While many individuals and churches (including my own Anglican province) uncritically bless unrestricted serial monogamy for heterosexuals (ie. more to have and to hold; less forsaking all others), many of those same people insist that homosexuals not be able to commit to one person they love before God. Many still see marriage as giving permission
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The top name on the web for 2013 is Pope Francis, and @Pontifex is the fourth most-used word on the web (ranking after “404”, “fail”, and “hashtag”). The Global Language Monitor has made its 14th Annual Survey of Global English of 1.83 billion English-speaking people of the world. The secular mythology of our culture pushes
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I have been writing about connections between washing hands and spirituality prior to the Eucharistic Prayer as part of the Abrahamic faiths entering a church. There is another example of hand-washing and spirituality that New Zealanders would encounter regularly. Maori have a deep and complex understanding in spirituality of tapu and noa, usually translated as
Many of us have, by now, bought our copy of the booklet The Lectionary Te Maramataka 2014. UPDATE: here is the PDF of The Lectionary Te Maramataka 2014 (1.40 MB) As the booklet itself makes clear, this lectionary booklet can be used to find the appropriate liturgical colour. As in the example in the image
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There is already much comment about the consultation Pope Francis has initiated in preparation for next year’s Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome. I have been predicting/hoping for traction to Vatican II’s call for Roman Catholic bishops to take more appropriate local leadership rather than being seen merely as local representatives of the Pope. My
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There is confusion amongst some (many) that somehow the Church of England’s 1662 Book of Common Prayer is normative for Anglicans throughout the world. It is not. [Some of this confusion may be apparent in the Jerusalem Declaration of GAFCON meeting recently]. I would need some convincing that Thomas Cranmer would have agreed with the
Celebrating the Eucharist: A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers by Patrick Malloy [218 pages]. Buy this book. I have no real idea why it has taken six years for me to discover this exists. Then I check – it is not in our local Theology House library; it is not in
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Regulars here will have read my thinking through the practice of lavabo, washing hands before prayer, and its presence in the Abrahamic religions. Whenever I enter a church and pass by the filled baptism font on my way in, I dip my hand in the water and sign myself with the cross. If I think
