I don’t wear one, but someone came and asked me what the knots of the cincture (cord around the waist over the alb) mean. I’m afraid that my response, “they mean that you don’t end up tripping up over the cord,” didn’t satisfy this person. Something completely made up, like: “one knot represents the divinity
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Be it the death of a well-known cricketer, or a hostage siege, or the massacre of innocent children… world leaders send messages of support to the affected peoples and countries. And they do so not primarily on their own behalf, but on behalf of the nation they lead. They say words like, “our thoughts and
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Much of New Zealand’s election on Saturday, and discussions around it, forms parables for the church. First the difference: anyone can examine detailed political statistics, drill down, and analyse them. But, although NZ Anglicanism keeps some localised statistics (diocese by diocese), it insists on keeping no national statistics. Saturday’s NZ election result was a surprise.
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The Neanderthal bickering that passes for “democracy” in New Zealand has become even more of a circus recently. Just a week out from the election, the teflon coating has worn off John Key who was the primary voting focus of the National TeaParty. This is the risk of following a “presidential-style” campaign – you need
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On Saturday, according to twittaholic, I became the most-followed twitter profile based in New Zealand. @liturgy has about 75 thousand followers. Not a politician (John Key, the Prime Minister, ranks at number 7 with 28,492Followers); not a sports person; not a musician or famous actor… the most-followed twitter profile in this so-called most-secular of nations,
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Americans today head to the polls to choose between Barack Obama and John McCain, and my own country also gears up for an election on Saturday (the dynamics of our MMP system make this more complex than a two-horse race – but either Helen Clark or John Key will end up being Prime Minister). Many
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