bread and wine ambigram
This ambigram of bread and wine looks the same when rotated 180 degrees (stand on your head, view it from the other hemisphere,…) Source
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September 2011
10 Year Anniversary of 9/11, 2001
Light a candle here resources for this Sunday Textweek resources for the Anniversary of 9-11-01
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church architecture 1
THE COMMUNITY is often a forgotten symbol in discussions about church buildings. The community is not an audience. The community is not passive. Hence, the way the community gathers is extremely important. The entrance procession of the community begins from our home, with cars and walking, and other means. How are we welcomed into the
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lenses for the Bible?
On Sunday we read Romans 13:9 that The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet”; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This echoes Jesus in Matthew 22:35-40; Mark 12:28-31; and Luke 10:25-28. Jesus teaches that
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Ashes to Fire
If Ashes to Fire is “authorised” will all other possibilities from Ash Wednesday until the Day of Pentecost be illegal? Currently everything in Ashes to Fire (a resource for the Lent and Easter Seasons) is allowed to be used. But currently you can also use resources from the Canadian Book of Alternative Services, from the
Liturgy lessens
In the latest Anglican Taonga magazine (the wonderful quarterly magazine of NZ Anglicanism) my friend and colleague, Peter Carrell, writes an article in which he argues for simplification and clarification of our NZ liturgical resources. I am arguing for the same in the motion passed by our synod. I didn’t know he was writing the
week starting September 11
The Collect • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 11 and the week following (NZPB) • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 11 and the week following (BCP TEC USA) • collect/opening prayer reflection for September 11 and the week following (Common Worship CofE) Momentum is growing for appreciation of our inherited Trinitarian collect tradition The Readings
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rugby heaven!
I have already written about Rugby being the established State Religion of a deeply-religious New Zealand. Our whole education system this year has shifted school holidays not to benefit educational aims, but to fit in with the Rugby World Cup. [As with many minority sects, those living within it do not realise how small the