Internationally and ecumenically we are reading and praying our way together through the letter to the Colossians. What resources do you find useful? What ideas do you have for working our way through this text? What ideas do you have for worship around this text? Hymns? Songs? Video clips? Maps? Stories? Any ideas and resources
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A potpourri post with papal pivot. Ordinariate growth? I can’t pretend to fully comprehend the details etc. of the Roman Catholic Personal Ordinariate for disaffected Anglicans. My understanding is that if you grow up in it, and want to be a priest, you must be celibate. “Anglican Patrimony” apparently means Elizabethan language but doesn’t mean
I appreciate the Myers-Briggs personality typing and what we can learn from it. I enjoyed the following prayers for different personality types: ISTJ: Lord help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41.23 am e.s.t. ISTP: God help me to consider people’s feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive. ESTP: God help
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Many of you know that I have been redesigning this website [and rebuilding under the hood]. This website began Maundy Thursday 2006 – originally as a place to make my book Celebrating Eucharist available free digitally. You can look at the different ways this website looked throughout its history on the WayBack Machine [If you
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who was conceived by the Holy Spirit (Apostles Creed) was incarnate of the Holy Spirit (Nicene Creed) Jesus’ conception was miraculous It is a perfectly acceptable Christian position to hold that Jesus’ conception was miraculous. The Bible is a mixture of history and metaphor, and if you study the mentions of Jesus’ conception (and there’s
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I have as much of a sense of humour as the next person. And God does too. I have no problem laughing about religion, with religion, at religion… And God is the same. God is bigger than most people’s pride, dignity, and egotism. But I do get concerned when God is trivialised; when, with great
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Pope Benedict had started drafting an encyclical on faith to complete the trilogy, on the three theological virtues, Deus Caritas Est (2005) on charity and Spe Salvi (2007) on hope. On July 5 Pope Francis released Lumen Fidei (The Light of Faith). He writes, “[Pope Benedict XVI] himself had almost completed a first draft of
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