A very helpful chart for those who keep referring to the biblical standard of marriage. Click on the chart to enlarge. Click on it again to enlarge again. I try to credit the source of things when possible – I have searched for the origin of this chart without success. I have seen it in
Our newspaper recently had an article about a scandal affecting the world’s largest Christian television network, Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) was created 39 years ago by Paul and Janice Crouch, a husband and wife who espouse a “prosperity gospel” – the message being that followers must give to the Lord
Margaret Orleans responded to a recent post here by pointing to a cookie recipe “in the style of the revised missal translation” that, apparently, has been spreading around some blogs. With the slightest of revisions, here it is: Cookie Recipe (Revised Translation) Serves: You and many. Having procured one chalice butter, 2/3 chalice sugar, cream
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The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission has completed the second meeting of its new phase (ARCIC III) in Kowloon, Hong Kong (3-10 May 2012). The Commission, chaired by the Most Revd David Moxon (Anglican Archbishop of the New Zealand Dioceses) and the Most Revd Bernard Longley (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham) comprises nineteen theologians from a
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This is a fairly simple, effective welcoming video. You could easily embed it on your own church’s website. Even better: why not make your own welcoming video – easily done, upload it to YouTube, embed it on your community’s website. And let us know about it.
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Regulars here will know that the NZ Lectionary publication is an easy target for a blog post about liturgical confusion. It has been three weeks since my last post about this – I have successfully been resisting the temptation to point out issues in the NZ Lectionary. But regulars will also know that when it
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Since 2005 there has been confusion whether married Roman Catholic deacons may have sex with their wives. It is a little surprising to me that for a church that usually dots its i’s and crosses its t’s the reintroduction of the married diaconate was not done with a little more care and thought about the
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13 It was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in
