Are We Anglican?
Can a church which abandons Common Prayer be termed “Anglican”?
July 2019
Nowadays, People Believe Anything
While Christianity struggles to move into the 21st-century, post-modern context, other belief systems are rapidly filling the vacuum that has been created. Because, people, they need to believe. And scientific rationalism isn’t something that most people are able to build a life upon.
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Making This Website Even Better
These two days, I’m working to make this website even better – updating the theme (look) to fit with the upgraded WordPress 5 (Gutenberg). Prayers and thoughts appreciated.
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Goodbye Daily Office?
On some recent occasions when I was present, clergy were leading the Daily Office from A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa. In each of these cases, when they got to the appointed psalm, however, rather than using it as a prayer that we, the gathered community, prayed together, the psalm in
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Resources for Week beginning 14 July
Let us pray (in silence) [that we may follow the Good Shepherd] pause O God,you shine the light of your truth for those who stray into error,so that they may be able to return to the right path,grant that all who profess the Christian faithmay reject whatever is contrary to the name of Christand eagerly
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Social Media Ethics and Culture
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] You don’t have to spend much time on the internet to realise that it can magnify human good and human bad. People say and do things digitally that they wouldn’t do In Real Life. But I think the internet acronym, IRL (In Real Life), belies our new normal
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What a Lectionary is Not
In a recent online discussions, people expressed outrage that some verses were left out of the Revised Common Lectionary reading from the Book of Revelation. Some of the discussions about the origin of the shared Three Year Lectionary got to levels of deprecation such as: I know where the 3-year lectionary comes from. The Vatican
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Priest as Conductor
I recently preached about the movement from disciple to leadership. As part of that, I looked at the etymology of the English word “leader”. It comes from Middle English leden, from Old English lǣdan, and is akin to Old High German, leiten. As such, that word seems to only be part of our language for
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