A “liturgist” in NZ Anglicanism is not (as on the rest of the planet) a person who studies liturgy; here a “liturgist” is a lay leader in the “first part of the service”. Whatever I might think about this way of running a service, in practice this is deeply embedded in NZ Anglicanism. And, whatever
In New Zealand it was recently announced that a childless woman is donating her eggs to her mother and stepfather so they can create a baby that will be raised as her sister. This is legal and accepted by the overseeing ethics committee. Whether the banked sperm of a teenager who died 11 years ago
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Yes, projecting words (and images) onto screens can be used well in some worship, but it is not a panacea for bad liturgy – it can even make things worse. Screens are inherently about being passive. Your only action: look at them. They are part of a passive culture – we don’t go out to
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Regulars will know, I’m not heavily into a thing “alone” (eg. Bible alone,…) In the holidays I was channel-surfing in a motel and stumbled upon a rerun of the interview I’ve now embedded in this post (above). Oksana Boyko interviews Richard Dawkins – and RT.com titled this “Faith in Reason” (full transcript at that link).
Many readers here will remember the tightening-up under Pope Benedict of the RC Sign of Peace rules. “Abuses” were to be stopped, such as the departure of the presider from the sanctuary in order to give the sign of peace to some of the faithful, and the exchange of peace being the occasion for expressing
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Because I want to give fuller attention to some other projects (including taking care not to end up regularly writing more about prayer than actually praying!), I will have a blogging break at least over the Lent and Easter Seasons. On this site, there are about two thousand blog posts, and an average of about
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On Saturday the Christchurch Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society, it being 100 years since the birth of Thomas Merton, organised a day of Prayer and Pilgrimage. After gathering for a cuppa, welcome, and morning prayer, we set off for the Carmelite Monastery of Christ the King for quiet time and Midday Prayer with
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Someone recently pointed me to a blog post 5 Areas Where Progressive Christian Culture Completely Loses Me. Benjamin Corey there wrote about Far too many progressives ready to rebuke you for not being progressive enough Neglecting the truth that choosing to follow Jesus results in a changed life Mishandling scripture to avoid traditional interpretations of
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