Kelvin Holdsworth, Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow, published a fascinating blog post on clergy happiness. Apparently in a list of jobs, clergy come out as being happiest. Happiness as a goal for life is an interesting side discussion. And the original survey is talking about job satisfaction, which I suggest is slightly different
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Rethinking 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is fairly standard now: women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak
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We can waste time and energy, and generate more heat than light, about the Annunciation story – How much of it is history? Is it an extended metaphorical story? Where did Jesus’ other chromosomes come from?… And we miss the point of the story: God became what we are so that you and I might
Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me
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A group meeting for Lent is using Skype to include others in the rural parish of Malvern in New Zealand. The group is working its way through Lynda Paterson and Peter Carrell’s book, Being Disciples: Through Lent With Matthew. They use an iPad set up in the middle of the group of non-virtual participants, but
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Yesterday I wrote a post on the controversy in New Zealand about religious instruction in state/public primary schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. The situation is different for secondary schools. Legally, if a school board wishes to allow someone from the Churches Education Commission to take a lesson the school is “closed” and parents may withdraw
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[Update: There is now a part 2 to this post] For some people heat is rising, as it does from time to time, about religious instruction in state/public primary schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. The law allows class or classes at the [primary] school, or the school as a whole, may be closed at any
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