I think I know in my heart what I want to say in this and a future related post – but I also have an intuition that what I write may be misheard. But hey! Like that’s never happened before 😉 so here goes: Many of us will have been to a service with so
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Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows Eve, the Eve of All Hallows, All Saints. Christians traditionally start celebrating a significant festival on the eve of the feast. A good example is Christmas Eve. All Saints is now often regarded as such an important feast that it is moved to Sunday so that it can
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The Anglican Diocese of Waiapu in New Zealand may be one of the most recent to join the trend of exploring online church. OMGod Church has a webpage, a facebook page (267 people), and a youtube channel. Bishop David Rice, Bishop of Waiapu, officially opened OMGod Church on 29 July 2010. Since then there have
With the increasing number of spam comments, the issue is that I am in danger of deleting very good comments that have accidentally ended up in the spam filter. I am going to try using some additional plugins. The first I am trying is a conditional captcha. So if you get an image such as:
This is the second in a series attempting to nuance the statement, “The Bible says…” The first in this series introduced textual criticism. The Septuagint (LXX) Many people when they say, “The Bible says…” go on to quote an English translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. Eastern Orthodox and others, however, do not do this.
Anglican terminology can appear confusing to a visitor or newcomer. What is the difference between a bishop, an archdeacon, and a dean? The following descriptions have been around in different forms for a while, but are still difficult to improve on: THE ARCHBISHOP: Leaps tall buildings in a single bound, Is more powerful than a
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Like the word “Christian”, we use “common prayer” often enough, but maybe when we try to define it we end up with a spectrum with different people and groups having varying edges beyond which their definition stops. So – what is common prayer? For the purpose of this post, not a rhetorical question but a
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The spam filter for this site recently passed filtering out 50,000 spam comments. I awoke this morning with 57 spam comments, one genuine comment, and one comment clearly spam which the filter had not dealt to. This site has had 732 blog posts with 3,072 comments. And so far 50,569 spam comments. The rate of
