This is the fourth post in a series that I started by saying that I know in my heart what I mean, but I may express it so poorly that I will be misunderstood. I have been trying to write about communities that focus more on prayer than on programmes, more on God than on
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Even our local newspaper, never much interested in religion except when there is scandal involved, has mentioned the decision of Church of England Bishop John Broadhurst to join the Roman Catholic Church. John Broadhurst, 68, is leaving the Anglican Church because he does not accept the validity of women’s ordination. And his response is to
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This is the third post in a series that I started by saying that I know in my heart what I mean, but I may express it so poorly that I will be misunderstood. This post I think can even be more easily misunderstood than the previous ones – but I think the concept is
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On Monday I will talk to over 650 young people about priesthood and how I got to be a priest. Last Monday about 130 of these young men aged about 16 years old went to a careers expo. In the past the Anglican Diocese has had a stall there with an attractive brochure about priesthood
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Pope Benedict XVI is not the flavour of the month in some contexts. So if you are looking for an alternative for pope, might I suggest Pope Michael I: “Pope Michael” Trailer from Pope Michael Documentary on Vimeo. David Bawden was elected Pope Michael I in Kansas in 1990. According to him and his followers,
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I have been developing a theology and practice here of ordained priesthood/presbyterate where presiding-preaching-pastoring are three intimately intertwined, irreducible dimensions. This post might be regarded as a fourth (in a trilogy) reflecting on: being ordained directly to the order to which God calls you using the symbolism of another order acting out the ministry of
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I see, from time to time, discussions about “lay presidency” of the Eucharist. In favour of this, regularly the eucharistic rite is dismembered and the discussion quickly degenerates to, “why can a lay person do this bit and not that bit?” This functionalism and legalism is often emotionally undergirded with an anti-catholic attitude {Sydney Anglicans
On Saturday Kelvin Wright was ordained bishop in St Paul’s cathedral, Dunedin. The number of bishops in our province is now 31. He is the first to run a blog. I hope it will continue. I also hope, from time to time, he might pop in to this site. And I hope he will consider
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