fully in the life of Jesus: Monsignor Roderick Strange writes in the Times (London). 'Christians do not believe that only those who have been baptised are loved by God. The baptised are not the charmed circle of God's beloved. Everyone is loved by God. No one is excluded. We exist because God loves us. We have been created by God's love. So why should anyone need bother to be baptised?'

One Hundred Years of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: 'In this week's All Things Considered, Roy Jenkins asks what of lasting worth has a century of praying for Christian unity produced? And what are the particular ecumenical challenges for the 21st century?' From BBC Wales.

Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007: 'A powerful woman, large-hearted, fearless, quixotic, profoundly imaginative, unwilling to settle for mediocrity. Tall and queenly, she physically embodied her mental and spiritual attributes. I remember occasions when, in church during Advent, she would rise to full height, spread her arms wide like the Angel of the Annunciation, and declare, "Fear not!" in a tone that allowed no gainsaying. It was a challenge impossible to ignore.' This fine memorial essay appears in the current issue of Books and Culture (Chicago).

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
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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.'