Update 18 October 2014 Thoughts and prayers for Andrew Hedge, his family, and the Diocese of Waiapu as today he is ordained bishop, and installed as the 16th Bishop of Waiapu. You can light a candle in the online Chapel. I am delighted with the announcement that my friend Andrew Hedge has been elected as
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You know those exam questions that have a statement, and then just add, “Discuss”. This post could be thought of like that (I suppose all posts here could be thought of like that). The dynamic (I’m choosing that word on purpose) of the 3-year Revised Common Lectionary, of the Church Year, of the Bible actually,
Third culture kids (TCKs) “refer to children who were raised in a culture outside of their parents’ culture for a significant part of their development years… The first culture of children refers to the culture of the country from which the parents originated, the second culture refers to the culture in which the family currently
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Three years ago, with her permission, I quoted my good e-friend Meredith Gould‘s wonderful reworking of of Teresa of Avila’s prayer: Christ has no online presence but yours, No blog, no Facebook page but yours, Yours are the tweets through which love touches this world, Yours are the posts through which the Gospel is shared,
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We have done those things which we ought not to have done General General Synod Te Hinota Whanui (GSTHW) at its recent meeting quietly acknowledged that our province’s messy liturgical life, not to put too fine a point on it, is illegal. And it set in train an unprecedented process to start remedying this. Since
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Bishop Michael Curry – The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. Maybe you don’t hear preaching like this:
In my series on worship environment I have been emphasising interior layout and features. But the building itself is not unimportant. Secular franchises recognise this – the external appearance of a building for many franchises is immediately recognisable (just think how a McDonald’s restaurant is immediately recognisable wherever you go!). It is not either/or –
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This week is the 10th Week in Ordinary Time. Last time we had Ordinary Time (we stopped counting before Lent) it was the 8th Week in Ordinary Time. What happened to the 9th Week? Firstly, let’s be clear about what “Ordinary” means here. It does not mean “usual”, “common”, “every-day”… I’m sure you know there
