Anglican Parish of THE ROCK Caversham Saint Peter, Dunedin, New Zealand. November, 2012 - Advent Change at Canterbury Parish Contacts: VICAR: 1 104 105 Father Hugh Bowron, The Vicarage, 57 Baker St., Caversham, Dunedin, New .Zealand 9012. Telephone: (03) 455 3961 Email: [email protected] CHURCH WARDENS: Vicar’s Warden: AD597 : St Augustine AD2002 : Rowan Williams AD2013 : Justin Welby IMAGE:: HTTP://BRITISHSTUDIES.PBWORKS.COM IMAGE: IMAGE: Tubby Hopkins HTTP://WWW.ARCHBISHOPOFCANTERBURY.ORG/ HTTP://WWW.ARCHBISHOPOFCANTERBURY.ORG/ Telephone: (03) 455-3613 Email: VicarsWarden Roll call of history Assessing Rowan The new man @stpeterscaversham.org.nz Page 5 This page Page 5 People’s Warden: Church historians looking back might well focus on Assessing Rowan three such events – the consecration of Gene Joy Henderson Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, the Telephone: (03) 456-1141 By The Vicar Jeffrey Johns affair in which Rowan was humiliatingly obliged to withdraw an offer of a VESTRY SECRETARY: bishopric because of the conservative opposition Heather Brooks s Rowan Williams began his ministry as to that appointment, and the storm of public Telephone: (03) 481-1916 Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002 he criticism that came his way for suggesting in a Email: Vestry had a lot going for him. His reputation lecture that in certain limited situations Sharia law @stpeterscaversham.org.nz A for intellectual brilliance, theological courts might be allowed to adjudicate for English depth, spiritual maturity, and evident holiness of Muslim communities. DIRECTOR OF MUSIC life had won him a wide following. There was a AND PARISH CENTRE MANAGER: general expectation that here at last was an Behind the presenting symptoms of passionate David Hoskins Archbishop who might capture the interest of an disagreement in the Church about gay Telephone: (03) 455-7537 educated public which had lost touch with partnerships, lay the deeper issues of what are the Email: ParishCentre organised religion, but which might be open to a legitimate limits of diversity for belief and ethical practice in the Anglican world, to what extent @stpeterscaversham.org.nz persuasive advocate for it; one who could call on Anglicans had a sufficient doctrine of authority to an impressive array of resources to put his case. FINANCE: make their Church work, and how the world wide If the times had been more peaceable in the Anglican family could live together by usefully Danielle Harrison Anglican world, perhaps he would have had an relating the local Church to the universal Church. Telephone: (03) 455-0759 opportunity to do and be all of this. But as George Theologically Rowan could see all sides of the Email: Finance Bush found out, often a modern leader’s tenure of issues, but he was not temperamentally suited to @stpeterscaversham.org.nz office is defined by unpredictable events that leave act effectively to deal with them. He lacked the him adrift in a sea of troubles, obliged to grapple USERS IN THE PARISH CENTRE: (Continued on page 8) with an unpleasant agenda not of his own making. Telephone: (03) 455-3851 www.stpeterscaversham.org.nz Page 2 November, 2012—Advent The Rock Margaret TTHEHE CCAVERSHAMAVERSHAM LLECTURESECTURES Finnie RIP Father Hugh Bowron—Saint Peter’s Parish Centre A Friendship Group Tribute Tuesday 14 December, 2pm and again at 7.30pm By Mary Barton The Strange, Wonderful and Bleak Theological World of t is with sadness we note the passing of Margaret Finnie. Rowan Williams She was a well-respected and I supportive member of the former n the month intriguing sources. In finding out where he Ladies’ Guild for many years. She loved her that Rowan Yet he is a paradoxical is coming from we shall garden and brought along home-grown Williams learn something about vegetables for our sales tables and the fair figure, who has steps down the philosopher produce stall. I infuriated liberals by as Archbishop of Wittgenstein, the Margaret was a very friendly lady with a appearing to backtrack lovely smile. Canterbury it is timely on his former support Russian Orthodox Members attended her service on 16 to take a look at the for partnered clergy thinkers Sergii November. theological sources gay relationships, and Bulgakov, Fyodor that have informed his Dostoevsky, and has frustrated leadership of the conservatives for his especially Vladimir Anglican Communion. apparent reluctance to Lossky, we shall ACC? He is a person of deep make any major become acquainted scholarship, who with Carmelite rchbishop Rowan Williams’ recent decisions about appears to have read Communion dividing spirituality, especially visit to New Zealand was primarily everything, and is one that of St John of the to attend a meeting of the issues. We shall Anglican Consultative Council, of the most highly