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DIY Tabernacling: Holy Objects & Holy Space, at home

March 20, 2016 No Comments

The Spiritual and the Material needn’t compete for our attention or jockey for superiority, but, as St. Teresa goes on to say, reliance on the spiritual is cavalier (and unlikely to bear) without experience in the material: “This withdrawal from the corporeal must doubtless be good, since it is advised by [many of the saints], but it is my belief that it must be practiced only when the soul is very proficient: until then, it is clear, the Creator must be sought through the creatures.”

Hosanna in the highest on this Palm Sunday

March 20, 2016 No Comments

Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

“To be “purely evangelical” is to betray the Christian faith”

March 17, 2016 4 Comments

Twenty-plus years after the formal end of apartheid and the election of government that reflects the majority of citizens in South Africa, the nation continues to struggle with the legacies of racism and colonialism. In an editorial in the Journalist Ace Moloi calls into question both the Church’s complicity and its paucity of meaningful action.

Happy St Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2016 No Comments

Rule of Life: Remembering your relationship with God

March 13, 2016 1 Comment

The first chapter reminds us to member our conversion, be it a moment, a season or a slow dawning over many years. What was your first and primary “yes” to God or have you simply been going with a flow? Remember your “yes.”

Canadian Council of General Synod responds to Bishops statement on marriage equality

March 13, 2016 4 Comments

“In their statement, they wrote that they wondered if a legislative process is “the most helpful way of dealing with these matters”. The Council has also considered other options. If a legislative solution were not the best way to proceed on this question, we would ask the House of Bishops for some concrete examples of other options.”

Faith Reels: Son of Saul…an unforgettable glimpse

March 11, 2016 2 Comments

This week’s review is of the haunting (and award winning) look at the Holocaust, “Son of Saul”

Church growth: people- or location-based strategies?

March 10, 2016 1 Comment

What parallels are there in how we grow the church and how cities do economic development? Should the focus of our development efforts be on people or on places. That is, should we make investments in people, hoping to see them succeed regardless of where they end up? Or should we focus on investments in particular institutions, thus helping the people who are already there?

How closely linked are religious practice and religious belief?

March 10, 2016 4 Comments

Religious doctrine and religious practice often pull apart, and there’s no reason to toss the latter out along with the former.

Those darned church cats

March 10, 2016 4 Comments

Cats, pathetic vis-à-vis both literacy and power, are pathetically if understandably resentful. At the liturgy, while others are glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit by both their being and their willing, cats glorify the Holy Trinity with their being or existence only — and certainly unwillingly.

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