“Or”, the board game, has simple rules. But can take a lifetime to master (sorry – “to mistress”). The board consists of the parishes and ministry units of New Zealand Anglicanism, the Anglican Church of Or. To move along the board one can only move to an adjoining square if both parishes used a same
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My favourite bit above (1:05): This is our new auto-flame feature and that automatically generates a randomly chosen insult that’ll appear as a reply to the comment you clicked on. The great thing about this is that if the user who posted the original comment writes back, auto-flame will automatically reply to their reply. So
The bishops of the Church of England recently produced a plan in the hope of passing legislation to be able to ordain women bishops by 2015. This follows the defeat of legislation attempting to authorise this move in the CofE’s General Synod six months ago. I last wrote about this in November last year. There
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Gregory wanted to become a Christian. Part of that secret, underground group in this, one of the early centuries after Jesus. Gregory had been prepared over a period, but still didn’t know exactly what would happen this night. There was fasting, praying, reading, singing all night… Before dawn he was faced West and asked if
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Consumerism is a religion. The one who dies with the most stuff wins. Shopping malls are the temples… And shopping assistants are increasingly acting like they are the new dispensers of pastoral care: “How are you today?” “Have you had a busy weekend?” (that’s the Protestant/Catholic/Calvinist work-ethic denomination where busy = positive). “What have you
I believe in God. Don’t tell me you don’t. This isn’t about belief in the sense of “I think this is correct”, where “I believe” is taken as a synonym for “I think that”. This isn’t like “I believe that Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark”. That makes no real difference in my life. It’s
I cannot recommend highly enough both the book and the DVD of Life of Pi. The book, by Yann Martel, tells a tale that anyone interested in religion or spirituality can appreciate. It has some slow bits – stay with it. I did not think it would translate to film. But it did. I especially
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