Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 16 October 2010
New Issue of Search
A new issue of the Church of Ireland journal, Search, edited by the Revd Dr Virginia Kennerley, is now available.
Decision time for the Anglican Covenant is imminent. Next month the Church of England General Synod will vote on the matter and the Church of Ireland will vote next May. Whichever way the decision goes there will be serious results and in an effort to stimulate serious debate on the matter, especially among those who will vote on it in May, Search is running an article against the Covenant by Jonathan Clatworthy, General Secretary of the Modern Church, in this issue, to be followed by one by Archbishop John Neill in favour in the next. It is also hoped to run a colloquium in TCD in March to consider the way forward.
This issue also includes articles on inter-faith dialogue and its relationship to Christian witness. Jeff Bailey, from the Centre for Social Justice in London, offers an account of the practice of scriptural reasoning, in which members of the three Abrahamic faiths gather together to share insights into their scriptures, in such away that mutual understanding and respect is fostered. In the same area, Professor Linda Hogan, of the ISE, writes of new developments in the School in the area of inter-cultural as well as inter-faith encounter – a crucial distinction in our world today.
Closer to home, Dr Anne Lodge, Principal of CICE, and the Very Revd Dermot Dunne, Dean of Christ Church, share some research on the experience and influence of Roman Catholic converts in the Church of Ireland, while the Revd Livingstone Thompson outlines the challenge to the Irish churches of the growing migrant-led Pentecostal churches, chiefly those of African origin. The Revd Donald Ker, last year’s president of the Methodist Church in Ireland, outlines recent progress in agreement between Methodists and the Church of Ireland on the interchangeability of ministries – another subject for consideration at General Synod and the Methodist Conference.
www.searchjournal.ireland.anglican.org
Today (Saturday) the Ninth Dublin Symposium on Jonathan Swift will be held in St Patrick’s Deanery, Upper Kevin Street, Dublin 8. Speakers from Ireland and the USA will address the theme ‘Swift’s Economics’ marking the 290th anniversary of the publication of The Universal Use of Irish Manufacture. Tomorrow (Sunday) the annual service in commemoration of Swift will be held in St Patrick’s Cathedral at 3.30pm when the address will be given by Dr Don Thornhill, formerly Chairman of the HSE
Today (Saturday) in Christ Church Cathedral and tomorrow (Sunday) in St Patrick’s Cathedral the festival to commemorate the Dublin born composer, Sir Charles Villliers Stanford, continues with lectures, recitals and liturgies to Stanford settings.
www.thestanfordsociety.org
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning Canon Patrick Comerford, Director of Spiritual Formation in CITI will preach at the Harvest Thanksgiving in St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny. In the afternoon the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at a Ministry of Healing Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral at 3.30pm while at 7.30pm there will be a Songs of Praise service in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Trim.
On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings the Dublin & Glendalough Diocesan Synod will be held in Taney parish centre. On Wednesday the Cashel, Ossory & Ferns Synod will meet in Wexford and on Thursday the Derry & Raphoe Synod will be held in Clooney parish hall.
On Thursday evening in Belvedere House, Mullingar, the Danish art historian, Hanne Gray, will give a talk on the Vikings in aid of the Kilbixy church roof restoration project.
Further information may be had at 044 934 9060.