Sydney’s Anglican diocesan synod has affirmed that deacons may preside at the eucharist. Sydney Anglicans, unsatisfied with being as protestant/neo-puritan as possible within Anglicanism’s wide spectrum, have decided to continue to be hell-bent to destroy catholicism. Without changing any legislation, they have used Orwellian newspeak to affirm that deacons may preside at the eucharist under
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Richard Hooker (March 1554 – 3 November 1600) clearly articulated a via media (middle way) eschewing Roman additions and puritan, protestant subtractions. His strongly eirenic position and methodology is as relevant today as four centuries ago. In response to the catch-cry sola scriptura (the Bible alone – the absolute sufficiency of scripture), Hooker highlighted the
You can imagine my surprise when a friend of mine informed me that I am quoted in this week’s edition (17 October) of the Church of England Newspaper. The author of the article has read my reflection Roman Catholics accept Archbishop of Canterbury’s orders? and this is what s/he writes: Lourdes questions for Dr Williams
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Discussion has led to producing this WORSHIP FIRST badge to add to blogs and websites. The HTML for adding this badge to your blog or website is: <br /> <a href=”http://www.liturgy.co.nz” title=”worship first”><img src=”http://www.liturgy.co.nz/images/worship.jpg” alt=”liturgy liturgical worship” border=0 width=150 height=150></a><br /> I contend worship of God is primary and central to our Christian life and
Has New Zealand Anglicanism gone too far in the direction of “creativity” in worship at the expense of liturgy being the work of the (whole) church?
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Some see the move from “thee” (thou, thine) to “you” (yours) as a loss of respect. That is actually not the case – It is more complex than that.
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The Colbert Report highlighted the delicious irony of Anglicanism being a denomination that rejected central authority now having groups of people in it that want a stricter central authority to put their foot down!
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Lambeth Bible Study with Joanna Clegg A famous poet representing the other party (Alexander Pope), once said ‘know thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper study of mankind is man.’ Do you ‘know’ yourself? Can anyone else ever really ‘know’ you? This clip is an alternative account of the passage we looked at in
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