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Week of 4 April 2010

Australia
Parishes
Queensland: Bribie Island, St Peter (Brisbane)
Queensland: Parish of Caloundra and Glasshouse Country (Brisbane)
Queensland: Stafford, St Clement on the Hill (Brisbane)

Book Reviews
Alec Graham reviews The Apathetic God: Exploring the Contemporary Relevance of Divine Impassibility, by Daniel Castelo. (Church Times, London)

Rowan Williams reviews The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, by Philip Pullman. (The Guardian)

Canada
Parishes
Newfoundland and Labrador: Parish of Badger's Quay - Pool's Island (Central Newfoundland)
Newfoundland and Labrador: Parish of Salvage (Central Newfoundland)

England
Parishes
Arden Marches Group (Coventry)
Skegness Group (Lincoln)
Stamford, All Saints with St John the Baptist (Lincoln)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
+Sydney says secular society leads to loneliness. ABC criticises Irish Catholic Church, takes some heat himself. ABW criticises reality TV. Wonderous new cathedral organ in Llandaff. Interview with Zimbabwe government minister. Eyebrows and tempers raised again in Auckland. Church steeple toppled in Canadian property feud. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Parishes
Missouri: Eureka, St Francis (Missouri)
Missouri: Hannibal, Trinity Church (Missouri)
Missouri: Mexico, St Matthew (Missouri)
New Jersey: Teaneck, Christ Church (Newark)
New Jersey: Totowa, Christ Church (Newark)

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
Easter messages: From the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church; the Presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church; the Archbishop of Melbourne; the Archbishop of Armagh; the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Breaking the Surface: One can't read anything Anglican or Christian at this time of the year without finding reflections on the Meaning of It All. Some are maudlin, others startling, and some simply boring. Not so with the American writer Anne Lamott, in her essay in Salon. (If you're sensitive to expletives, read with caution.) We'll take the expletives for the sheer audacity and truth of her writing.

Waiting for the Light: Beth Maynard writes for The Living Church (Milwaukee). "I often tell people that the best liturgy I ever witnessed was an Easter Vigil at Boston's Church of the Advent in the early 1990s," Beth Maynard writes. "Friends were having a baby baptized, and I arrived at the church with only the instructions to come look for them somewhere 'up front.'"

Week of 28 March 2010

Australia
Parishes
Western Australia: Australind, St Nicholas (Bunbury)

Book of Common Prayer
Handbok wid Gudstjenstens Förrättande (1879). 'This translation of parts of the 1789 BCP of the American Episcopal Church was prepared for Swedish-speaking emigrants to the United States.' Transcribed by AO Editor Richard Mammana, the introductory page for this service book includes comprehensive information on other Anglican liturgical translations into Swedish.

Book Reviews
John Court reviews The Hebrew Gospel and the Development of the Synoptic Tradition, by James R. Edwards, for the Church Times (London).

Anthony Harvey reviews two books on the Dead Sea Scrolls for the Church Times (London).

John Saxbee reviews The Church and Secularity: Two Stories of Liberal Society, by Robert Gascoigne, also for the Church Times (London).

Canada
Parishes
Alberta: Edmonton (Riverbend), Holy Trinity (Edmonton)

England
Parishes
Shelley, All Saints (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
Southampton (Archers Road), St Mark (Winchester)
Upper Alde Benefice (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
Yoxford Benefice (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)

Episcopal Elections
Ongoing
The Diocese of the Rio Grande has announced a slate of nominees for its next bishop. An electing convention is scheduled for 24 April 2010.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Police bias towards Kunonga exposed. Man of the froth. Much ado about alleged desecration. Ownership row hits church services. New Primate Okoh installed in Nigeria. Incense a burning issue. CofE issues prayers for confused UK voters. Alternative path to church leadership in Singapore. New Bishop of Chelmsford. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Parishes
Florida: Coral Gables, St Bede Chapel (Southeast Florida)
Florida: Miami Springs, All Angels (Southeast Florida)
New York: Bronx (Co-Op City), St Joseph (New York)
New York: Tomkins Cove, Chapel of St John the Divine (New York)

Vacancies Centre
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Australia: Epping, St Alban (Sydney) Organist

World
Resources
Living Threads Haiti: 'We sell altar linens that provide life-saving aid to women in need. When you buy from us you support extremely poor women in a small village in Haiti and you promote the practice of Fair Trade principles.'

Worth Noting
A Communion of Churches: Michael Poon writes on the historic significance of the Anglican Covenant. 'It begins by examining the nature and reasons of the "ecclesial deficit" of the Anglican Communion. It points out that the ecclesial status of the Anglican Communion has never been clarified. The Anglican Communion arises historically as an accident. It has never been constituted as an ecclesial body. The paper traces the transformations in the Anglican ecclesiastical map amid powerful global undercurrents in the second half of the twentieth century.'

The Lure of Last Words: Nicholas Papadopulos writes on last words, Christ's and ours, in the Times (London). 'The last words of the dying fascinate us. This fascination testifies to our unchanging interest in words. We are more aware than any other generation of our capacity for abusing them: we are weary of the spin of politicians; we are unimpressed by the polish of advertisers; we are appalled at the motives of demagogues. Yet still we are fascinated by words.'

Same-Sex Relationships in the Life of the Church: The US Episcopal Church's House of Bishops has published a draft of a 95-page report with this title. Thinking Anglicans notes: 'This is really two reports, one from the “Traditionalists” and one from the "Liberals"'.