Three options have been unveiled for Christchurch cathedral, and with this a request for feedback and conversation. For some who are part of the community that gathers around this site, the Christchurch cathedral conversation is very significant. For others, I hope that you will be able to draw principles and reflections for your own different
Pope Francis has been much in the news for being different; with much debate around his breaking of tradition. And church rule. The Roman Catholic rule for whose feet are washed on Maundy Thursday is that they shall be adult Roman Catholic males. As you know Pope Francis washed a young Muslim woman’s feet this
In some of my preaching recently I have been having a thread about Jesus turning the world upside down, reality upside down; being the upside-down King; God’s upside-down kingdom… Sunday I preached about Jesus’ resurrection: so what?! Is it only worth a couple of episodes on a late night TV channel of the world’s unexplained
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UPDATED 9 APRIL – please scroll down for update On Thursday, April 4, three options were unveiled for the quake-damaged cathedral in the centre of Christchurch. These are termed 1) Restore; 2) Traditional; 3) Contemporary. They are the result of conversations and an international Study Tour. While the look of the three is different, essentially
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I have been reading Damian Thompson’s book The Fix (“How addiction is taking over your world”). Thompson includes addictions to iphones, painkillers, cupcakes, alcohol, computer games, and sex. He is arguing what I suspect many of us intuitively know – a lot of contemporary products, and the way we encounter them, are specifically designed to
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I have seen the image (left) more than once on facebook. It is, of course, absolute nonsense – misinformation from The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (Official) [sic] facebook page. It has had 68,834 shares by people who uncritically follow a page that describes its mission as, “to support…critical thinking and evidence-based understanding…”
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Great Christian festivals begin in the evening after sunset, are celebrated through the day and on into the next evening. Easter begins in the evening with the Easter Vigil and is celebrated for fifty days as one long festival. It is not one day. It is not 40 days. Easter is a seventh of the
