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Day: January 3, 2008

Bless, O Lord, this creature beer

January 3, 2008 4 Comments

In Gatineau, Quebec, the oldest Protestant church in the Ottawa Valley stands deconsecrated and empty since late 2006. The century-old stone building is the third church to stand on the site; previous ones had burned down in fires. Now, a businessman wants to buy the church building and convert it into a brewpub and entertainment site, but the remnants of St. Andrew’s congregation aren’t keen on the idea.

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Two cheers for dithering

January 3, 2008 No Comments

Over the last few years, Dr Rowan Williams has sometimes looked criminally innocent; sometimes merely well-meaning but powerless; very occasionally he has looked as if he is working to an angelically cunning plan. This week has been a good week for the cunning plan interpretation, writes Andrew Brown.

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Tutu in Kenya

January 3, 2008 No Comments

Five days after President Mwai Kibaki unexpectedly defeated Raila Odinga, ethnic violence continues to ravage the country and its attorney general has called for an independent verification of the vote tallies. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has gone to Kenya to help mediate the explosive situation, which has turned the generally stable nation on its ear.

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Life, going on

January 3, 2008 No Comments

One is a retired priest; the other is a retiree that became a priest. Two separate stories in two different regions of the country, yet both resonate the theme that we never need retire from faith.

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A rector’s lexicon

January 3, 2008 4 Comments

The process” as we like to call it from the inside, at least, was unbelievably annoying at times, but also deeply nurturing and formative for me, and I wouldn’t want to give it back. But what does our choice of words to describe it say to a post-Christian world? Is it just a bunch of episco-speak devoid of meaning for anyone other than the initiated? I wonder.

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The saving name

January 3, 2008 No Comments

Loving God,

whose angels proclaimed

the saving name of Mary’s child,

grant that we might live each day

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