Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, answers a question about why be Episcopalian (Anglican)? Plenty of options for comments: things you enjoy about being Anglican/Episcopalian; things you find irritating about being Anglican/Episcopalian. If you belong to another denomination – things you appreciate about your own church or denomination… You could even put
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Recently attention has been drawn to Sci-Fi picking up the ball that the church is dropping. Julie Clawson writes: In many ways these fictions take up the task that the church has nearly completely abdicated. Churches don’t use their collective voice and energy to challenge the existence of a world where God’s ways are not
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Thousands of people, for five days this August, have chosen to spend just $2.25 each day on food. They are doing this because there are 1.4 billion people who have no choice other than to do it every day. $2.25 represents the amount someone living in extreme poverty in New Zealand would have to live
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Last week was World Youth Day in Madrid. There has been reflection on the protests. One might reflect on the inability of Roman Catholic priests not normally having the facility to absolve abortion. One might reflect on the Roman Catholic Church’s waning influence in the host country, Spain (14% of young people describe themselves religious,
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Regulars here will realise that I regularly look at the Christian tradition through Benedictine lenses. I realise that there have been some who have questioned the existence of St Benedict, but now I come across the work of British scholar Francis Clark The Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 37) (here is
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The Collect • collect/opening prayer reflection for August 28 and the week following (BCP USA TEC) Common Worship (CofE) Let your merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of your humble servants; and that they may obtain their petitions make them to ask such things as shall please you; through Jesus Christ your
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There is no central authority for the English language. There is no person, no body, no organisation, no committee that makes decisions for the world’s most successful language. Other languages are controlled by a central body – mostly it is parliament. Teachers of English language will argue with each other about commas and semi-colons, punctuation
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I was recently at a conference held in Knox College, Dunedin. This is where Presbyterian clergy are trained [Yes – aside to Kiwi Anglicans: Presbyterians and other denominations still have a clear process for training their clergy. Apparently, there is nothing intrinsically against clear training and formation in this age. Surprise!] The image above is
