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Pluralism Project -- A Harvard-based ongoing study of multiple religions.

Prof. Jeffrey K. Hadden’s list It describes more than 200 sects and cults (with their hotlinks), and the list grows gradually.

ANGLICAN COMMUNION (See also Episcopal Church below.)

Official Church of England home page.

The Anglican Library   Provides the full text online of a number of classic Anglican works, for examples:
William Law’s A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life and The 16th century Book of Homilies.

Anglican Communion News Service
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Anglican Gradual and Sacramentary -- You may download any part you desire from this 22-volume work. David Allen White is making it available, at no cost. The Anglican Gradual and Sacramentary is something like the Anglican Missal, in that it provides the traditional anthems (sometimes called the minor propers) and special prayers and other texts, but it is designed to be used with the 1979 Prayer Book, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, and the Book of Occasional Services, and it provides not only traditional language but contemporary English and Spanish.

Anglican Communion   The official web home.

Anglicans Online

Lambeth Conference (1998)

Church Times Online   The Church Times has just published its webpage, and if you’re interested in the top news about the Anglican Communion each week, take a look. You can get the full text of current articles. As of today (10/4/2000), the site has only begun to install articles for archival searches (a search for Singapore pulls up no articles), but the page gives promise of becoming very useful. A hotlink to Biographies of Anglican Clergy provides a geographical key which takes you down even to the level of the Diocese of Texas. At that point, although the diocesan website is listed, it is not provided as a link, and to get there you would have to copy the website and open it independent of the Church Times site. No details are provided, suggesting that they rely on the Diocesan website as the source of any biographical information within the Diocese.

Society of Archbishop Justus Computer Service   Hotlinks to some 25 or 30 Anglican websites including periodicals online, seminaries, dioceses, and the Prayer Book Society of Canada. Also includes full text online documents of interest to Anglicans, including the Anglicans online coverage of the 1998 Lambeth Conference.

The Windsor Report

The full text.
News about the Windsor Report from the Episcopal News Service.
After The Windsor Report: An Anglican Future Depends on Companionship in the Present - a presentation by The Very Rev. Titus Presler, January 28, 2005.

Primates’ Communiqué, February 24, 2005

BAPTIST

American Baptist Church -- Women Clergy

BaptistNet

Baptist.Org

First Baptist Church (Austin, Texas)

SBCNet (Southern Baptist Convention)

BRUDERHOF COMMUNITIES

BUDDHISM

DharmaNet International

Government of Tibet in Exile

Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox. See Orthodox below.

EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE U.S.A

Archives of the Episcopal Church USA
Book of Common Prayer -- The full text online. To search the text on a downloaded version, use these instructions. Other sites are also available, and some are linked here.

Choose Formatted Version
Scan down a long way till you come to “All of the above files, ZIP compressed.”
Choose the MSWord format
Choose Save
A window opens which asks where to save it.
Navigate to your desktop and give the file a name (BCP would do).
Leave the file type as WinZip.
Choose Save
After the downloading, Choose Close.
Then leave the web and you will find an icon for your file on your desktop.
Double click the icon,
Choose I agree
and you should be able to open the file and search it in Word file which may be searched.
When you first open it, if the pages are too small to read,
Choose View from the menu at the top.
Then choose Normal.
Under the Edit menu at the top,
Choose Find.

Episcopal News Service (ENS) - The best source for national news about Episcopal people, organizations, and events.

El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission, Austin, Texas - One of Austin's Episcopal ministries to Latinas/Latinos. Works closely with San Francisco de Asis Church in South Austin.

The Daily Office - Provided by Mission Saint Clare.

Liturgical Calendar - With links to the Book of Common Prayer.

Lectionary Resources - Provided as a service from a commercial church web consultant

Province VII of the Episcopal Church -- Province VII consists of the Dioceses of Arkansas, Dallas, Fort Worth, Kansas, Oklahoma, Northwest Texas, Rio Grande, Texas, West Missouri, West Texas, Western Kansas and Western Louisiana. To obtain council member contact information, as well as current information about the Province’s three networks: the Mission Project, the Nurture Project, and Christian Faith in Action. You’ll also find current provincial news (including job listings, Council meeting minutes, and articles about special people from around the province); a regularly updated calendar of provincial events; the Hub Online; the current Treasurer’s Report; links to dioceses and parishes, and important national and international news stories updated daily by the Episcopal News Service.

Province VII Dioceses:

Arkansas
Northwest Texas

West Missouri

Dallas
Oklahoma

West Texas

Fort Worth
Rio Grande

Western Kansas

Kansas
Texas

Western Louisiana

Province VII Center for Hispanic Ministries

General Convention of the Episcopal Church -- Choose "Leadership Resources", then choose "Office of the General Convention. See also Archives of the Episcopal Church USA, above. National Association for the Diaconate

Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation

Trinity Church, Wall Street Clinton S. Quin, Bishop of the Diocese of Texas, 1919-1956 Kanuga Conference Center

Louie Crew's Anglican Pages Sermons for the Lectionary -- From the Episcopal Church Worship-that-Works service, these sermons keyed to the church year appear online well in advance of the scheduled reading. Hymnal 1982 -- If you've got speakers or earphones attached to your computer, you can call up hymns from the Hymnal 1982 and listen to them.

Statistical Fast Facts

Women Clergy in the Episcopal Church

Women in Mission and Ministry, Episcopal Church Center, or e-mail: froszkowski@dfms.org Richard T. Nolan -- A retired teacher of philosophy and ethics, Dr. Nolan has created a notable and useful website, including complete texts of four books in his areas of interest, numerous outstanding links to Episcopal information web sites, and photos of his dogs, along with biographical information about them. This is a fun site, with some outstanding information as well.

Covenant: A Commentary on the Church -- Edited by John Lane Denson, ETSS '54.

Homosexuality and the Episcopal Church

Integrity (Austin)
Integrity (U.S.A.)
Registry of couples waiting for a liturgy

HINDUISM

Austin Hindu Temple - Members of the 11,000 Hindu families in Austin are planning construction of a temple in East Austin. They offer classes and other activities.

Hindu Universe

Barsanha Dahm Hindu Temple (Austin, Texas)

ISLAM

Hartford Seminary Library -- Resources on Islam, including books, periodicals, and links to web sites.

Islamic Foundation of America

IslamiCity

The Mosque in America

Sunnah Muslim Page

JUDAISM

Cyber Home of Torah

Jewishnet

Project Genesis