Week
of 4 January 2009
Africa
Dioceses
Mauritius: Diocese of Mauritius http://mauritius.anglican.org [website in English and French]
Australia
Schools and Education
Bacchus Marsh Grammar School: Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. K-12 school located near Melbourne.
Book
Reviews
Douglas Dales reviews Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps for a Fulfilling Life, by Christopher
Jamison.
Martin Warner reviews The Christian Vision of God, by Alister McGrath
and God: The Short Version, by Peter Lundstrom.
Andrew Davison reviews Robert B. Stewart's The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue with several other related titles.
Canada
Resources
Lay Readers' Association of the Diocese of Montréal / L'Association des Lecteurs laïcs du diocèse de Montréal
Lay Readers Association, Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
England
Parishes
Godrevy Team Ministry [St Winnear, Gwinear; St Gothians, Gwithian; St Elwyn, Hayle; St Felicitas and St Piala, Phillack; St Erth, St Erth] (Truro)
Saltash, St Nicholas and St Faith (Truro)
Saltash, St Stephen (Truro)
Japan
Resources
Professor Natori Takao of St Margaret's University, Kyoto, has assembled this substantial collection of historical material (in Japanese only) on Anglican missionaries in Meiji period (1867-1912) Japan. Included are a number of articles on early figures such as Channing Moore Williams and Edward Bickersteth.
Letters
to Anglicans Online
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a read. Write a letter of your own to us for possible
publication.
New
Zealand
Resources
Wellington Diocesan Anglican Cursillo. 'The movement offers a method by which our relationship with God may be developed, lived out with the support of other Christians, and used by God to change the world about us.'
News
Centre
Pipe organ concert in Bangalore. Ballarat priests insist their bishop must
go. Profile of an unretired priest in Barbados. Bishops making statements.
Women bishops in Australia want male authority. 'Women in the Episcopate'
draft published by C of E. All this, and more, in the News Centre.
Not
in the Communion
The Universal Anglican Church: 'a truly contemporary Church that blends the best of historic Christianity with practices and theology firmly rooted in the 21st Century. Our clergy are from diverse backgrounds, and our ministries reflect that diversity. Among those ministries are parishes, counseling ministries, prison ministries, healing ministries, religious orders, and homeless ministries. We believe that our ministries should serve the needs of the communities in which they reside, and to accomplish that we allow those ministries the freedom to design programs that meet those needs.'
sermons4layreaders.com: 'Many of our Continuing Anglican churches presently lack a resident priest, and must perforce be ministered to by Lay Readers, who, of course, cannot celebrate the Eucharist, and are not authorized to conduct the AnteCommunion, and thus will lead Morning or Evening Prayer. Since Lay Readers are not authorized to preach sermons of their own composition, there is a need for preauthorized homilies they can read. Since Morning and Evening Prayer do not use the same lectionary as does the Eucharist, it seems appropriate that there be homilies based on the lessons actually read. I was invited to prepare a series of such addresses, and the following are my humble attempt to fill that request.'
South Africa
Parishes
Weltevreden, St Michael and All Angels (Johannesburg)
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USA
Parishes
Florida: Miami (West Kendall), St Luke the Physician (Southwest Florida)
Resources
Anglican Centre in Rome. The 2009 programme of courses held in Rome at the Anglican
Centre for online perusal.
Communications Training from the Church of England. 'Ever wished that more people knew about your church or organisation and the good things that it does? Modern media means your message can go straight to where people are — 24 hours a day... We design our training so it is tailor made to your requirements. Whether it's radio or TV interviews, giving your public speaking an audit, or getting to grips with the web, we have the insights that will help.'
Idaho Episcopal Foundation. 'an independent non-profit corporation whose mission is to advise and assist the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho and its parishes in attracting private financial support to aid in the achievement of Diocesan and/or parish goals, and to manage the Foundation assets for the maximum benefit of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho and its parishes.'
Vacancies
Centre
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a position? Check our Vacancies Centre as well as scan vacancy
pages on diocesan web sites throughout the communion.
World
Parishes
Bahamas: Andros Island, Parish of St Stephen, Central Andros [St Bartholomew, Behring Point; St Peter, Bowen Sound; St Paul, Calabash Bay; St Stephen, Fresh Creek; St Faith, Staniard Creek] (The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands)
Bahamas: Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama, St Stephen (The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands)
Resources
Programme Activity Review Accompaniment Monitoring, Church of North India: 'a tool which enables the diocesan partners to share their activities with CNI Resource Centers for Social Action and [the Synodical Board of Social Services]. This is a web based activity sharing tool where each DBSS can enter data related to a planned activity at this stage.'
Worth
Noting
Dancing in time to a divinely ordained rhythm of life: Geoffrey Rowell writes for the Times (London). 'What is revealed is the God of unconditional love. Jesus, the one who reveals him, is the way, the truth and the life, but it is part of that amazing grace that Jesus opens up for us the treasures of other religions, and the treasures of all Creatures who long for unconditional love — to receive it and to give it. That is the dance to the music of time, because it is the dance of divine and eternal love.'
A Liturgical Christmas: Ferdinand von Prondzynski (President of Dublin City University) writes for Thinking Anglicans at the end of Christmastide.' Maybe I am just too old-fashioned. Or maybe, we are losing our way just a little.'
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