Blogging bishops, July 21
July 22, 2008
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The Indaba groups began meeting Monday to explore their commonalities as Anglican bishops. Most, but not all, of the bishops who blog seem to feel
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The Artistic Ministry
July 22, 2008
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Perhaps you have had the joyful opportunity of feeling God’s presence through the beauty of lovely choirs, through the glooming light that crosses stained glass windows, through various art exhibits, and even through well-chanted liturgies. All of these have something in common: they are the fruit of the human creative process, with the sole purpose of worshipping the One to whom all glory and honor should be given.
First witness
July 22, 2008
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The tradition that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute is among the most extraordinary and implausible inventions ever woven out of gospel texts. The reasoning behind the tradition followed this far-fetched course: the woman who anointed Jesus in Luke (7:36-50) was ‘a sinner’;
Ancient Bible to be put online
July 21, 2008
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The oldest surviving New Testament manuscript is being assembled and placed online as a resource for scholars and students. The British Library says the full text of the Codex Sinaiticus will be available to Web users by next July, digitally reconnecting parts that are held in Britain, Russia, Germany and a monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.
Venables blindsided
July 21, 2008
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He was diplomatic about it, but it was clearly vexing to the primate of the Southern Cone, Greg Venables, that he had neither seen nor agreed to the published response to the St Andrew’s draft Covenant, issued by GAFCON on Friday in his name and those of six African primates.
Live: ABC meets the press
July 21, 2008
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Archbishop Rowan Williams met the press this morning in a facility know as the Missing Link building, and unlike Saturday’s “interview” with Tom Wright, I did not make that up. He answered one of the key questions put to him with great clarity, another with evasion, and a third with intriguing nuance.
Live: trivial pursuits
July 21, 2008
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With so little happening, the media is parsing trivialities. It turns out that the purportedly Buddhist chant with which the Right Reverend Duleep de Chickera, the Bishop of Colombo, concluded his sermon at yesterday’s opening Eucharist was actually a profession of faith in the Trinity chanted in what struck many listeners as a Buddhist fashion.
The role of doubt in religion
July 21, 2008
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Peter Steinfels has a provocative column in the New York Times that discusses the importance of doubt to our modern faith. The question he raises is this: is our doubt a transition to a life without faith? Or is modern faith simply more comfortable with doubt? While inconclusive, the data seems to point to the first option.
Words and meanings: communion & community
July 21, 2008
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In this brief space between GAFCON and the heart of Lambeth, I have been indulging in word play. It can be a vice. It can be seen as silly. But, here’s the thing: we are people of a faith in which words have meaning. God created by speaking. God came among us in the Word; and it is in the written Word that we in our generation know of these things
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