Religious Studies in Schools?
Antitheists are getting restless again. It’s back to an oldie but a goodie: trying to prevent religious and values education happening on NZ State School property (eg. here and here). Don’t expect any consistency from them (of course). It’s not like they want to prevent students singing hymns to God! With both New Zealand’s national
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What to do with burse and veil?
I recently visited a church building which presented ecclesiastical paraphernalia attractively in some cabinets (images). People obviously put love, care, and devotion into making these things. And also gifting them in memory of others. When they are no longer appropriate in a renewed context, leaving them in drawers and cupboards to the moths may not
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Don’t read the collect aloud together
Don’t read the collect aloud together. There is a trend in NZ Anglicanism to read the collect at the Eucharist aloud together as a community. Don’t do it. I would love to know the history of this development. I would be interested if this is popular and/or growing in other denominations? In other countries? Although
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The Low Churchman’s guide to Solemn High Mass
Since last month there is a wonderful new site: The Low Churchman’s guide to Solemn High Mass “Keeping loyal Anglicans safe from supersticion since 2013”. Here is a sample of what it offers: THE SARUM USE If two Ritualists happen to meet in the street, before long their conversation will turn to something called the
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Coffee Machine Church
Let me tell you a parable. I was at an Anglican conference recently. There was a coffee machine. After some experience with this machine, I pointed out it was a parable of the Anglican Church (for you, it might be a parable of yours or another church): It looks big, and flash, and fancy; and
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Crucified under Pontius Pilate
If we were having this conversation in 1960 it might have gone a bit differently. All we had about Pontius Pilate in 1960 was a few lines in the four gospels, and a reference in Philo, and another in Josephus. So Pilate was a bit of a shadowy figure, and we were a little unsure
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Mount Athos
An unprecedented documentary of life on the Holy Mountain, a place rarely seen, where prayer has been offered every day for more than a thousand years. I have had the blessing of being there.