Resources and Links
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An annotated list of Anglican and other
Christian resources on the Internet to help you find what
you are looking for. Please email us if
you know of other resouces that you think we should link
to.
A short guide to some relevant mailing lists and usenet
newsgroups.
Anglicans
Online is a comprehensive site containing the latest news
from around the Anglican Communion, and links to many
resources.
A comprehensive list of Christian
resources on the Internet at CrossSearch
| Official and unofficial home pages for national and international Anglican bodies |
The
International Anglican
Domain Naming Committee maintains the domain anglican.org
in trust for the Anglican Communion. They maintain a list
of all dioceses in the Anglican Communion with links
to all those who have web pages. Unallocated domain names
are available free of charge to official representatives
of a diocese. See the page Using the
ANGLICAN.ORG domain for details.
The
Society of
Archbishop Justus operates the Internet server which
administers this. (The Society also host the Ely Diocesan web
site.)
Anglicans OnLine! -- a
superb set of pages reflecting the international nature of the
Anglican Communion. These pages are the first place to visit
for up-to-date Anglican news from around the world, together
with a very comprehensive set of links to other Anglican and
related pages.
Two
other useful sites are maintained by the Anglican
Communion Office in London, and the Church of
England.
Following the Porvoo Agreement the Church of
England is now a member of the Porvoo
Communion. Some other member churches are The Church
of Sweden, the Church of
Norway, The
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, and the Church of Iceland, as well
as the Church of
Ireland and the Church in
Wales.
The Church of
Denmark did not ratify the Porvoo Agreement.
The Diocese of Ely is linked in partnership and prayer with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the North Elbe [Nordelbishe Ev-Luth. Kirche or NEK].
Recent
press releases from the Anglican world, as well as
archives of older releases, are available from the Anglican Communion News
Service in London, and from the Episcopal News
Service in New York.
| Christian and other home pages in the Cambridge area. |
The
home page of the University of
Cambridge is a useful starting point for local people. You
can search for the address of anyone at the University, or
consult rail timetables, or browse the Cambridge University
Press catalogue. Many of the Colleges and Departments have
their own home pages too. You can access the Cambridge
University Library catalogue.
Anglia Polytechnic
University also has a very useful set of pages, including
Information
about Cambridge.
Anglia hosts a home page for wintercomfort,
a local charity providing help and shelter for the
homeless in Cambridge.
The
local
weather forecast can be found on the BBC web site.
Cambridge is also the home of the first Emmaus Community for the
homeless in the UK.
Tyndale House
home page. Tyndale House is a Biblical Studies Research
Library in Cambridge.
For
non-Anglican churches in the area: the Eastern
Province of the United Reformed Church includes most
of the area of the Diocese; Cambridge Community Church
is an evangelical, charismatic Christian church based in
Cambridge.
Philip &
Rosalind Lund, Theological Booksellers: mail order
new and secondhand (used) booksellers sending out 2 to 3
catalogues a month in their specialized fields.
SPCK Online: online version
of the religious bookshop which has a branch in Cambridge
The
Cambridge bookseller Heffers
now have an extensive set of pages. You can browse their
bookshelves, search for titles, authors, etc, and order
books from anywhere in the world.
The
Cambridge Online
City project was launched on 29 January 1996. Online
City "brings free access to the Internet at a
variety of public places in Cambridge as well as access
to information about Cambridge from its very own Web
site."
Cambridge Free Net originally
aimed to provide extremely low cost Internet access for people
in Cambridge. With the advent of free ISPs, they have changed
their goals somewhat.
| Local Government |
Huntingdonshire District
Council
King's Lynn and
West Norfolk Borough Council
South Cambridgeshire
District Council
| Local Media |
Q103FM Radio for
Cambridge and Newmarket
Ben
Aldhouse's East
Cambridgeshire On Line News shows how an on-line
local newspaper can help the community.
| Liturgy |
An Anglican
Liturgical Library contains much useful material,
including texts from the ASB and the forthcoming
Common Worship, together with Celebrating
Common Prayer, and links to Anglican and other
liturgical material available on the internet.
The
Church of England is now publishing the definitive texts of
new liturgical material as it is authorized at its
Common
Worship web site.
Simon Kershaw has compiled an unofficial calendar of holy
people associated with the Diocese of Ely called
Singing the
Song, including collects, readings and biographical
notes.
| Miscellany: those that didn't fit elsewhere |
Christian Aid
Week 2004: Christian Aid has launched a dedicated website
for Christian Aid Week 2004.
Christians on the Internet,
or COIN, exists to encourage Christians in Britain and
Ireland to join and make use of the Internet, and through
those individuals to encourage the various churches they
belong to to do the same. It can offer a whole range of
skills and services, or direct you at others who can
offer them.
Church House Bookshop,
one of the largest Christian bookshops in the UK, carries over
10,000 religious titles including the full range of books
published by Church
House Publishing, the official publishing imprint of the
Church of England. International mail order by email is
supported.
The
Church Times is
a weekly paper covering events in the Church of England
and elsewhere.
The
Centre for the Study of
Jewish-Christian Relations at Wesley House in Cambridge
offers courses accredited through Anglia Polytechnic
University in Jewish-Christian Relations.
The Wire An
ecumenical communications periodical containing news, reviews,
graphics, etc.
