The plan for the rebuild for central Christchurch is now out. It looks to me, as I slowly get to understand it, as having some very exciting possibilities. This site kept people (including out of this city and country) in touch with the events around the earthquakes. This post continues that theme. Central City Recovery
At the Inter Diocesan Conference (IDC), the Tikanga Pakeha, pre-General Synod meeting, the Tikanga Pakeha strategic plan for theological education(PDF) was received. It is hard to believe that this document was presented (and received) without embarrassment. One vicar said to me, on seeing this document, that there is more in his parish’s documentation about training
The Torah reading in the synagogue this Sabbath is the start of Deuteronomy: Deut. 1:1-3:22 Moses is nearly 120 years old. No one who was wandering in the desert for 40 years is around anymore except a few good men (Joshua and Caleb). The Synagogue is moving from Numbers (Bemidbar) to Words (Devarim). The Sabbath
The General Convention of The Episcopal Church (TEC) has just been meeting. It debated whether baptism is normally required before receiving communion. Or should Christ’s table be open to everyone, baptised or not? I have written about this previously, and if you want to look back at that discussion, read “Baptism – communion – in
Let us pray (in silence) (that we may put God at the heart of our lives). Silence. O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; enfold us in your gracious care and mercy, that with you to govern and to guide us we may so
Tomorrow, in the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, is the Feast of “Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary“. The Calendar is a binding formulary of our church. We promise and sign that we believe and will teach what our formularies present. If I were to cast doubts on Mary’s mother being
The breaking of the bread appears to be essentially a Lukan title for the service that followers of Jesus have with bread and wine. It occurs in slightly different forms, as far as I can see, four times in the New Testament Luke 24:35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how
It is, for me, beyond comprehension how the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia (ACANZP), a church noted for its commitment to Te Reo Maori and Polynesian languages, has just passed a Bill that, unless there is an appeal during the following year, will make Ashes to Fire (a collection of liturgies for
