Paradoxy: Creating Christian Community beyond Us and Them Paperback: 180 pages Publisher: Paraclete Press (2010) The author, Ken Howard, sent me a PDF of this book and asked me to be part of a blog series which reviews a chapter at a time. Here are the other blogs involved. Chapter 1: The End of the
I have spent some time wrestling with my original Christchurch earthquake post (and sought help). It appears, from my playing around, that possibly a WordPress blog post may have a limited length after which it starts to misbehave. Badly. (Does anyone know anything about this?) Anyway – so I have decided to move more recent
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From the wonderful Cartoon Church site.
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O give thanks to our God who is good: whose love endures forever. You sun and moon, you stars of the southern sky: give to our God your thanks and praise. Sunrise and sunset, night and day: give to our God your thanks and praise. All mountains and valleys, grassland and scree, glacier, avalanche, mist
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Thanks to regular reader David for pointing to this story. Well-known conservative Roman Catholic internet presence Fr John Zuhlsdorf (Fr Z) was watching the Televised broadcast of the Pope in Westminster Abbey when he just about sprayed his coffee on the screen when the commentator mentioned the stole the Pope was wearing. The Pope’s stole
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The Readings Textweek Resources Roman Catholics and Anglicans share prayer This is the Roman Catholic version of the prayer: Father, you show us your almighty power in your mercy and forgiveness. Continue to fill us with your gifts of love. Help us to hurry towards the eternal life you promise and come to share in
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Having criticised the pope for his choice of Newman’s feast day, and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s clear inability to find a spine and say to the pope that Anglicans are aggrieved, I keep waiting for the knock at the door for the Anglican equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition:
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The great Christian tradition is that for the church’s calendar you celebrate a person on the day of their death. John Henry Newman died August 11, 1890. The Church of England, hence, appropriately, has Newman on the calendar August 11. Today the pope, Benedict XVI, beatifies Newman and announces that for Roman Catholics, Newman’s feast
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