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Links The internet is a source of useful information and sometimes inspiration. It’s also home to junk, and worse. Here are some of our reliable favorites. Anglican “Anglican” is the generic name of our traditon.   Anglicans Online is a skillfully assembled package of news and resources on Anglicanism, updated each Monday: http://anglicansonline.org/   Thinking Anglicans is a solid resource for up to the minute news and comment: http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/   The “Official” Church The Episcopal Church U.S.A. welcomes you here: http://episcopalchurch.org/   Our region is called the Diocese of New York: http://dioceseny.org/   Find a clergy person in the Episcopal Church or a local congregation: http://www.cpg.org/episcopalresources/clergyfinder.cfm   Periodicals Episcopal Life is the official monthly in the U.S.A.: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/episcopal_life.htm   The Living Church is an independent weekly: http://www.livingchurch.org/   The Witness is published online: http://www.thewitness.org/   Online, interfaith news and views: http://www.beliefnet.com/ The Bible There is a bewildering variety of English translations in print. The one you’ll hear most often at St. Bart’s is the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), available in several formats and prices in our bookstore and in many other outlets. You can search the NRSV for a specific word or verse here: http://bible.oremus.org/   A complete list of online Bibles is here: http://www.ntgateway.com/bible.htm   The Book of Common Prayer The Prayer Book is the liturgical “crown jewels” of our tradition. Learn about the various historical editions and today’s versions in various languages and parts of the world: http://anglicansonline.org/resources/bcp.html   The Episcopal Church U.S.A.’s current version is here: http://www.bcponline.org/   Calendars of Sundays, feast and fast days, and the Bible readings (lectionaries) we use are found here: http://www.io.com/~kellywp/index.html and here: http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/index.htm   Prayer and Liturgy online This useful site offers Morning and Evening Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer as a daily, clickable resource: http://www.missionstclare.com/english/index.html   A collection of online resources on prayer, liturgy, hymns etc.: http://www.oremus.org/   Interesting background on “alternative worship,” one of the sources of our Emerge 7 pm Sunday eucharist: http://www.alternativeworship.org/ Spiritual food Episcopal priest Barbara Crafton’s insightful, spirited and witty writings come in books and almost daily doses. Read them, or sign up for her “eMos” here: http://geraniumfarm.org/home.cfm   Real Live Preacher is a Baptist pastor in Texas whose voice is about as authentic and nourishing as you’ll find: http://www.reallivepreacher.com/rlp   The late Henri Nouwen’s words live in many popular books and on this website. You can also sign up for a daily reflection by email: http://www.henrinouwen.org/     Miscellaneous Proof that “Christian humor” is not an oxymoron: http://ship-of-fools.com/   Even better, the cartoons of our former vicar, Jay Sidebotham: http://www.cpg.org/episcopalresources/cartoons.cfm   Blogs “Weblogs” have become a phenomenon of the internet, and certainly religion-related sites are proliferating faster than we can track them. We tend to avoid the more heated places, but here we list some we read and value.   Kendall Harmon, an Episcopal priest with a generally conservative, evangelical outlook, is tireless in posting his own thoughts and, with fairness and enterprise, those of others: http://titusonenine.classicalanglican.net/   Mark Harris, an Episcopal priest in Delaware, offers a progressive take on the future on the Anglican Communion and its current struggles: http://anglicanfuture.blogspot.com/   Nick Knisely, a parish priest in Bethlehem, PA, also teaches physics (from which he takes his blog’s title) and writes firmly from the middle of the road: http://www.entangledstates.org/   Susan Russell, a parish priest in California and president of Integrity, the gay and lesbian support and advocacy group, writes here: http://inchatatime.blogspot.com/   This blog comes from the American Anglican Council, which asserts it represents the “orthodox” among Episcopalians and often dissents from the main body of the Church: http://aacblog.classicalanglican.net/   Tobias Haller, a priest and poet in our own diocese, posts his reflections here: http://jintoku.blogspot.com/