Recently I was in the Nelson diocese. I spotted a lot of simple, attractive leaflets (see image above) explaining about weddings in the different Anglican churches of the diocese. I have often written about my sadness that churches have been poor at indicating what we offer (weddings, funerals,…). So 5 points to the Nelson Diocese.
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The Torah reading today, Heshvan 8, 5772 (November 5, 2011) in the synagogue is called Lekh Lekha Gen 12:1-17:27 Lech Lecha Lyrics by Stereo Sinai Vayomer Hashem el Avram, lech lecha Avram says I’m beautiful So much so he hides me away But now I’m growing old And it’s time to go Should I laugh
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Breaking news: Tikanga Maori has rejected the Anglican Covenant In order for people to understand the significance of this news, you need to comprehend the decision-making processes of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Like other Anglican Churches, a decision made (for example at General Synod/te Hinota Whanui) needs the agreement of
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Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell (224 pages) This book is (surprisingly) controversial. Many Christian book stores refused to stock it. Some hid it under the counter, passing it across surreptitiously in a brown paper bag. Rupert Murdoch-owned Zondervan (publisher of NIV),
When I travel around I’ve been noticing church notice boards. Or sometimes (often?) not noticing them! I see church notice boards parallel to the road – who does the church think reads these? Passengers in a car? How much time do they think they have to read it? So how much information do they put
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Textweek resources Readings • collect/opening prayer reflection for November 6 and the week following (NZPB) • collect/opening prayer reflection for November 6 and the week following (TEC BCP) Common Worship – CofE: God, the giver of life, whose Holy Spirit wells up within your Church: by the Spirit’s gifts equip us to live the gospel
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Thanks to people who pointed out the above video. Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual travelling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly – I’ll come back to this) random motion. I love some of the comments: “Does it do the same pattern every time or is it random?”
I recently tripped over the documentary, “Divided”. It is arguing against siloing the Christian community into different age groups. What particularly interested me is that it comes from the part of the Christian spectrum that has been arguing for siloing. “Church growth” models have been advocating having services where people are similar to each other
