"The perfect resource for families, `The Anglican Family Prayer Book' helps parents and children pray together, Prayers for morning and evening, blessings, nighttime prayers, prayers for ordinary and special occasions, intercessory prayers, prayers of the Eucharist, and prayers for use during the special seasons of the Church year make this book a timeless treasure that families will use every day, and an heirloom to pass along to future generations". -- inside front cover.
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Common Prayer -- Praying through the Day -- Prayers for People and Occasions -- Prayers for the Eucharist -- Prayers for the Church Year -- Index of First Lines -- Notes.
Common Prayer section contains: What is Common Prayer ? -- Amen -- The Lord's Prayer -- The Doxology -- The Song of Mary (Magnificat) -- The Song of Zechariah (Benedictus Dominus Deus) -- A Prayer Attributed to St. Francis -- The Jesus Prayer -- The Breton Fishermen's Prayer -- A Sarum Prayer -- Psalm 23.
Praying Through the Day section contains: Ways of Praying Daily -- Morning and Evening Prayer -- Graces -- Blessings -- Bedtime Prayers -- Prayers for the Days of the Week.
Prayers for People and Occasions section contains: Types of Prayers -- For a Birthday -- On a Baptism Anniversary -- For the Care of Children -- For Young Persons -- For Parents -- For the Anniversary of a Marriage -- For the Blessing of a New Home -- Before an Exam -- For a Graduation -- For a Pet -- For a Guest -- For Travelers -- For Those Absent -- For Reconciliation in a Home -- For Someone Who Is Ill -- For Healing -- For Quiet Confidence -- A Prayer of Self-Dedication -- For the Diversity of Races and Cultures -- A Prayer of St. Chrysostom -- A Prayer before Worship -- A Prayer before Receiving Communion -- Litanies -- For Thanksgiving -- In Grief For Forgiveness -- The Holy Spirit -- The Cross.
Prayers for the Eucharist section contains: Teaching Children to Worship -- The Gloria -- The Kyrie -- The Trisagion -- The Salutation and the Collect of the Day -- The Creeds -- The Confession -- The Peace -- The Sursum Corda -- The Sanctus -- The Fraction Anthem -- The Postcommunion Prayer, Blessing, and Dismissal.
Prayers for the Church Year section contains: Faith Rituals Throughout the Year -- Advent -- Christmas -- Epiphany -- Lent -- Easter -- Ascension Day -- Pentecost -- All Hallow's Eve -- All Saints' Day -- Saints' Days -- Seasonal Greetings -- A Calendar of Seasons and Holy Days.
"Adapted from the Third Edition, 1993, published by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles," -- verso of t.-p.
"Issues of sexuality deeply touch all our lives, both personally and as communities. Sometimes the issues are not easy to talk about. This paper is written to help us think and talk to each other. It seeks to raises some major concerns for which there are often times no simple or easily agreed upon answers. .... I have tried to present the issues in reasonable brevity so that my reflections might be useful for discussion groups and classes where people wish to share their own experiences and insights". -- Preface.
Contents: Preface -- Christian discipleship and sexuality -- A Way of Expressing Love -- Selfishness and Cruelty -- Guidance and Limitation -- Contemporary Changes and Questions -- More Than the Forces of Nature -- Morality and Challenge -- Marriage -- Families and Community --Divorce -- Sexual Intimacy Before Marriage -- Sexual Intimacy and the Formerly Married -- Sexual Intimacy of Single People After the Reproductive Years -- Gay and Lesbian Sexuality -- Celibacy -- Contraception -- Abortion -- New Ways of Conception and Child Bearing -- Sex Education -- Education and Sexual Abuse -- Pornography -- Facing These Issues in Love -- A Study Guide for Christian Discipleship and Sexuality.
"Adapted from the Third Edition, 1993, published by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles," -- verso of t.-p.
"Issues of sexuality deeply touch all our lives, both personally and as communities. Sometimes the issues are not easy to talk about. This paper is written to help us think and talk to each other. It seeks to raises some major concerns for which there are often times no simple or easily agreed upon answers. .... I have tried to present the issues in reasonable brevity so that my reflections might be useful for discussion groups and classes where people wish to share their own experiences and insights". -- Preface.
Contents: Preface -- Christian discipleship and sexuality -- A Way of Expressing Love -- Selfishness and Cruelty -- Guidance and Limitation -- Contemporary Changes and Questions -- More Than the Forces of Nature -- Morality and Challenge -- Marriage -- Families and Community --Divorce -- Sexual Intimacy Before Marriage -- Sexual Intimacy and the Formerly Married -- Sexual Intimacy of Single People After the Reproductive Years -- Gay and Lesbian Sexuality -- Celibacy -- Contraception -- Abortion -- New Ways of Conception and Child Bearing -- Sex Education -- Education and Sexual Abuse -- Pornography -- Facing These Issues in Love -- A Study Guide for Christian Discipleship and Sexuality.
"`To ask why Christians live together,' writes Tom Breidenthal, `to ask what a Christian household is and what kind of housekeeping Christian faith inspires'. In the church today we find many different kinds of households: married couples with and without children, single parents, same-sex couples, monastic communities, people living alone. In constructing a theology of the Christian household Breidenthal begins with the New Testament texts on family and goes on to develop criteria by which we can tell the difference between households that are holy, households that fall short of holiness, and households whose basic premises rule out any possibility of holiness. He thus sheds considerable light on the essential and vexing questions of our time concerning intimacy, sexuality, community, childrearing, and the sanctifying nearness of others". -- back cover.
