I said recently that film might be one of the last places where real enchantment is still experienced. And mainstream cinema, to reinforce my point, has been giving us a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, into our lap. The Hobbit, Life of Pi, and now Les Misérables. The movie is the first
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A lot of it is our own fault as Christians: “Do you believe in Jesus?” has the same configuration as, “Do you believe in Santa Clause?” and “Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy?” For about three weeks now, there has been an almost-daily debate raging in our local newspaper whether Jesus was actually an
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I have been trying to encourage Christian individuals and communities to mission and ministry on and through the technological revolution we are in. “Church website” and “rate the church website” are a couple of recent posts of mine, for example. I am not the only one. Kelvin Holdsworth, Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, is
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And she said unto them, “One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the
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I have blogged on Sydney Anglicans having the wife submit to the husband, and the fascinating debate whether these couples are now legally married, or in fact now living in sin. It is no secret that Sydney Anglicanism franchises into and influences New Zealand. But it is only recently that it has been reported to
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One of the people I find inspiring, Nick Vujicic, the Australian born without arms and legs, presents a thought-provoking video reflection about validation. If you appreciated this post, there are different ways to keep in touch with the community around this website: like the facebook page, follow twitter, use the RSS feed,…
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Here is another reworking of a collect shared by Roman Catholics and Episcopalians/Anglicans. I am very happy to receive comments and also suggestions for improvement. The process of producing such a reworking is always a wonderful mulling over and over and over. The mulling over is a form of lectio (prayer), just as the collect
In Orthodox liturgy the deacon often proclaims, at important points, such things as, “Wisdom! Attend!” Or just, “Wisdom!” Or “Let us attend!”. Maybe we live in an age that we need to have the deacon proclaim, from time to time, “It is a metaphor!” We seem to have moved into a time where people have
