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Week of 18 December 2011

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Advent Resources
Is It Christmas?

Africa
Resources
Church Mission Society - Africa: 'Envisioning, Mobilizing, and Equipping leadership for God's Mission, through the Church in Africa and beyond.'

Book of Common Prayer
宗古聖敎會公禱文: 강고셩희공도문 (1908). AO Editor Richard Mammana has digitised this early translation into Korean of Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, the Litany, and Holy Communion.

Canada
Parishes
New Brunswick: Tantramar Region Shared Anglican Ministry (Fredericton)

Church Times Book Reviews
Graham James reviews Leadership and Oversight: New Models for Episcopal Ministry, by Malcolm Grundy.

David Stancliffe reviews Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology, edited by Jeremy S. Begbie and Steven R. Guthrie.

AOJ Cockshut reviews Shakespeare and Religion, by Alison Shell.

England
Parishes
Barkisland, Christ Church (Wakefield)
Emley, St Michael the Archangel (Wakefield)
Halifax, Ovenden, St George (Wakefield)
Pellon, Christ Church (Wakefield)
Rishworth, St John (Wakefield)

Episcopal Elections
Ongoing
The Diocese of Western Massachusetts has an unusually-attractive bishop-search website.

Letters to Anglicans Online
Have a read. Write a letter of your own to us for possible publication.

News Centre
Auckland church turns heads again. Kunonga thugs target helpful schools. Auckland Castle art again at risk. Two Canadian bishops sent overseas. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Episcopal Archdiocese of the Mid-West: 'We are an autocephalous jurisdiction within the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, and in full communion with the Apostolic Communion of Anglican Churches. The Episcopal Archdiocese of the Midwest is an Anglican Rite jurisdiction, holding true to the ancient creeds of the faith (Nicene and Apostles'), while promoting and endorsing a life of holiness and empowerment through the Holy Spirit.'

South Africa
Parishes
Khayelitsha, St Michael and All Angels (False Bay)

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USA
Cathedrals
New Jersey: Newark, Cathedral Church of the Trinity and St Philip (Newark)

Parishes
Ohio: Cleveland, St Luke (Ohio)

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.

World
Parishes
Kuwait: Ahmadi, St Paul (Cyprus and the Gulf)

Worth Noting
Beatboxing vicar raps nativity story to Devon churchgoers: Just that. The YouTube video is in the article in The Guardian.

Holy Mess: 'A documentary about the work of Protest Chaplains at Occupy Boston'.

O come all ye tone-deaf – if only once a year: In The Telegraph, Michael White writes about the business of singing aloud in a group; alas, for most people, only once a year .

Why vicars like me are handing out leaflets this Christmas: Chris Chivers, in The Guardian, markets his parish's late-night activity.

Week of 11 December 2011

Advent Resources
Is It Christmas?

Canada
Parishes
British Columbia: Terrace, St Matthew (Caledonia)

Church Times Book Reviews
Peter McGeary reviews Finding Your Way around 'Common Worship': A Simple Guide, by Mark Earey.

Paula Gooder reviews Making Sense of the Bible, by Helen-Ann Hartley and Making Sense of God's Love: Atonement and Redemption, by Lorraine Cavanagh.

Duncan Dormor reviews Learning to Speak Christian, by Stanley Hauerwas.

England
Parishes
Barlow, St Lawrence (Derby)
Erringden, St Michael (Wakefield)

Letters to Anglicans Online
Have a read. Write a letter of your own to us for possible publication.

News Centre
Hang the archangels! AMiA divorces Rwanda. St Hilda beats bats just in time. Anglican/Lutheran consultation on marriage. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
Diocese of the Carolinas: 'We are a "diocese in formation" within the Anglican Church in North America.'

South Africa
Schools and Education
Western Province Preparatory School, Claremont, Cape Town. Anglican prep school in South Africa related to St Andrew's College.

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USA
Parishes
New York: Oneonta, St James (Albany)
Wisconsin: Monroe, St Andrew (Milwaukee)

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.

World
Parishes
Mexico: Riberas, St Andrew (Western Mexico)

Worth Noting
Archbishop's Ecumenical Letter to Churches. 'In his ecumenical Christmas Letter to the heads of other Churches and Christian world communions, the Archbishop of Canterbury urges Christian leaders to overcome suspicion and fear.'

Boutique Church: 'We got so fascinated with ourselves that the world just sped by us,' says Budde. 'We're like a boutique. We're the most inclusive church in the world that's the tiniest church in Christendom. . . . I'm not interested in being the leader of a boutique church.' The Washington Post interviews the Right Revd Mariann Budde, new diocesan Bishop of Washington DC.

God in austerity Britain: 'As recession looms, the Church of England is active and vocal, but in the wrong way.' Thus saith The Economist.