Contents: Why Live Together ? -- Jesus and the Embrace of Nearness -- Redeeming the Familiar -- The Patriarchal Household -- Care in the Christian Household -- Familiar Discipline and the Moral Life -- Same-Sex Unions -- The Gift and Heritage of Children -- Epilogue.
The Family in contemporary society : the report of a group convened at the behest of the Archbishop of Canterbury with appended reports from the U.S.A., Canada and India
"First published in 1958 by S.P.C.K., Holy Trinity Church, Marylebon Road, London N.W.1. Printed in Great Britain by The Talbot Press (S.P.C.K.), Saffron Walden, Essex. Copyright The Trustees of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Report of a group chaired by the Rev. Canon M.A.C. Warren.
"The Report has been prepared by a Group convened by the Church of England Moral Welfare Council at the behest of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Group met for four whole days, and the theological members for two days more; there were other consultations between members, and an extensive exchange of papers. The signed Report is unanimous. The papers in Appendix 1 were prepared for the use of the Group .... Members of the Group are greatly indebted to Dr. Gertrude Willoughby for Chapters 1 to 8 in Appendix 1, the drafting of which involved a great deal of work in a very short time. Appendix 2 was prepared by the Department of Christian Social Relations of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S.A., at the request of the Presiding Bishop .... The first draft of the manuscript was written by Mrs. Muriel S. Webb, on the basis of consultations .... Appendix 3 was prepared by the Department of Christian Social Service of the Anglican Church of Canada. Appendix 4 is a Report prepared by a Special Committee appointed by the Metropolitan of the Church of India, Burma, Pakistan, and Ceylon, as requested by the Episcopal Synod of that Church. All the above material has been prepared for the use of the Lambeth Conference, 1958". -- Note, p. vii.
"Our subject was given to us with two sub-titles: 'The Family in Contemporary Society: (a) Problems of Population; (b) Effects of Rapid Social Change on Family Life'. It became clear to us in discussion that the sub-sections are not separable: the demographic factor -- that is, the number and density of population, and its distribution by age and sex -- is one of the essential determinants of economic and social conditions; demographic change necessarily involves economic and social changes, and economic and social changes are never unrelated to the population structure. The family in involved at every point, casually in creating (or arresting) the population change, consequentially in the economic and social changes which follow". -- The Report, pp. 1-2.
Contents: Note -- Members of the Group Convened at the Behest of the Archbishop of Canterbury -- The Report -- Appendix 1: An Assessment and Theological Consideration of the Facts Upon Which the Report is Based -- Appendix 2: The Family in the United States -- Appendix 3: The Family and Modern Society in Canada, 1957 -- Appendix 4: Family Planning in India.
Report section divided into sub-sections: Introduction -- Population -- Economic and Industrial Development -- The Reduction of Mortality -- Family Planning -- Social Change -- Related Questions of Church Discipline.
Contents of Appendix 1:An Assessment and Theological Consideration of the Facts Upon Which the Report is Based: Introductory Survey: The Inter-relation of Population, Resources, and Urbanization -- India -- The West Indies and Mauritius -- Africa -- Egypt and the Middle East -- Europe and Great Britain -- Family Planning Policies -- Some Theological Considerations -- An Essay in Crusoe Economics.
Contents of Appendix 2: The Family in the United States: Changed Function of the Home -- Social and Economic Trends affecting the Family -- Emerging Family Patterns -- Current Problems in American Family Life -- The Status of the Church in Relation to the American Family -- Addendum: Some Theological Questions.
Contents of Appendix 3: The Family and Modern Society in Canada, 1957: Population Trends -- Industrialization and the Family -- Bibliography.
Contents of Appendix 4: Family Planning in India: The Rate of Increase in the Population -- Christian Marriage -- Practical Recommendations.
"Provided by Province VII's Committee on The Study of Human Sexuality : The Rt. Rev. William E. Smalley, The Rev. Rayford B. High, Jr. [and] Cynthia H. Schwab".
"Designed by Consultant/Trainers Southwest: Project Team: The Rev. Clifford S. Waller, The Rev. Eleanor R. Hill [and] The Rev. Alfred E. Persons".
Includes bibliographical references.
Bibliography: pp. 99-101.
Contents: Leader's Preparation -- Session I [Sexuality and Being Truly Human] -- Session II [Sexuality and the Family] -- Session III [Sexuality and the Social Order] -- Session IV [Sexuality and the Church] -- Session V [Developing a Vision].
OTCH copy donated by Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Toronto. Task Force on Gays and Lesbians in the Church.
The Christmas 2000 issue of the International Anglican Family Network discusses how an increasing number of "changes such as a widening gap between poverty and affluence, global communications and increasing secularism, all affect families and their faith." "In many parts of Africa and in the Western world, faith used to be nurtured in the family and in society ... Times change. Now, the transmission and nurturing of faith has to be worked for in a range of ways: by parents, by church evangelism, by modern communications such as the internet". Article includes reports from 12 different countries.
Issue of IAFN Newsletter included as part of the Anglican World for Advent 2001. An editorial and series of short reports from different agencies and countries about family breakdown. "The articles in this newsletter tell of increased marriage and relationship breakdown, more children on the streets, more despair fuelling alcohol and drug abuse. Many refer to the root causes of poverty, the AIDS pandemic, and, of course, war ... But the picture is not all bleak. An article from Canada points out that a marriage breakdown may, in some cases, represent a new start, free from hidden violence and abuse. Many of the articles tell of vigorous efforts being made by churches and projects from all over the Anglican Communion to help the casualties of family breakdown".