Year: 2010

CofE Weddings Project

The website offers a selection of locations, hymns, catering, all the ingredients of a wedding. And then, after the church has waved the happy couple off on their honeymoon, they hope that same couple will keep in touch and find themselves more involved with church life.

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Child sex abuse: bishop faces up to problems

As the Roman Catholic Church is engulfed by ‘a tide of sleaze’, the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton Kieran Conry told [Gledhill] that in countries such as Ireland, it could take generations for it to recover, if indeed it ever does.

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Presiding Bishop: Easter 2010

Easter prods and provokes us with an immense stretching exercise. God has renewed a life given to the evil of this world on behalf of those with no other helper. That earth-shattering and tomb-shattering rebirth has planted the seeds of hope in each one of us. Yet those seeds do not produce fruit without struggle.

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Encompassing prayers

May God free me from every wickedness,

May God free me from every entrapment,

May God free me from every gully,

From every tortuous road, from every slough.

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Burning bushes

Holy ground is where fathers and sons can stand around together. Mothers and daughters, too. With nothing important to do except burn something. With nothing important to say, except maybe “It is what it is.” The standing around is more fascinating than the words. Something powerful is burning all around us.

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The art of devotion

The Rev. Gail Wheatley took a leap of faith when she asked the parishioners at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Port Angeles last summer to submit artwork portraying the 14 Stations of the Cross. The response and the results took her by surprise. Fourteen members of the congregation came forward, each one creating a work of devotion that was both personal and inspirational.

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