For many churches this is stewardship season. Time to get more voluntary work, and most especially more money out of the congregants! And Sunday’s Gospel reading was perfect to get that last bit of extra money out of them: Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many
At a time when state and church are often involved in heated controversy about redefining words and concepts, England and its Church have redefined “news” and “announcement” by announcing the news that Justin Welby is to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury.* I think my friend and colleague, Rev Dr Peter Carrell, may have been
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I am trying to collect together here some of the dispersed resources connected with the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council ACC15 in Auckland Oct. 27-Nov. 7 2012. As well as comments, if you know of or have other resource please add them in the comments section below. The resolutions passed at ACC15 The five
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There are many lessons that we as church, we as Christians, can learn from the USA elections. I’ll put some here, in no particular order, and you can add your own insights in the comments. I’m not going to let comments degenerate into polarising, adversarial heat. On Twitter if I even mentioned Obama, I received
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Breaking News: Bishop Justin Welby to be next Archbishop of Canterbury. The video shows the end of a process for choosing the new pope of Egypt’s Coptic Christians, becoming leader of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. Three names were chosen in a ballot by a council of some 2,400 Church and community
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On Sunday in the Anglican Church of Or the suggested liturgical colour (Lectionary PDF) is Green or Red or White or Violet. If you are celebrating Eucharist in the Anglican Church of Or the suggested Gospel readings are Mark 12:38-44 or Matt 5:1-12 or John 14:23-29 or John 15:9-17 or John 16:23a-end. Each is provided
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Yesterday I spent a majority of the day at events with the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was visiting Christchurch (in NZ’s province of Canterbury) in a break during the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council. The day began with a cathedral service at which he presided and preached. The cathedral community are guests at Christ’s
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I was in the congregation at a parish Eucharist recently – not a huge congregation, maybe around a hundred. There was a good age range. Young people were having fun leading music with a ukulele group. A sister from the Community of the Sacred name was towards the back. A Franciscan brother was preaching. There
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