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Week of 17 October 2004

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Australia
Queensland: Brisbane, Holy Spirit (Brisbane)
Queensland: Camp Hill, Parish of Camp Hill with Norman Park [Annunciation; Transfiguration, Norman Park] (Brisbane)
Queensland: Charleville, Parish of Charleville [All Saints; St Luke, Augathella; All Souls, Morven] (Brisbane)
Queensland: The Gap, St Mark (Brisbane)

Schools
New South Wales: St Martins College Grades 9 through 12. Small 'self-catered college for students on campus at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. Jointly supported by the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, and the Diocese of Riverina.'

Resources
Queensland: Anglican Financial Services. 'ANFIN is a non-profit financial fund owned by the Anglican Church in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.'

Church History
A Brief History of the Early Years of the Society of the Holy Cross, by the Rev. Dr. Thomas Hightower, SSC.

England
Canterbury (Kilburn), St Mary (London)
Canterbury (West Hampstead), St James (London)
Southampton, Parish of North Stoneham and Bassett [All Saints; St Michael and All Angels; St Nicholas] (Winchester)

Retreat/conference centre
Edward King House (Lincoln) 'Within the overall mission of the Diocese of Lincoln, Edward King House exists to be a place of Christian hospitality for all who come to it. In particular, it offers a place where Christians can come to address the issues of their calling, as individuals and as a Church; where other individuals and groups can be resourced in pursuing their work and other interests, and where Church and world can meet, share and seek to collaborate on issues of significance.'

Episcopal Elections or Announcements
Episcopal Church in the USA
The Diocese of Rio Grande elected the Revd Dr. Jeffrey Steenson as its next bishop on the third ballot. Details here.

Essays
Leading “the Church Throughout the World”: Bishop Pierre Whalon writes about the dual roles -- local and global -- of bishops.

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Eames/Lambeth/Windsor report due 18 October. Bishop of Sydney supports Christian political parties. Dean of Sydney Cathedral in the news again. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

Seasonal
Santaland. Not a site on the specifically religious side of Christmas; rather it attempts to take you back before the age of games and provides plenty of history and sources for children's entertainment: Send a letter to Santa, read holiday stories, Find Christmas carols, lyrics, and arts and crafts. Find Christmas recipes and care for that holiday plant Santa gave you. Track Santa on Christmas Eve.

YuleLoveIt. The 'largest collection of free Christmas graphics on the web.' You may find these useful in your printed materials for Christmas, especially for the young.

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USA
Indiana: Indianapolis, Grace (Indianapolis)
Pennsylvania: Bloomfield, Seeds of Hope (Pittsburgh)
Virginia: Chesapeake, St Brides (Southern Virginia)

Schools
Mississippi: Piney Woods. The Piney Woods School. Private boarding school grades 9 through 12.

Vacancies Centre
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World
Cuba: Guantánamo, Parroquia Episcopal de Todos los Santos (Cuba)

Worth Noting
Anselm of Canterbury and his Theological Inheritance by Giles E. M. Gasper is reviewed this week in the Church Times by Dr Evans, Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge, who concludes that it's a technical book, yet with much for the general reader.

A Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality by Stephen Bates is reviewed in the Church Times by John Whale. 'Bates is the religion correspondent of The Guardian. In a well-built book, buttressed with quotes from all quarters, he sets out Evangelicalism’s advance and its causes.'

Week of 10 October 2004

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Australia
Queensland: Brisbane, Holy Spirit (Brisbane)
Tasmania: Launceston North, St John (Tasmania)

Resources
Anglican Cursillo of Australia

Church History
Living Stones: A Centennial History of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1889-1989.
By Neale Adams.

Pioneer Church Work in British Columbia: Being a Memoir of the Episcopate of Acton Windeyer Sillitoe
By H.W. Tucker (1899). Acton Windeyer Sillitoe (1840-1894) was the first Bishop of New Westminster, British Columbia.

The Story of W. J. E. Bennett, Founder of S. Barnabas', Pimlico and Vicar of Froome-Selwood And of His Part in the Oxford Church Movement of the Nineteenth Century. By F. Bennett. WJE Bennett (1804-1896) was a prominent ritualist whose services provoked riots at St Barnabas, Pimlico in 1850. He is acknowledged as the originator of the first parish magazine, The Old Church Porch, published from 1854.

Turning Points in My Life, by William Porcher DuBose (1912). William Porcher DuBose (1836-1918) was an American theologian, Civil War veteran and Dean of the School of Theology of the University of the South. This short book is an autobiographical look at his life and thought.

England
Egham Hythe, St Paul (Guildford)
Newbury, St John the Evangelist (Oxford)

Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
English proposal for male clergy enclave. Breakaway Los Angeles parishes try to nix lawsuits. Synod ends in Australia. Nigerian primate says US has created a new religion. Anglican Communion to have Deputy Secretary General. Counting down to release of Eames report. All this, and more, in the News Centre.

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USA
Arkansas: Conway, St Peter (Arkansas)
Arkansas: Little Rock, St Michael (Arkansas)
Arkansas: Van Buren, Trinity (Arkansas)
Utah: Cedar City, St Jude (Utah)
Utah: Tooele, St Barnabas (Utah)

Resources
Arkansas: Camp Mitchell (Arkansas) Camp and conference centre.

Vacancies Centre
Two new vacancies this week.

England: West Blatchington, St Peter (Chichester) Organist/choirmaster or mistress.
New Zealand: Lower Hutt, St James (Westminster) Director of Music.

For more information see our Vacancies Centre, where you'll also find links to every vacancies page we can find in the entire communion.

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Worth Noting
Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible, by James D. G. Dunn and John W. Rogerson. Reviewed by the Revd Robin Griffith-Jones, in the Church Times, who calls it 'a magisterial one-volume commentary ... of immense value'.

From Sex Pistols to Shadowmancer: Bob Smietana, writing in ChristianityToday, comments on the life of Graham Taylor, English priest, author, and former roadie for the Sex Pistols.

Trevor Huddleston: Turbulent priest, by Piers McGrandle, is reviewed in the Church Times. This is the second biography to be published since Huddleston's death in 1998.