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Week of 25 May 2008

Africa
Resources
Johannesburg Anglican Environmental Initiative: 'a formal body of the Diocese of Johannesburg, seeking to meet the challenges being faced by this generation with regards to the environment. We believe it is God's will that we look after this precious planet we call home.'

Book Reviews
Robert Jeffery reviews The Anglican Covenant: Unity and Diversity in the Anglican Communion, The Identity of Anglicanism: Essentials of Anglican Ecclesiology, and A Fallible Church: Lambeth Essays.

Paula Gooder reviews The Books of the New Testament, by Ian Boxall.

J. W. Rogerson reviews Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? by Lester L. Grabbe and Temple Themes in Christian Worship, by Margaret Barker.

England
Parishes
Hindley, St Peter (Liverpool)
Norwich, St Julian's Church and Shrine (Norwich)
Shaw, Holy Trinity (Manchester)

Events
Canada: Quebec, Montebello, 27 July to 3 August 2008: 48th Annual Montreal Boys Choir Course
'The director of the course this year will be John Scott, organist and Master of the Choir at St Thomas Church, New York. The course includes an intensive week of preparing music while staying at the comfortable facilities of the Sedburgh School in Montebello, Quebec, preparing for final services sung on Sunday at Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal.'

Japan
Parishes
Kagoshima, Church of the Resurrection (Kyushu)
Kumamoto, Holy Trinity (Kyushu)
Miyazaki, Holy Trinity (Kyushu)
Saga, House of Prayer (Kyushu)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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New Zealand
Resources
Living Liturgy: 'Living Liturgy by LabOra is a major new initiative for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. As well as providing a huge collection of liturgical resources, Living Liturgy enables the user to prepare a liturgy and produce it as booklets or a PowerPoint presentation at the click of a mouse.'

News Centre
Alarm at women bishops in England. Kenya bishops called cowards. New bishop for Texas. More redundant churches in UK. First woman bishop for Australia. Church and State in Zimbabwe. US Episcopal Church produces advertisements. Americas churches plan February gathering. ABC awards Lambeth degrees. Land stewardship in Barbados. 'Vinegar Bible' returning to Nova Scotia. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Parishes
Maine: Stonington, St Brendan the Navigator (Maine)

Vacancies Centre
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World
Parishes
Singapore: Singapore, My Saviour's Church (Singapore)

Resources
ACROSS: Anglican Crisis Relief Outreach and Support Singapore. Offers 'a Christian response to crisis due to natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, severe winters, droughts, etc.). Our response during such times is important as it is an expression of God's love for the suffering people.'

Worth Noting
Bolivian Mission Towns Revive Baroque Legacy: 'Deep in the tropics of Bolivia, a revival of centuries-old music is captivating crowds and creating the next generation of the country's classical musicians. At an international Baroque music festival this month, strains of Bach and Vivaldi are stirring in the same mission towns that the Jesuits established in the 17th century.' From American National Public Radio's Morning Edition programme.

Corpus Christi: Roderick Strange writes in the Times (London) on 'A simple supper in an upper room that feeds us still'.

St Paul's Cathedral: dome sweet dome: AA Gill, the formidable Sunday Times (London) restaurant critic and mordant essayist, visits St Paul's Cathedral for the first time and describes the experience in prose good enough to eat.

Splitting Up: Anglican Angst: Jason Byassee writes in the Christian Century (Chicago) on ecclesiastical fragmentation. 'Theologians from Augustine onward have insisted that the effort to leave one church to start a better one results not in a better church but a worse one—and it also fosters the bad habit of defection. The history of Western Christendom attests to the wisdom of this view.'

Week of 18 May 2008

Africa
Dioceses
Diocese of Antsiranana http://antsiranana.anglican.org

Book Reviews
Gladstone: God and Politics, by Richard Shannon, reviewed by Michael Wheeler.

Truly Divine and Truly Human: The Story of Christ and the Seven Ecumenical Councils, by Stephen W. Need, reviewed by Andrew Davison.

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, by Michael Ward reviewed by Mike Starkey.

Church History
The Church of England in Northern and Central Europe (1885). The retired Bishop of Rangoon addresses the challenges and promises of expatriate English religion on the Continent.

A Handbook on Welsh Church Defence, by Alfred George Edwards (1894). Edwards writes a densely-argued case against the disestablishment of the Church in Wales; he subsequently served as first archbishop of the disestablished church.

England
Parishes
Belvedere, St Augustine of Canterbury (Rochester)
Bostall Heath, St Andrew (Rochester)
Bures, St Mary (St Edmundsburg and Ipswich)
Falconwood, Bishop Ridley Church (Rochester)
Hutton, All Saints and St Peter (Chelmsford)
Welling, St John the Evangelist (Rochester)

Japan
Parishes
Toyohashi, Church of the Ascension (Chubu)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Church and State in Britain and Zimbabwe. Peeking at signups for Lambeth and GAFCON. Two women bishops in a row in Edmonton. Uganda archbishop vs US presiding bishop. ABC writes to Anglican bishops. Paul Handley interviews Gene Robinson. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Anglican Way Institute: A ministry of the Reformed Episcopal Church sponsoring annual conferences. 'Through worship, prayer, teaching, practical instruction, and fellowship, we seek to form the essentials of the Anglican Way in the youngest adult generation that they might become mature disciples equipped to disciple the nations according to Jesus' Great Commission.'

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USA
Parishes
New York: Avon, Zion Church (Rochester)
New York: Headwaters Mission [Trinity Church, Boonville; St Paul, Constableville; St Mark, Port Leyden] (Central New York)

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: (Adelaide) Mission Facilitator

Canada: Parish of Arundel and Weir (Montreal) Rector

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

Wales
Parishes
Parish of Llandyfodwg and Cwm Ogwr [St David, Wyndham; St Twyfodwg, Glyn Ogwr] (Llandaff)
Parish of Llansantffraid, Bettws and Aberkenfig [St Bride, Llansantffraid; St David, Bettws; St John, Aberkenfig] (Llandaff)

World
Dioceses
Diocese of Chota Nagpur http://chotanagpur.anglican.org

Youth resources
Beulah Enterprises. Opening the world of imaginative spiritual play. 'We offer for sale high quality, unique and innovative resources to inspire imaginative spiritual play, celebration, and learning. As we grow we will provide financial support to the Children’s Mission and job skills training and employment opportunities for inner-city families.'

Worth Noting
After the Fires of London: Christopher Howse writes in the Telegraph (London) 'Of the 36 Anglican churches in the City of London, only 12 should stay open for worship with full-time clergymen, a commission under Lord Templeman recommended in 1994. The rest might be put to other ecclesiastical use or "appropriate secular purposes".'

Preparing for the Lambeth Conference: Dave Walker, our favourite artistic Anglican opinionator by a very long shot, has a fine cartoon as usual.

The Struggle to be Truthful: Simon Barrow writes on the messy business of interpreting church attendance statistics. 'The problem of truthfulness in all this (the quest to portray accurately what is being measured or claimed about something) is that statistics are subject to a host of variables that don’t immediately assist headline writers and summarisers.'