I believe One Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church. Book of Common Prayer from 1549-1928 I believe one church, one Christian community. I’ve already explained that “I believe in one church” may be better expressed as “I believe one church“. And there are many ways to think about that. 1) Spiritually there is only one church.
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I only realtively recently fell over some research that the whole 8-hours-sleep-in-a-row pattern is relatively recent (see here, here, and here). The research of Roger Ekirch, professor of History at Virginia Tech, (presented in his book At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past) indicates we used to sleep in two shorter periods with wakefulness of
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According to me, General Synod Te Hinota Whanui (GSTHW) has messed up in its regulations about weddings. I would, once again, love to be demonstrated to be incorrect. GSTHW has quietly swept previous liturgical irregularities it had produced under the ever-lumpier carpet. With so much debate around marriage it is a little surprising that it
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A conservative evangelical facebook friend shared an image with a “LOL!” about three wise women arriving at the Bethlehem scene – asking directions, arriving on time, helping deliver the baby, bringing sensible gifts, cleaning the stable, making a casserole,… and there would be peace on earth! I began to wonder how my friend would react
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“I like Jesus – but I don’t go to church.” OK. Anyone who has been paying attention would be concerned. I’ve seen Christian communities I care about, approximately halve in numbers of people participating in the last fifteen years or so (a period in which the country’s population grew by 20%). The NZ Census figures
The Bible is the Church’s Photo Album. A family’s photo album collects precious memories of the family. The photos have been arranged in a particular way. The family gathers around the album to re-tell its stories. The album maintains the family’s sense of identity. They cannot go back to the time of those stories and
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I have a mathematics degree, and I’m not afraid to use it. Full disclosure: past performance is no guarantee of future results. The 2013 Census data on religious affiliation released by Statistics New Zealand on December 10 graphically looks like this: Professor Peter Lineham says: Anglican affiliation has declined 17 percent – from 554,925 to
