Today, Bill Warner became the 50,000th follower of Liturgy on Twitter. And if you understand how twitter works: @Liturgy is included in nearly a thousand lists! I don’t know if there is a “typical” follower of @Liturgy, Bill has had nearly four decades of experience in the computer industry, with the last two decades as
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Reflections based on the collect 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time February 14 reflection from the collect/opening prayer 6th Sunday after the Epiphany February 14 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (TEC BCP USA) Most using the Revised Common Lectionary will be celebrating Transfiguration Sunday this Sunday (the Sunday before Lent), with the Gospel reading as Luke
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I first read about the Australian Fr Lazarus, living in the cave of St Anthony, in the book Desert Father: In the Desert with Saint Anthony. I wasn’t sure if Fr Lazarus actually was a useful literary construct rather than an actual person until I watched the BBC series of Fr Peter Owen-Jones Extreme Pilgrim
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Bible Alone It continues to intrigue me that those who hold to a Bible-Alone, sola scriptura position regularly continue to clamour in favour of the proposed Anglican Covenant. This more protestant, “reformed” end of the Anglican spectrum on the one hand claims the Bible Alone is totally sufficient for all our Christian needs, that the
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Currently one of the most visited page on this site is “Ash Wednesday”. People are starting to seriously prepare for Lent. Please add in the comments section below your ideas, resources, websites, hymns, prayers – anything which will help us all, together, in our preparations for Lent. Here are some links to start off: Shrove
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I intend to post reviews, from time to time, of different study bibles. Prior to commencing that series, I think it helpful if I write a little on the translation I would recommend if you do not read Hebrew and Greek. I recommend the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), with the extra comment that, those
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The dark side of the internet As with any powerful gift (eg. money, sex, power), the internet can be used for great good and for great evil. From time to time I receive stories of marriage failures attributed to the internet, cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking. The internet can be a tragic time-waster. Anonymous trolls can make comments
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The Dog Illusion Lolcats are an internet meme. The antitheist Richard Dawkins introduced the word “meme” in The Selfish Gene (1976) from the Greek μιμητισμός (something imitated). I hope you’ve seen the Dog-God video. See also “do dogs go to heaven?”. Any other (humorous) images, thoughts, or video clips about cats (dogs) spirituality etc. –
