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Week of 13 April 2008

Africa
Schools
South Africa: St Andrew's School, Welkom. Pre-primary through high school. Affiliated with the Diocese of the Free State.

Book of Common Prayer
Tabu Samu Koluzagu Lova Abeni Lo Savo La Sua Vere La Archbishop Lova Malanala Telo Tei Ata Melanesia Lo Province La. This liturgy, published in 1978, is used by members of the Church of the Province of Melanesia on Savo Island. It is written in Savosavo, a threatened language spoken by just over 2000 people.

Book Reviews
2000 Years of Amazing Grace: The story and meaning of the Christian faith, the Christianity Primer, by Paul F. M. Zahl, reviewed by David Edwards.

The Bible for Sinners: Interpretation in the Present Time, by Christopher Rowland and Jonathan Roberts, reviewed by Stephen Smalley.

How to Choose a Translation for All its Worth: A Guide to Using and Understanding Bible Versions, by Gordon D. Fee and Mark L. Strauss, reviewed by John Pridmore.

The New York Times Book Review carries this review of Steven Waldman's Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America. Reviewer Richard Brookhiser writes: 'Perhaps the strongest supporters of the separation of church and state in the founding era were the communicants of a new, vigorous church, the Baptists. From 1760 to 1778 there were 56 jailings of Baptist preachers in Anglican Virginia. When the Rev. James Ireland continued to preach through the window of his cell, two supporters of the 39 Articles put a bench to the wall, stood on it and urinated in his face. No Barsetshire atmosphere in the New World.'

Canada
Parishes
New Brunswick: Moncton, St Andrew (Fredericton)

England
Parishes
Avon, Locking Castle Church (Bath and Wells)
Benefice of Harting with Elsted and Treyford cum Didling [St Andrew, Didling; St Paul, Elsted; St Mary and St Gabriel, South Harting] (Chichester)
Stoke, St Mary (Bath and Wells)
Weston-super-Mare, St Paul (Bath and Wells)

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Ongoing
The Diocese of Idaho has scheduled a 'walkabout' in June for nominees in its ongoing bishop search. The bishop search website of the diocese has more information.

Events
USA: Oregon, Portland, 18-20, 23-27 June 2008: Summer Seminars
'This year the Center [for Spiritual Development at Trinity Cathedral, Portland] offers two Summer Seminars, back-to-back: a three-day seminar with Martin Marty and Peter Marty and a week-long seminar on Jesus and Christian Formation today with Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan.'

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
First woman bishop for Australia. US taxpayers asked to Give it for Good. Vicar of Trumpington commanded to leave. ABC condemns threats and violence against gays. Bishops in Brazil protest unauthorized visit from Southern Cone. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Parishes
Maryland: Dundalk, St George and St Matthew (Maryland)
Maryland: Havre de Grace, St John (Maryland)
Maryland: Sharpsburg, St Paul (Maryland)
Tennessee: Franklin, Good Samaritan (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Madison, St James the Less (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Sewanee, Otey Parish (Tennessee)
Tennessee: Sewanee, St James (Tennessee)

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.

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

Worth Noting
Holy Week Lectures by the Archbishop of Canterbury: Thinking Anglicans has a roundup of links and comment related to the archbishop's lectures on Faith and Science, Faith and Politics, and Faith and History.

Liverpool Cathedral performance: From the BBC Religion and Ethics Sunday programme. 'Liverpool's Gothic Anglican cathedral is full of extraordinary spaces, some of which will be filled next month by the theatre company DreamThinkSpeak who are performing the world premiere of One Step Forward, One Step Back. The production is inspired by Dante's Paradiso and uses parts of the cathedral never seen by the public before.'

We need faith, and reality points us to a belief in God: Geoffrey Rowell writes in the Times (London) on faith and creeds. 'reality points us to the God who made us, and whose being and action the Christian creeds confess, as one who is a communion of love, and life, and relationship, the source of our being, the ground of our knowing, the goal of our living.'

Week of 6 April 2008

Australia
Parishes
Victoria: Emerald, St Mark (Melbourne)
Victoria: Richmond, St Stephen (Melbourne)

Book Reviews
Shaping Theology: Engagements in a Religious and Secular World, by David F. Ford, reviewed by Richard Harries.

Surprised by Hope, by Tom Wright, reviewed by Alec Graham.

Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music, by Jeremy Begbie, reviewed by Helen Burrows.

Church History
Are There Romanizing Germs in the Prayer Book?, by Franklin Rising (1868). This influential 19th-century American document summarizes Anglican evangelical objections to the Book of Common Prayer. It provided a strong platform for the soon-to-be-formed Reformed Episcopal Church.

A Life in Order: The Memoirs of Brother Francis SSF (2003). Brother Francis, an Anglican Franciscan, died in late 2003 just a few weeks short of his 100th birthday. His autobiography is now available online by permission of the Australian branch of the Society of St Francis.

England
Parishes
Mayfield, St Dunstan [with Good Shepherd, Five Ashes] (Chichester)

Events
Canada: Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: 2010 Celebration
'the 300th Anniversary of the first B.C.P. service held in Canada. The exact date was October 10th, 1710, at Port Royal in Annapolis Royal. We also celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the opening of the Cathedral Church of All Saints, on September 10th., 1910. Our theme is "A journey Just Begun" from the Common Praise song 'She Flies on." 2010 Anniversary events will take place during the time leading up to the October 2010 celebration.'

Japan
Kindergartens
Holy Love Kindergarten. Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture. Affiliated with the Diocese of Tohoku

Letters to Anglicans Online
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New Zealand
Parishes
Tahunanui, St Stephen (Nelson)

News Centre
Canadian judge orders diocese to let worshippers into church. Virginia judge allows property dispute case to move forward. Church in Wales vote fails to permit women bishops. Call for moratorium on building new mosques in Britain. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Parishes
Arkansas: Paragould, All Saints (Arkansas)
Arkansas: Searcy, Trinity Church (Arkansas)
Texas: Dallas, Our Saviour (Dallas)
Texas: Prosper, St Paul (Dallas)

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.

Australia: Parishes and Schools (Adelaide) Clergy to serve as Incumbents or Chaplains.

England: Parish of Tettenhall Regis, Wolverhampton (Lichfield) Team 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
An issue! An issue! We all fall down: Mark Oakley writes in the Church Times (London). 'In 1930, the Lambeth Conference concluded that Anglicans stand for “an open Bible, a pastoral priesthood, a common worship, a standard of conduct consistent with that worship and a fearless love of truth”. My fear is that those who would now homogenise our Church place some of these at severe risk.'

Coexistence: From the Christian Century (Chicago). 'Williams was arguing that Christians can be faithful to their religious identity and also allow others, in this case Muslims, to be faithful to their identity, and that all can coexist in a pluralistic democracy. Militants on all sides—Christians, Muslims and secularists—are convinced he's wrong. Let us hope, for the sake of civic peace and religious fidelity, that he's not.'