Hanukkah starts on the Hebrew calendar date of 25 Kislev, and lasts for eight days. This year, Hanukkah is from the evening of December 8, 2012 (5773), to December 16, 2012 (5773). The Hanukkah blessings are found here. Place the candles in the menorah. The one that is in the taller position (or separated from
Some months back, I visited Waipu (Northland), and, in the Presbyterian church yard, spotted the above memorial remembering those who died before birth (detail below – people have often put a name or word on the stones behind). I think it was particularly sensitively done, around a topic that too quickly (at least on the
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One of the great things about the community around this site is others sharing resources and ideas. On our facebook page Sam Goodes shared this awesome hymn: We limit not the truth of God To our poor reach of mind, By notions of our day and sect, Crude, partial, and confined. No, let a new
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A question caught my eye on another site. People have been debating for days there whether women can be ordained. In one comment my blogging Kiwi colleague, Peter Carrell asked “do you think that by being ordained we have unwittingly demeaned lay brothers in ministry?” Go to his site if you want to join in
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From one of our community, Debra Bullock, who is attending Slow Advent (have you signed up yet?): I found this on slowfood.com and shared it with my congregation on Sunday: the Slow Food Movement’s goal is “to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling
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New Zealand’s Archbishop David Moxon has accepted the position of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Vatican, and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. David Moxon has been a friend of mine for decades. He is a warm person with true depth of spirituality, a deep bicultural and multicultural understanding, and a catholic
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This post is the third in a new series reflecting on Christian signs, symbols, and similar (Ichthus; Chi Rho). I have not been able to find a very early occurrence of “IHS”. There are some (online) who claim that it is to be found in the catacombs, but I have yet to locate a safe
