If the bishops and senior leaders of Anglicanism forget to articulate the significance of worship, spirituality, and common prayer to our identity, then it is up to us to keep reminding them – and, more importantly, to be living that in our communities.
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The language used to promote ordination and Religious Life (meaning, community, following Jesus, joy, prayer, service…) needs to become the language AND THE REALITY of encouraging people to come to church – to join the common prayer of the gathered Christian community.
Are the majority of us forbidden from using some of the services in the 2020 book with the title A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa? TEC has shown one way forward to solving some of our issues. No Church has needed to deal with the others we’ve uniquely created.
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Is your church using a free, simple, powerful online tool?
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The Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury have come to an unprecedented ecumenical agreement in which Anglicanism will become the home for Latin Mass Lovers who have had the traditional Mass removed by the Pope.
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The Church Year is a mess – for the majority of Christians ultimately a nourishing feast of scripture and tradition. But, by the time this filters down to the way it is used by NZ Anglicanism, the Anglican Church of Or has reworked it to a confused chaos that, in some communities, is worse than the BCP system that it replaces.
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Could we be using some form of image or logo – from websites through flags to church notice boards… and even on face masks?
Theological and pastoral questions about the virtual world are not going away. Avatars acting for individuals in a virtual, digital world have again been much in the news with Facebook changing its company name to Meta last year. This company has been building a metaverse in which digital avatars act as stand-ins for our physical
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I need your help in doing some liturgical detective work. I’ve already had a few behind-the-scenes conversations. It all started with my recent work on NZ Anglican’s moving William Tyndale’s commemoration in favour of commemorating The Saints and Martyrs of Asia on October 6. The rest of the world remembers Tyndale on that date. The
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