Useful Resources from the Church of England

The Church of England occasionally provides some useful resources for themed services and events for parishioners to use at church.

Look up the following, for example, which are related to upcoming events in 2012.

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 2012 – information on Big Jubilee Lunch and national Big Jubilee Thank You

2012 Olympics – understand how the Church of England is engaging with the event. Further, access these useful links to find out how an individual can contribute during the sporting event.

Valentine’s Day

Father’s Day

Money and debt

Awareness Sunday’s resources for the tenth anniversary of 9/11

Church Website Design

Interested in Church Website Design services?

Here are several resources for you to find help on church website design. This is a carefully compiled list from the Net.

One of the UK’s Leading Church Website Provider

Church Website Design Project

UK Church Websites

Directory of UK church website companies

Church Website Design Assess and improve your website to reach outsiders

Church websites and Charity websites

Look up this compilation of 50 of the Best Church Website Designs

Anglican Church Studies

If you are interested in any or all aspects of the Anglican Church, you will be happy to access more related information. There are plenty of places where Anglican Church studies are undertaken. Here is a listing of some of the more popular centres of study.

Centre for Anglican Studies of the Canterbury Christ Church University

Bibles, Concordances, Bible Search, and other bible-related resources from AnglicansOnline. You will also find information on online texts, cross-references, scholarship, links and commentary.

Study Program in World Anglicanism of the Regent College (inpartnership with the University of Oxford, UK)

Outside the UK -

Anglican Studies Programme at the College of St John the Evangelist, Auckland

Center for Anglican Communion Studies at Virginia Theological Seminary, Virginia

The Church of England – Resources

Did you know that the Church of England is divided into 44 dioceses? Of these, 42 are located in England; one is the Diocese of Sodor and Man. The Diocese in Europe covers other countries. To learn more about what each diocese contains, look up England by Region page, or use the Anglicans online search.

Here are other pieces of information that you can find about the Church of England, apart from details of the dioceses.

  • History
  • Structure
  • Facts and Stats
  • Buildings
  • Work with other churches
  • Work with other faiths

Church of England News

For the latest Church-related news from the UK, you can look up several sources.

- The Church of England Newspaper, the original church newspaper and one of the oldest newspapers in the world, dating back to 1828.

- The Church of England’s Media Centre

- The Church Times, founded in 1863, claimed to be the world’s leading Anglican weekly newspaper.

- The British Church Newspaper, a fortnightly, non-denominational, Protestant and Reformed newspaper founded in 2002.

More Anglican Church Resources

If you are looking for information related to the Anglican Church, here’s a selected listing of resources on the Web.

Church of England / Anglican Churches in All local areas, compiled by East Sussex Community Information Service (ESCIS).

Google directory on Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Denominations, Anglican, Church of England (no longer available)

Anglican Church Music – Reference site for anyone interested in church music.

Anglican Church from Open Directory

RE Resources for Teachers

If you are a teacher in the UK, you may be called upon to render some religious teachings (called RE – Religious Education) to a group of children. One of the online resources which could possibly help you begin this task is RE:QUEST, a free, primary source for teaching about Christianity in Religious Education. This easy to use, richly illustrated and youth-centred resource is designed and made available in such a way that all key stages in religious teaching are covered.

This is what a schools Advisor has to say about this service - ”A website you will really treasure! A reliable resource for teaching and learning about Christianity. This is a must-use on-line resource of high quality and is highly commended. Brilliant! Recommended for use in all our schools.”

Here’s where you can access plenty of printable activity pdf worksheets with instructions. There are separate sets of sheets for children of different age groups.

Anglican Church Resources

Looking for resources related to the Anglican Church? Here are a few -

- the Intercontinental Church Society (ICS) is an international Church of England mission agency who have a role in spreading the Anglican Church’s message to people who speak English, and are physically located away from home, in a non-English speaking country. Elsewhere in Europe the ICS’s ministry serves its purpose towards more Europeans who speak English. As an Anglican patronage society, ICS has the job of recruiting ministers to serve in a good number of the international Anglican churches. You will be able to find help on church growth, church planting, outreach to tourists, and in finding a church abroad.

- The Anglican Domain is an online service operated by the Society of Archbishop Justus simply to help Anglicans and Anglican churches worldwide, and to be a point of focus rather than control. The site strives to be useful, by giving links to official websites for national churches, provinces, dioceses, and church publications. You will find lists of country / province-wise church membership information as well.

- AnglicansOnline is a service offered by the same society, listing an amazing range of comprehensive and up-to-date resources and information related to the Anglican Church.

The Anglican Church Today

For a thoughtful and objective piece of writing on the Anglican Church, read this page from The Independent titled ”Losing our religion: The Church of England in decline”.

The author seems to cover several relevant aspects of the Church-State relationship, and encourages the reader to wonder about a meaningful role of the religious institution in these secular times.

Churches’ Mailing Lists

You will read the words “The world’s largest online resource for family history documents and family trees” at the site Ancestry.com. One of the offerings of the site relates to some genealogy resources on the Internet.

You can access plenty of religions / churches mailing lists, with the essential details on geographic location as well as a quick indication of the purpose of those mailing lists. While at it, you might want to check out existing mailing lists in the UK and Ireland.