discover that there are Cross, we shall A respected public discover something of but many of us are unfamiliar with that ACC. theological reasons for intellectuals in Britain, the astringent moral The purpose of the ACC is described on its web this. At a more which is why he is vision of Donald site (http://www.anglicancommunion.org/ mundane level others communion/acc/) as being “to facilitate the co- being welcomed into have wondered about MacKinnon, and will operative work of the churches of the Anglican his new role as Master round it off with the Communion, exchange information between the his reluctance to trim, of Magdalene College, or shave off his beard Hegelianism of the Provinces and churches, and help to co- Cambridge. A poet, as Jewish philosopher ordinate common action”. – apparently he takes a well as a theologian, Russian Orthodox Gillian Rose, whom The ACC meets every two or three years in he is also a person of Rowan Williams different parts of the world. approach to this evident holiness of life, personal appearance befriended shortly This year’s meeting is summarised by The whose spirituality is fed issue. before her death. Vicar in The Pebble of 4 November. from a variety of Letters Ask The Vicar Ask The Vestry For answers to questions doctrinal, spiritual and liturgical. Questions about the secular life and fabric of the parish The Rock welcomes letters to the Editor. Letters should may be: be no more than 150 words in length and are subject to Write to: Ask The Vicar, selection and, if selected, to editing for length and house 57 Baker Street, Posted to : Ask The Vestry, style. Letters may be : Caversham, c/- The Vicarage, 57 Baker Street, Dunedin, N.Z. 9012 Caversham, Posted to : The Editor of The Rock, Or email: Dunedin, N.Z. 9012 c/- The Vicarage, 57 Baker Street, Caversham, [email protected] Emailed to: Dunedin, N.Z. 9012 [email protected] Emailed to: [email protected] Saint Peter’s Caversham The Rock November, 2012—Advent Page 3 More Maritime Medicine The further perils of medicine at sea. By Ian Condie n the 1960’s British ship owners A woman doctor took one lecture but she gave could ignore the advance of the impression she did not think mere men Feminism no longer. Women were should be allowed to delve into purely female I going to sea and it was felt that the matters, particularly the sort of men who traditional medical approach would have to were obviously the type her mother had change. The panacea of a swig of Black warned her about. Draught would not suffice for such The other star was Sister “Rachel”. She was complicated and delicate creatures. It was thought to have studied under Florence therefore decided to send suitably steady Nightingale and taught Practical Nursing. married officers to Liverpool to attend a She gave her last lecture, a ferocious course in gynaecology and obstetrics. exposition of the evils of smoking, with her In charge was the Senior Tutor Sister of the nicotine stained fingers clasped on the desk area, a splendid woman who congratulated top before she joined the class for morning the course on being the first in which nobody tea and cigarettes. had fainted during the film of childbirth. Her Students returned to their ships no less advice about coping with the father if he was reluctant to welcome women as shipmates— aboard was -“Get him to keep on boiling lots with the warm exceptions of the Sister Tutor of water - it’ll keep him out of the way.” Florence Nightingale GRAPHIC: HISTORYANDWOMEN.COM and her staff. Nutritious WhenNut not busy being a parishionerritious of Saint Peter’s, Dr Alexandra Chisholm works with nuts. In the first of a series of articles, she introduces the subject of her research. By Alex Chisholm uts have been a part of the human diet since earliest times. Almonds and pistachios are mentioned in Genesis (43:11) as amongst the best products of the N land, and the nuts mentioned in Songs (6:11) may be walnuts. Archeological excavations of a 10,000-year-old village in Eastern Turkey uncovered a society with an economy based on harvesting almonds and pistachios. Nuts were popular as a predictable food source that could be stored through long winters, thus providing a stable food supply throughout the year. Nuts are a convenient “package” of healthy fats, protein, fibre, minerals and vitamins. Recent research has uncovered specific health benefits. A large study of 31,208 Adventists in California compared diet records collected over many years with heart disease, in individuals. The researchers found that nuts improved cardiovascular risk factors and had a cardio-protective effect when they compared people who consumed nuts frequently (more than four times per week) with those who consumed nuts less than once per week. In this group the health promoting effects of eating nuts persisted into old age.