Countercultural Worship
People in their 20s and 30s (Gen Y/Millennials) and also people moving from other denominations into Anglicanism complain about saying the same words together.
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What Shape is your Altar?
Encouraging and enabling a community to gather around the altar table.
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First Communion on the Moon
On Sunday July 20, 1969 the first people landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were in the lunar lander which touched down at 3:17 Eastern Standard Time. I recently watched the film First Man, and it brought all that vividly back. We know how it ended – so that wasn’t a tension
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Rubrics and Grammar 3
This is the third post in a series where I have been following my model of liturgy (communal worship) as being like a language – the language of liturgy being primarily the symbols, signs, gestures, etc. accompanied by words. In this context, I proposed thinking of the rules of liturgy (the rubrics) more as being
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Rubrics and Grammar 2
In the first post in this series, I proposed thinking of the rules of liturgy (the rubrics) more as being descriptive than prescriptive. I am following a model that sees liturgy (its actions, signs, gestures, and words) as being akin to language. Good language follows certain rules so that we are intelligible and communicate with
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The End of Liturgy?
I write this post thinking aloud (thinking allowed) in dialogue with a blog post I was pointed to that argues that collective Christian worship will not last: Here is why Christian worship doesn’t work anymore: Christian worship is designed to allow people to worship God, and people don’t want or need that relationship with God
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The “New” Our Father
Two recent articles from New Zealand criticise different aspects of the new RC missal translation. NZ was the first country to introduce the new translation. In one article, a RC bishop is scathing in his critique (the bishop urges people to ignore some of the translation), the other regrets the loss of the ecumenical Lord’s
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fresh expressions?
Fresh expressions – towards a dialogue Antipodean internet responses to the Church of England report A Mixed Economy for Mission (PDF) have been falling over themselves with unalloyed fervour and praise. Certainly there is much of value in this and its earlier report, Mission-shaped Church (PDF). But anyone who has previously seen the church’s enthusiasm
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