Week of 15 April 2012

Australia
Resources
Anglican Deaconess Ministries Limited: 'Since 1891, Anglican Deaconess Ministries Limited has brought the gospel of Jesus Christ and responded to human need through a range of ministries. These include education, training for ministry to seniors, palliative care, health services, homes for disadvantaged youth and training women for Christian ministry and service.'

Book of Common Prayer
Thathamet (1926). Permanent Anglican missionary activity in the Gran Chaco of northern Argentina began in 1911 under the auspices of the South American Missionary Society. The Wichí people of this region speak a number of languages; this translation and subsequent Anglican translations have been into Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz. Liturgical titles and headings in this translation are provided in Spanish.

Canada
Cathedrals
British Columbia: Prince Rupert, Cathedral Church of St Andrew (Caledonia)

Church Times Book Reviews
Bridget Nichols reviews The Journey of Christian Initiation: Theological and Pastoral Perspectives, edited by Paul Avis.

Martyn Percy reviews The Last Things: A New Approach, by Anthony C. Thiselton.

Lavinia Byrne reviews Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt, by Richard Holloway.

England
Parishes
Downton, St Laurence (Salisbury)
Mere, St Michael (Salisbury)
Shaftesbury Team Ministry (Salisbury)

Education
The University of Birmingham Anglican Society.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Easter in Tripoli. Moving ahead with a cardboard cathedral for Christchurch. Multifaith homes in the wilderness. Glastonbury has new holy thorn. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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Thanks
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USA
Parishes
Wyoming: Gillete, Holy Trinity Church (Wyoming)

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.

Wales
Parishes
Parish of Sketty (Swansea and Brecon)

Worth Noting
Christianity is not bad for women: The Right Revd. Mary Douglas Glaspool writes for the Huffington Post. 'Saying Christianity is bad for women is like saying science is bad for children.'

A Church Divided: Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes for American National Public Radio.

Week of 8 April 2012

Book of Common Prayer
Scottish Liturgies of the Reign of James VI. (1871) Charles Wohlers has digitised this important collection of BCP texts.

Church Times Book Reviews
Juliette Day reviews Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History: Lifting a Veil on Liturgy's Past, by Teresa Berger.

John Rogerson reviews Holy Land? Challenging Questions from the Biblical Landscape, by Andrew D. Mayes.

Peter Forster reviews Jesus and the Subversion of Violence: Wrestling with the New Testament Evidence, by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld.

England
Parishes
Ulverston Parish (Carlisle)

Episcopal Elections
Ongoing
The Diocese of Texas has announced the names of two nominees in its bishop suffragan election.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Easter messages from around the Communion. Does your child know the Lord's Prayer? Commission seeks views on ABC's ministry. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Not in the Communion
PEAR USA: 'an association of Anglican churches that are committed to the historic biblical faith as passed on through the English reformers.' The North American mission of the Province de L'Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda.

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USA
Parishes
California: Livermore, St Bartholomew (California)
New York: New York City (Manhattanville), St Mary (New York)

Vacancies Centre
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Australia: Maclean Parish (Grafton) Rector

Australia: Lower Macleay Parish (Grafton) Rector

Worth Noting
Easter messages from around the communion: The Archbishop of Canterbury; the Archbishop of York; the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church; the Archbishop of Dublin; the Archbishop of Melbourne; the Primate of Canada; the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA; the senior bishops of Aotearoa-New Zealand Polynesia.

The Royal Maundy. In 2012 and 1952.

A Hymn to the Organist. Ysenda Maxtone Graham writes for The Spectator. 'Some people swoon over film stars. I swoon over organists. Good organists, that is, not bad organists.'

Second Annunciation. 'It is not improper to look ahead even as we remember our Lord's Passion. For a birth was to come from this second Annunciation. Just fifty days later, Our Lady would be at another birth — of the Church — and she would become both its icon and its mother.' Jon Adamson writes for The Living Church (Milwaukee).