Ascension Day in the Southern Hemisphere commences the week of prayer for Christian unity. There is also a temptation to stop celebrating Easter now, and extinguish the Easter Candle. Resist it. You can do it. Sunday is the seventh Sunday in the Great 50 days of the Easter Season. Ascension Day collect/opening prayer reflection Seventh
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The newly-elected Bishop of Polynesia, the Rt Rev Dr Winston Halapua, has been announced at the meeting of General Synod in Gisborne. Bishop Winston was nominated recently by the electoral college of the Diocese of Polynesia, and the confirmation process involves all the bishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia and
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Please do me a favour for a minute. The NZ Prayer Book renunciation in the baptism service is: Do you renounce all evil influences and powers that rebel against God? I renounce all evil. Could you please in the comment box below write a paraphrase of what is being renounced. That is, please “translate” the
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Regular readers of this site will be aware that General Synod of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is meeting in Gisborne. On this site I have been calling for more information to be made available online. This site has a wide, international, ecumenical readership, and I’m always conscious to try and
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I have just been informed that this site has been listed with 97 others on christiancounselingdegree.org (OK – mine is number 98, I hope they aren’t listed in order of usefulness, LOL. They don’t appear to be). That American site has as a strapline, “using biblical values to help others.” That site intends to bring
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And here for the parents (mothers especially today): 10 ways parents can annoy their kids on facebook
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I have been able to find out a bit more about debates relating to liturgy at the meeting of General Synod of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia meeting in Gisborne from today. Motion 5 (below) is the one that confuses and concerns me most, followed by the bill on Ashes to
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The church, Christians, well people generally really, have a habit of MAJORING on minors. Making mountains out of molehills, and molehills out of mountains. Carefully straining a tiny gnat out of your coffee and not taking much notice when a camel falls into your drink (Mt 23:24). Six disputed Bible verses that apply to a
