This is a sort of Liturgy and Law 3.5 post (See here, here and here). I have been suggesting a model of liturgical law as being more descriptive than prescriptive. And I hedge that about with cautions so that this model in itself doesn’t become prescriptive! So let’s be honest with ourselves and describe what
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I have seen the image (left) more than once on facebook. It is, of course, absolute nonsense – misinformation from The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (Official) [sic] facebook page. It has had 68,834 shares by people who uncritically follow a page that describes its mission as, “to support…critical thinking and evidence-based understanding…”
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The shocked reaction, by some, to the above photo, is to assure people that it is photoshopped. You can, they tell us, notice by a crease on the pope’s leg, and by the shiny triangle… etc. etc. Yes, Pope Francis’ style is a bit different. The photo isn’t photoshopped. Here are two images for people
A lot of it is our own fault as Christians: “Do you believe in Jesus?” has the same configuration as, “Do you believe in Santa Clause?” and “Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy?” For about three weeks now, there has been an almost-daily debate raging in our local newspaper whether Jesus was actually an
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I have been trying to encourage Christian individuals and communities to mission and ministry on and through the technological revolution we are in. “Church website” and “rate the church website” are a couple of recent posts of mine, for example. I am not the only one. Kelvin Holdsworth, Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, is
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ΙΧΘΥΣ is Greek for fish. It is an acronym for Ίησοῦς Jesus Χριστός Christ Θεοῦ God’s Υἱός Son Σωτήρ Saviour (Iēsous Christos, Theou Huios, Sōtēr) The letters can be combined to form a spoked wheel, as in this image at Ephesus: In the days that Christianity was illegal, and you wanted to check if someone
The Archbishop of Canterbury addressed the Synod of Bishops in Rome, fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council. He connected contemplation and evangelisation. This comes synchronously as we, here, urge worship, liturgy, the contemplative life to be seen more explicitly centrally to our life and mission as church (also see here). …To
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The English curriculum is a clear instance of the approach under-girding the new New Zealand Curriculum: “In English, there are two strands: ‘making meaning’ and ‘creating meaning’.” Did you notice there is no strand “discovering meaning… understanding meaning…”? You can hear echoes of “The Death of the Author” approach. In “The Death of the Author”
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This is a post reflecting on communication within my church – specifically, could communication about General Synod Te Hinota Whanui (GSTHW) be improved? IMO Yes. A lot. And easily. And without expense. [Update 22 August 2012: The print version of the quarterly provincial magazine Anglican Taonga is out, majoring on General Synod Te Hinota Whanui.
…Let’s just take a moment’s break from speaking about spirituality, especially spirituality and science. So, it looks like the God Particle has been shown to exist. The Higgs Boson, yes. Nothing to do with God, of course – don’t take that literally. [Nobel Prize-winning physicist] Leon Lederman called it the God particle. It talks to
