Christchurch “city” is glum, grey, and empty. Acres of empty grey spaces, rubble, and the ever-present sound of cascading debris, and metal dinosaurs chewing their way through munted buildings. Fog and grey skies. That’s not even mentioning the people sleeping out in cars, vans, etc. because they have not been helped yet after quakes a
There’s a lot of … ummmm… awkward stuff in the Bible (I’m using “awkward” to be polite). Recently, for example, I wrote about Numbers 5:11-31 where a man (and in the Bible it’s always the man isn’t it!) gets a suspicion that his wife has been unfaithful and, having no evidence, the Bible has a
A motion from Christchurch will be moved at the July meeting of General Synod Te Hinota Whanui (GSTHW) of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The motion to GSTHW will bring forward our diocesan concern. Christchurch passed the following unanimously at our September synod 2011: “That this Synod… asks the Standing Committee
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I am all in favour of appropriate technology. I recently wrote about using the iPad at the Eucharist. There have been useful discussions about this here and elsewhere. Some of the better points I have seen have been the suggestion that the cantor at the Easter Vigil use an iPad when chanting the Exsultet (Exultet).
An open letter to the Commission on the Ordination and Blessing of People in Same Sex Relationships (Ma whea/Mei fe kei fe/Where to? Commission) In the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia the members of the Commission on the Ordination and Blessing of People in Same Sex Relationships have been announced. They are
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Of Ceremonies, Why some be abolished, and some retained. We are celebrating 350 years of the Book of Common Prayer 1662. Many of its principles and rationales are deeply sound. There is much we can learn from it, embodying its principles into our different time and context. Let us pause a moment and pick up
I was recently asked to write an article for the independent Catholic magazine, Tui Motu, on the question: Where do you see the Spirit moving in the place where you minister? This is what I wrote: The Spirit (ruach) of God was hovering. (Genesis 1:2) We can count nearly four hundred times that the feminine
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I am delighted to find echoes of my own input in the Christchurch diocesan Architectural Design Guidelines (PDF). My concern about the font can be found in the document. These Design Guidelines are to design new church buildings after the extensive damage through the Canterbury earthquakes. The Guidelines can also be used for repairing and
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