Why do people equate a “church wedding” with lots of expense? I was talking to someone who got married recently. She is a church-going Christian. Her wedding was a simple wedding in a registry office. They asked to have no presents, and friends present paid for their own meal afterwards at a restaurant. My question
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Does a blog exist? If a blog exists – where does it exist? In the mind of the blogger? On the screen of the blogger? On the server hosting the blog? In the code transmitted from the server? On the screen of the blog-reader? In the eyes of the blog-reader? In the mind of the
I have just purchased the Lectionary for the 2010 Church Year of The Anglican Church in Aotearoa (comma) New Zealand (no “Oxford/Harvard comma“) and Polynesia, better known as “The Anglican Church of Or”. (With a carefully thought-through official title one would think similar great care would be taken in the common prayer that holds it
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What can we do this Advent? Be more about compassion and less about consumption. Be more about presence and less about presents. Incarnation isn’t about escaping from our human stresses – quite the opposite – incarnation is entering our ordinary, messy human lives more deeply… Set up a wreath with the four Advent candles, lighting
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Advent 2 December 6 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by BCP TEC and others) Advent 2 December 6 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by CofE Common Worship and others) Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily. The HTML for adding this
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John Cage (1912–1992) composed Four minutes, thirty-three seconds (or “Four, thirty-three”) in 1952. The score states the performer(s) do not play an instrument through three movements (thirty seconds, two minutes and twenty-three seconds, one minute and forty seconds). For the premiere David Tudor sat at a piano and closed the keyboard lid. Some time later
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So many Christian communities appear to be in survival mode – the “How do we get people in through our doors? How do we keep them here? How do we get young people?” mentality. [Young people, I promise you, can smell the bait-and-switch approach of many communities a mile away – and stay away]. What
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Vincent Murphy, one of my followers on twitter, and a regular commenter on this site, has on his site uncovered the program for the creation of the universe (you can follow the verses in Genesis 1 indicated eg. // 1:1-5): [word@god ~]# cat creation.word #!/bin/word // 1:1-5 begin creation public earth = new domain(); earth.content
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