What can we do this Advent? Be more about compassion and less about consumption. Be more about presence and less about presents. Incarnation isn’t about escaping from our human stresses – quite the opposite – incarnation is entering our ordinary, messy human lives more deeply… Set up a wreath with the four Advent candles, lighting
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Advent 2 December 6 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by BCP TEC and others) Advent 2 December 6 reflection from the collect/opening prayer (used by CofE Common Worship and others) Don’t forget the Online Chapel with lots of resources of prayers and readings and reflections – many changing daily. The HTML for adding this
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John Cage (1912–1992) composed Four minutes, thirty-three seconds (or “Four, thirty-three”) in 1952. The score states the performer(s) do not play an instrument through three movements (thirty seconds, two minutes and twenty-three seconds, one minute and forty seconds). For the premiere David Tudor sat at a piano and closed the keyboard lid. Some time later
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So many Christian communities appear to be in survival mode – the “How do we get people in through our doors? How do we keep them here? How do we get young people?” mentality. [Young people, I promise you, can smell the bait-and-switch approach of many communities a mile away – and stay away]. What
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Vincent Murphy, one of my followers on twitter, and a regular commenter on this site, has on his site uncovered the program for the creation of the universe (you can follow the verses in Genesis 1 indicated eg. // 1:1-5): [word@god ~]# cat creation.word #!/bin/word // 1:1-5 begin creation public earth = new domain(); earth.content
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My first degree is in Science, my second degree is in Theology. I do not see a conflict between Science and Religion or Spirituality. I do not see how measuring the thickness of the paint on the Mona Lisa, or analysing its chemical composition, or measuring the wavelengths of the light it reflects conflicts with
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This site regularly collects contributions from readers in such areas as best online bible study resources, best online hymn study resources, best online lectionary resources in order to be a central place where people can turn for good quality information. More and more people have an iPhone or an IPod Touch. A pastor, priest, or
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I genuinely thought that my previous post on the Purity Solutions communion wafer dispenser was a wonderful well-executed spoof. Then a person tweeted me that he had seen these for sale, and finally added his comment on the blog post. I am rendered speechless! On facebook a person suggested I search “communion host dispenser”. I
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