Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Competition to Promote Communication Skills
The Church of Ireland Press Office has launched its annual magazine and website competition inviting entries from parish and diocesan editors from throughout the Church.
All entrants are being offered a place in one of two workshops to be run in Belfast and Dublin on print and website design with a particular focus on page layout, use of photographs, and access to databases. In addition, special prizes, sponsored by the Down, Dromore and Connor Diocesan Education Committee, will be awarded for entries which present good graphic design and editing skills.
The workshops will be run by Derek Kinnen, former Head of Learning Resources at Stranmillis University College, Belfast. He now manages his own company specialising in various IT applications, and is editor of the British Journal of Educational Technology.
The competition judges are the Revd Dr Bert Tosh, Chief Producer of Religious Programmes for BBC Northern Ireland, Mrs Rosalind Rogers, Head of School Communications in the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Mr Jonathan Martin of J. Martin Associates, and Mr Rodney Miller, a chartered designer.
Editors are invited to send two editions of their magazine, published between April 2003 and February 2004, to the Church of Ireland Press Office, 61 Donegal Street, Belfast BT1 2QH. Website editors should e-mail their website address to The Press Office. The closing date for the receipt of entries is 8 March 2004.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the lecture sermon ?On the Human Condition? will be delivered by the Revd Dr Nigel Biggar, who has recently taken up the post of Professor of Theology in Trinity in succession to Dr Sean Freyne. Professor Biggar was ordained in the Church of England in 1990 and has been Professor of Theology in the University of Leeds since 1999.
In the afternoon in St Anne?s Cathedral, Belfast, as part of the cathedral?s centenary celebrations, there will be a special service to acknowledge the contribution of the legal community to civic and community life. The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Brian Kerr, and the President of the Law Society, Mr John Pinkerton, will take part and the address will be given by one of the foremost members of the British judiciary, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, President of the Family Division of the High Court.
On Monday the speaker at the lunchtime healing service in St George?s Church, Belfast, will be the Methodist Chaplain of Queen?s University, the Revd Henry Keys. In the evening in Three Rock Rovers Hockey Club, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, the Past Choristers & Pupils Association of St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, will hold a table quiz beginning at 8.00 pm.
In the Church of Ireland Theological College, the Marsh Society will meet on Tuesday evening when the Revd Colin Coward will speak on ?On the Edge of the Church: Gay and Lesbians?. Mr Coward is a priest of the Church of England and a psychotherapist. He is Director of Changing Attitude, a network of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and straight members of the Anglican churches in Britain and Ireland.
The choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, has vacancies for lay clerks in each voice part - soprano, alto/counter-tenor, tenor and bass ? to commence in March 2004 or at a negotiated date. The salary is from 4000 euro. Auditions will be held on 28 February and 2 March. There are also opportunities, from September 2004, for choral scholarships, suitable for gap-year and university students. These are worth from 1500 euro. Full details are available from the Music Secretary (see http://www.cccdub.ie for contact details).
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