Week
of 13 July 2008
Africa
Parishes
South Africa: Cape Town, St John's Parish [St Luke, Diep River; Christ Church, Kenilworth; St Philip, Kenwyn; Church of the Holy Spirit, Kirstenhof; Emmanuel Church, Wynberg; St John, Wynberg] (Cape Town)
Australia
Parishes
New South Wales: Smithfield Road, St John's Park Church (Sydney)
Book of Common Prayer
Sobornii molitovnik i podavannia sviatikh tain ta ynshi obriadi ta zvichai scho vzhivaiut'sia v anglikans'kii tserkvi v kanadiis'kii dominii (1926). This link will take you to a remarkable Ukrainian-language translation of the 1918 Canadian Book of Common Prayer.
Book
Reviews
Peter Forster reviews Women as Bishops, edited by James Rigney.
John Kiddle reviews Supporting New Ministers in the Local Church: A Handbook, by Keith
Lamdin and David Tilley.
Richard Chartres
reviews Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration, by Gavin Ashenden. And Rowan
Williams reviewed the same book in the
Times Literary Supplement last month.
England
Parishes
Ashley, St Peter (Winchester)
Hemsworth, St Helen (Wakefield)
Leytonstone, St Andrew (Chelmsford)
Warrington (Glazebury), All Saints (Liverpool)
Essays
Family, by Helen Gordon. Helen is a new staff member of Anglicans Online. This brief
but compelling essay is about the response of families to crisis. Or is it?
Events
USA: Washington DC, 3-4 October: Confronting the Past: Changing the Future
'2008 is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the international slave trade. [...] The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church will preside at a Service of Repentance that will take place at 10:30 A.M. Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the Washington National Cathedral, Workshops and a Reception on October 3, from 1:00 – 6:00 PM.'
Japan
Resources
Seikokai Sexual Minorities Project. Website in Japanese only; administered by the missionary bureau of the Diocese of Chubu.
Letters
to Anglicans Online
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News
Centre
Countdown to the [yawn] Lambeth Conference. List of 50 most influential Anglicans. Pope Benedict offers prayers for Lambeth. In search
of wisdom between the extremes. Women bishops approved for C of E. Passing of the Bishop of Bangor. Flight from women bishops. All this,
and more, in the News Centre.
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in the Communion
The Anglican Church Incorporated: 'founded in 1991 to unite various Continuing Anglican Jurisdictions. The denomination currently has five dioceses in the USA and Canada, and also associated jurisdictions in Great Britain, Mexico, Ecuador, Columbia, and India.'
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USA
Parishes
Indiana: Crawfordsville, St John (Indianapolis)
Indiana: Mount Vernon, St John (Indianapolis)
Indiana: Rockport, Peace Church (Indianapolis)
Vacancies
Centre
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Australia: Anglican Board of Mission (Sydney) Church-to-Church Program Manager.
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
Bienvenido a la Iglesia Episcopal: Spanish-language version of portions of the re-designed Episcopal Church USA website. 'La Oficina de Comunicación continúa trabajando para que usted pueda informarse sobre la vida y obra de la Iglesia Episcopal y, además, encontrar otros recursos útiles. Visite esta página frecuentemente, pues continuará siendo actualizada.' [Lo siento!—Ed.]
Grotesque Introspection: Stephen Glover writes for the Daily Mail (London). 'when our own century throws up its different but perhaps no less appalling social problems, our national Church, far from trying to fill this frightening moral vacuum, is too busy talking to itself.'
Vidimus: 'the only on-line magazine devoted to medieval stained glass. Vidimus appears monthly and subscription is free.' 'We hope to encourage interest in medieval and later stained glass, and to promote the work of the CVMA (GB), [a] national survey of medieval stained glass. A vidimus ('we have seen') was the approved design for a window in medieval times.'
When Compromise Fails: An anonymous writer in The Economist opines on and summarises 'Canterbury's cares'. 'What makes a group (of voters, relatives, believers) stick together, even when its membership is varied and quarrelsome? Sometimes deference to a common authority; sometimes fear of adversaries; sometimes common axioms that trump any differences; and sometimes a sentimental 'family feeling' that makes people tolerant of eccentricity or even obnoxious behaviour. If none of those factors is present, then break-up looms.'
Caught in the middle: With Anglican bonds stretched to breaking point, not everyone can be appeased, writes Andrew West in the Sydney
Morning Herald.
Return to the heart of Anglicanism:
In an address to the USPG, the Archbishop of Armagh (Alan Harper) called for a return to the approach of Richard Hooker in seeking to find
the law of God in scripture. And he recalled the 16th century divine's admonition in the preface to the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity,
'There will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand
volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.' |
