This weekend, the Episcopal Diocese of New York elected a Bishop Coadjutor (such a bishop has automatic right of succession to the current Diocesan Bishop, the Bishop Mark Sisk, when he retires). The discernment process was clear, clean, and public. A “Committee to Elect a Bishop” proposed five candidates, one of those withdrew, and two
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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Digital, online versions of A New Zealand Prayer Book – He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa, and parts of it, are becoming available. I have prepared a static page of digital versions of A New Zealand Prayer Book. This includes a digital epub file for iPod, iPad, iPhone. I have downloadable Word and PDF files there.
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As you can see on the above graph – spam has been arriving at this site exponentially year by year. Currently I get about a thousand spam comments a day (I’ve had a total of 286,107 spam comments). I can look at this from the bright side: a lot of Christian websites have gone down
Please add good quality Advent resources, and especially links to online resources in the comments section. Click here for the 2010 resource for ecumenical worship to begin Advent. Click here for prayers at the Advent Wreath related to the lectionary Sunday by Sunday. Click here for another Advent Wreath blessing, and an Advent Wreath song.
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Unfortunately, the NZ Lectionary continues to make a mess of this Sunday, offering about a dozen titles for the day, a poor suggestion for the collect, a variety of reading options, and even excluding (once again!) the colour that the majority of Christians will be using for this day (White)! So – my advice: Kiwis,
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I was pointed to the above and other videos of La Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) after the discussion about (de)consecration. Even beyond the discussions about (de)consecration we can learn much from the clip in terms of lavishness of symbol; vesture, music… Salm responsorial: 83 (Catalan) Que n’és d’amable, el vostre temple, Senyor de l’univers. Tot jo
On Tuesday 8 November UK’s Royal Mail issued their Christmas Stamps for 2011. It is a delight to see Christmas stamps that are actually Christmas stamps. This year’s stamps celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. There’s just one problem: the second-class stamp has a picture of an angel with a dreaming Joseph.
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