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Hallo again to all.
If you have
read any Anglican news at all in the last year, you know that institutional
churches are having difficulties around the world, for various reasons.
One of the hardest-hit churches is the Anglican
Church of Canada. This week we learned that, as part of its financial
problems, it has let go David Harris, the editor of the Anglican
Journal. David Harris is one of the best editors in the world, 
and
under his leadership the Anglican Journal became one of the best religious
publications in the world. We know that the staff left behind are capable
people, and we are confident that they will be able to keep the greatness
in the Anglican Journal, but losing David Harris is a real blow. Even
the people who strongly disagreed with him seemed to read his publication.
Meanwhile, over in London, the Telegraph (a commercial newspaper) has
discontinued its religious columnist, Clifford Longley. It is a bad week
for religious journalism in the Anglican world.
Nearly
every newspaper in the world had something to say about the document released
this week by the Vatican that says, in essence, that only the Roman Catholic
Church is actually a church. Well, The Church. We have gathered in our
News Centre an extensive collection of articles
about this event, including the original document, official replies, journalistic
replies, and various analyses. (No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.)
As you have surely noticed, Anglicans Online publishes columns from time to time by people whose work we believe will be of global interest. Sometimes those columnists will provoke a reply that itself is worth publishing; for this purpose we have created the AO Forum, in which we will publish replies that, in our opinion, deserve to be seen. This week we have a reply by Ronald Young to a previous column by the Reverend Tony Clavier.
This week we post two notices on our new Professional Exchanges page, one notice from a rector in Australia and the other from an organist and choirmaster in London. If you'd like to consider a holiday exchange, have a look at our page for details. And see New This Week for all that's, well, new.
The technology of the internet does not make it very easy to measure readership. It's rather hard to tell by looking at the records just how many people have been to a site. To measure more accurately would require that we use cookies, which we know a lot of people don't like. Whatever meaning the numbers might have, we know that when they double, that there are twice as many people reading as before. We noted this week that the daily and weekly and monthly totals for Anglicans Online readership are twice what they were a year ago. Our best readership estimate is that about 250,000 people read Anglicans Online these days, though not necessarily every week. We're delighted.
See you next week.
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| Cynthia
McFarland cmcf@anglicansonline.org |
Brian Reid reid@anglicansonline.org |
Last updated: 10 September 2000
URL: http://anglicansonline.org/