Videos Of Note
And if you did not work out who was who: A Viewer’s Guide A challenge for New Zealand where one of the three official languages is New Zealand Sign Language:
2014
Obsession With Rules 3
I’ve been writing about the place of agreements (“rules”) in our common prayer. This is the third post in that series, and if you haven’t read the previous two, I suggest you read here and here first. Whose is the liturgy, our common prayer? To whom does it belong? It does not belong to the
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The Sign of Peace
The rules for the Sign of Peace in the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Eucharistic rite were left to the individual “conference of bishops to decide in accord with the customs and mentality of the people.” In that rite, it occurs after the Eucharistic Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer and before the Fraction (the breaking of
Peace Sunday
Peace Sunday is held on the Sunday closest to Hiroshima Day, 6 August. It is fascinating, isn’t it, that the NZ Lectionary Booklet has “Disability Awareness Sunday” on Trinity Sunday, Refugee Sunday, Sea Sunday, Bible Sunday, Social Services Sunday, Arrival of Anglican Missionaries in Papua New Guinea Sunday, etc. – but fails to mention “Peace
Stroop Effect
OK – How quickly can you say the colours of the words above, not reading the words, but the colour that the word is written in? Most of us struggle not to read a word that is placed in front of us. This is called the “Stroop Effect”. Put words of the service onto a
The Bible in the Life of the Church
I have previously written about the Bible in the Life of the Church project which was commissioned by the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) at its meeting in Jamaica in May 2009. Now a commenter has pointed us to the publication of its Phase 1 report and material leading into Phase 2. There is a lot
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Do You Like Christians?
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi From time to time I hear people saying such things as being a member of the church is counter-cultural. Well is it…? Really? Always? The impression given is that our culture is self-centered, focused on money,
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God and the Gay Christian
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships By Matthew Vines. Hardcover, 224 pages; Publisher: Convergent Books (April 22, 2014) I am not encouraging debating here for and against Matthew Vines’ and similar works – there are plenty of websites and places that energetically debate this, and if that is
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