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Children in Church
I have long been passionate about having children in church. This is a Throwback-Thursday post that is certainly worth repeating. One of the chapters in my book Celebrating Eucharist is Chapter 18 – Children at the Eucharist. At a synod I attended, our church’s national youth adviser stood up and declared that our years of
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Sell Your Church Property to Serve Your Shrinking Congregation
For church communities with a shrinking number of people in the congregation and where the average age of those in the congregation keeps getting older, there is a new way to finance ongoing ministry to the people in such congregations. These people, these communities, are usually asset rich and cash poor. Previously, once the last
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New Bishop of Christchurch for New Times
On Saturday, the Rev. Dr Peter Carrell was ordained a bishop, and then installed as the 9th Bishop of Christchurch in Cathedral Square in front of the quake-damaged cathedral. Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury, is an Anglican settlement, New Zealand’s first city because of the cathedral. The cathedral will be reconstructed. This is to
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Christchurch Bishop-elect Peter Carrell
I am absolutely delighted to announce that my friend, regular commenter here, member of the Board of the school where I serve, fellow blogger, Peter Carrell has been announced to become the Ninth Anglican Bishop of Christchurch. The Venerable Dr Peter Carrell (born 1959, deacon 1986, priest 1987) is Director of Theology House and Director
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The Episcopal Church General Convention 2018
The Episcopal Church (TEC) has just held its General Convention – this is its highest level of governance. New Zealand’s Anglican Archbishop Philip Richardson has just returned from this TEC General Convention in Texas. You can read about his experience here. Whilst it “parallels our General Synod Te Hinota Whanui” – we are talking quite
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Anglicans and Roman Catholics
The main point of this post is to point out that the following document is now available: Walking Together on the Way Learning to Be the Church—Local, Regional, Universal. An Agreed Statement of the Third Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III) Erfurt 2017. It is a 77 page document, and so will take some digesting.
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About Anglicanism
I recently spotted a letter to the editor (above) in our local newspaper, The Press. What struck me was that pretty much every suggestion for improvement of the Anglican Church is already a reality. The letter suggested that scriptures be read with an eye on the ancient context in which they were written – tick
Which Millennium Does Your Church Live In?
So you were a visitor somewhere. Or you were a local who wanted to go to a church service at Easter time. For any number of reasons, you wanted to know local church (Holy Week, Triduum) Easter service times. How easy is it to find your local church times? If you want to go to
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