Week of 11 May 2008
Africa
Resources
Family Life Education Programme: 'The Family Life Education Programme (FLEP) is programme
based in Southern Uganda, in the Diocese of Busoga. Its mission is to improve the health and welfare of the people of the Busoga region,
and this is achieved through a variety of health and social programmes.'
Australia
Schools and Education
Beaconhills College. Berwick, Victoria. High School in the Diocese of Melbourne.
An independent school operated by three parishes: two Anglican, one Uniting Church.
Book Reviews
Stephen Platten reviews Ecumenical Reception: Its Challenge and Opportunity, by
William G. Rusch and Rome and Canterbury: The Elusive Search for Unity, by Mary Reath.
Sharing the Blessing: Overcoming Poverty and Working for Justice,
by Kathy Galloway, reviewed by John Armson.
James Ussher: Theology, History and Politics in Early-modern Ireland
and England, by Alan Ford, reviewed by Judith Maltby.
Discussion
boards
The Anglican Examiner: An online forum devoted to religion and public affairs from an
Anglican perspective.
England
Parishes
Dorking, St John the Baptist, Capel (Guildford)
Resources
ACORA Link. Archbishops' Commission on Rural Areas (Faith in the Countryside) Chichester
Branch. This website is updated with some frequency, and it provides a good amount of information on 'Recording - Informing - Challenging
- Celebrating the Rural Church'.
Events
England: Leighton Buzzard, 24 May 2008: Community
of the Resurrection Companions Day: The Emmaus Road in the 21st Century
'It has been a long tradition for the Community of the Resurrection to hold an annual day for Companions, Associates, and Friends. Anyone
interested in the work of the Community and Friends are also welcome. The superior and a number of members of the Community will also
be present.' For more information please contact kevinmalden@yahoo.co.uk or write to CCR, 7 Prae Close, St Albans, Herts, AL3 4SF, United
Kingdom.
England: Durham, 9 July 2008: English
Cathedral Music: The Long Nineteenth Century to the Present
'This study day will consider the English cathedral music tradition from the long nineteenth century to the present, especially explorations
of its qualities as a musical tradition and its unique place in both national and religious identity. The term 'English Cathedral music'
embraces music performed by all heirs to the tradition, including college chapel choirs and other choral ensembles, both here and abroad,
that come within its influence.' We wish we could attend.
Ireland
Parishes
Diamond Grange, St Paul (Armagh)
Milltown, St Andrew (Armagh)
Letters to Anglicans Online
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News Centre
Fewer conservatives to boycott Lambeth. Two new bishops in Uganda. Church of Nigeria formally bans polygamy. Canadian court rules for
Diocese of Niagara. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
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USA
Parishes
Illinois: LaSalle County Episcopal Ministry [Christ Church, Ottawa; St Andrew, Farm Ridge; St
Paul, LaSalle; Christ Church, Streator] (Chicago)
Pennsylvania: Somerset, St Francis-in-the-Fields (Pittsburgh)
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.
USA: St Andrew, Wellesley (Massachusetts) Music Director
/ Organist.
For more information on this and other listings, see our Vacancies Centre. Also scan
vacancy pages on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.
World
Parishes
Brazil: São Luís do Maranhão, Ponto Missionário
em São Luís do Maranhão (Recife)
Worth Noting
The celestial fire that brings us new life and inspiration:
Bishop Geoffrey Rowell writes in The Times (London). 'Our calling is to "set love in order”, to be shaped and ordered,
we might say, by the internet of the Spirit, the Lord and the Giver of life, who "alone can order the unruly wills and passions
of sinful men”. And that grace and that life is at the heart of the Church’s being, and of what it is to be human, and so
at Pentecost we pray: 'Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, and lighten with celestial fire!" for "the Spirit of the Lord has
filled the whole world. Alleluia!" [Amen—Ed.]
Trinity
Sunday resources: Our friends at Full Homely Divinity have posted a characteristically
fine collection about hymns and customs connected with Trinity Sunday. Mark your calendars! (If you have not completed your celebration
of Whitsunday, some helpful resources are available here.)
We
condemn torture, rape - anything that uses another’s body for our own purpose - Shouldn’t we show embryos similar respect?:
The Archbishop of Canterbury writes in The Daily Mail on the House of Commons debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology
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