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Hallo again to all.
Every
week when we publish Anglicans Online, we look for patterns or themes
in the Anglican events of the previous week. Sometimes we find them and
sometimes we don't. This week—at nearly the end of real summer in
the 
northern
hemisphere and nearly the end of real winter in the southern—found
us perplexed. But then we saw something: there is, globally, a lot of
churn about the relationship between church and state. In Nigeria, the
Sharia situation is creating an Islamic government in a country with millions
of Christians. In England, both the church and the government are often
found reflecting on just how much the Church of England should have to
do with England. The United States, which was founded on a principle of
the separation of church and state, supposedly has the highest percentage
of religious believers of any developed nation. The Chief Rabbi of the
United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (UK), has written a fascinating
'Credo' about the difference between state religion and religious statesmen.
Find it in our News
Centre.
We're
delighted at the launch of the new web
site for Africa News Online. We have worked hard for years to find
news of Anglicans in Africa and tell you about it. The Internet made this
possible, but this new web site will make it 
almost
easy.
A great number
of you had a good bit to say on the subject of the map
with the nonstandard orientation. Rather than answer you individually,
we'll note that the map had the orientation of a celestial or star map
with the south at the top; to visualise it correctly you must imagine
lying on your back, on the ground, with your head pointing towards the
South pole and the map projected on a sphere above you. If you own a transparent
globe you can see this easily by peeking through the globe at the inside
of the opposite part. 
One
of your editors is at the moment fascinated by a recent book on the church
and astronomy, called 'The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories',
by J J Heilbron. We'll stop before we start rattling on about meridian
lines...
Speaking of items in churches, Jane Olds in the UK has found herself in the position of substitute sacristan for a month and is quite anxious to hear from someone who could tell her about the accustomed duties of the position. You can reach her at djolds@globalnet.co.uk, if you can help.
See you next week.
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| Cynthia
McFarland cmcf@anglicansonline.org |
Brian
Reid reid@anglicansonline.org |
Last updated: 20 August 2000
URL: http://anglicansonline.org/