Week
of 27 July 2008
Africa
Parishes
South Africa: Formosa, St Peter (George)
Resources
South Africa: St Martin's School. Rosettenville, Johannesburg. 'an independent, non-racial, co-educational boarding school' affiliated with the Diocese of Christ the King.
Biblical Resources
Codex Sinaiticus:
'Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript
contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding
importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity – is of supreme
importance for the history of the book.' This is the first release of the Codex Sinaiticus Project website. it will be substantially
updated in November 2008 and completed in July 2009.
Book
Reviews
Bruce Duncan reviews Jesus: A Portrait, by Gerald O'Collins.
Julian Litten reviews two books on matters sepulchral: Tomb Destruction and Scholarship: Medieval Monuments in Early Modern
England, by Phillip Lindley;
and
A Fair Gate to Oblivion: A Celebration of the English Epitaph, by
J. P. G. Taylor.
Peter Day reviews Micah's Challenge: The Church's Responsibility to the Global Poor, edited by Marijke Hoek and Justin Thacker.
John Habgood
reviews The Creationists: From scientific creationism to Intelligent Design, by Ronald L. Numbers.
Church
History
Biography
of the Rev. Charles Isenberg, Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Abyssinia and Western India from 1832 to 1864, by H.
Gundert (1885). Charles Isenberg (born Karl Wilhelm, 1806-1864) was a widely-traveled Anglican missionary who worked primarily in what
are now India and Ethiopia. His translations of Anglican material into Amharic and Marathi represent
significant missionary publishing efforts. Isenberg was a close relative of the modern German writer Herman Hesse.
England
Parishes
Exeter, St David (Exeter)
Exeter (Mount Dinham), St Michael and All Angels (Exeter)
Isle Local Ministry Group [20 parishes] (Bath and Wells)
Episcopal
Ongoing
The Diocese of Alaska has begun a bishop-search process. The diocese's dedicated bishop-search website has information regarding timelines, budget, committees, and prayers for use during this process.
Letters
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News
Centre
Lambeth Conference continues. Church and State in New South Wales. Church closure rate in the UK. Bishops march. All this, and more,
in the News Centre.
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World
Dioceses
India: Diocese of Delhi — http://delhi.anglican.org
Pakistan: Diocese of Raiwind — http://raiwind.anglican.org
Worth
Noting
The Archbishop's Sermon: 'This Conference is a time when we can tell each other – and tell the world – about this first and most important job that Anglicans, like other Christians, do: being there, so that they can say 'Christ is here; you're not alone.' They say it where there is daily terror and death, where large communities know levels of daily bereavement we can't imagine [...].' See also I am: Sunday Worship (BBC Radio 4) on 27 July broadcast from St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury, during the Lambeth Conference. The ABC preaches at a special service based on 'I am' sayings from John's Gospel. Audio is available for streaming on demand for seven days.
News
from the big blue tent: Thinking Anglicans provides a serial account of highlights and lowlights from each day of the Lambeth
Conference thus far.
Try being transformed by joy: 'Drinking wine with M. Rollet makes me ponder that happiness ought to play a greater part in the Christian life than it does at present.' Giles Fraser writes in the Church Times (London).
Wheat and tares
in Canterbury: the Church Times leader looked to the Gospel which was expounded in Canterbury Cathedral as authority that
'coexistence is the only solution foreseeable to the bishops'. |
