Links
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Official Links
The Episcopal Church Official Web Site
The Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas
Episcopal Relief and Development sends emergency relief in times of natural disasters and man-made catastrophes.
Anglican Communion has information about the Anglican/Episcopal family of churches in more than 160 countries throughout the world.
Church Publishing produces "prayer books, hymnals, and other titles mandated by the General Convention through the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music. In addition, [they] publish works on liturgy, music, homiletics, church history, liturgical theology, Anglican spirituality, contemporary global Anglicanism, and emerging issues, as well as recorded music, and a growing list of software products and online services."
Forward Movement Publications, home of Forward Day by Day, "is an official agency of the national Episcopal Church. Since 1935 we have produced pamphlets, booklets, and books to encourage and nourish people as they grow in their lives of prayer and faith. We are best known for the popular quarterly devotional Forward Day by Day, providing daily meditations based on readings from the Bible appointed by the lectionaries."
Points of Interest
Anglicans Online contains a wealth of information about the worldwide Anglican church.
The Book of Common Prayer is freely available in a variety of formats, including Adobe's PDF format, from this site. If you do not already have a program that reads .pdf files, you may download the free Adobe Reader here.
The Lectionary Page is especially handy for lay readers. It is "a liturgical calendar for upcoming weeks" and also features a comprehensive index of texts.
The Daily Office Online presents services of Morning and Evening Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Compline, and Devotions for Individuals and Families.
Early Christian Writings - "All of the Christian writings that are believed to have been written in the first and second centuries, as well as a few selected from the early third, as well as information and scholarly opinion regarding the background, authorship, dating, and provenance of these documents." All writings are free to download.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Classic Christian books in electronic format, including The Confessions of St. Augstine, Thomas a Kempis' The Imitation of Christ, writings by Luther, Calvin and many more. All writings are free to download. Their server is sometimes unavailable.
The Sword Project is developing Sword, a computer program that "...allows you to read and browse many different bible's translations in different languages from Hebrew to Albanian. As well as reading devotionals, commentaries, dictionaries and lexicons..." Available for Windows and Linux at the above link, and for the Mac at MacSword.
