YouTube, WeTube and ?
December 26, 2007
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If you missed it, the Queen’s Christmas message is available at the Royal Channel on YouTube, also known as WeTube. YouTube has also become a
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Pay that latte forward
December 26, 2007
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People like to give. Example: At the Starbucks on 116th Street NE in Marysville, Washington, a chain of more than 350 people bought coffee for
Mystery worshippers coming to a church near you
December 26, 2007
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Christian Research (UK) wants non-Christians to assess the churches because, in common with increasing numbers of church leaders, the organisation wishes to find out what does and does not work for the reluctant churchgoer. Christian Research is working with ShipofFools to promote the project.
People ignore the noble aims of festivals
December 26, 2007
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(Updated) The movement of the Muslim lunar calendar placed the festival of Eid al Adha (??? ??????) in the week before Christmas this year. In
A brief history of Christmas
December 25, 2007
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Christmas famously “comes but once a year.” In fact, however, it comes twice. The Christmas of the Nativity, the manger and Christ child, the wise
Crocodile outside stable?
December 25, 2007
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What animals were there when baby Jesus was born?
Matthew, age six: “There were sheep, horses and a crocodile outside the stable.” Ruby, age six: “At his birth there were oxens, a donkey, three camels, three birds – all white – and three cats, all black.”
Top 10 carols
December 25, 2007
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without singing a few carols, but what are the origins of the familiar words and tunes we sing every year? Read
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas Sermon
December 25, 2007
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Rowan Williams draws on the writings of St. John of the Cross in his Christmas sermon: And the angels sing at the wedding in Bethlehem, the marriage of heaven and earth, where, in the haunting final stanza of the great poetic sequence, humanity senses the joy of God himself, and the only one in the scene who is weeping is the child, the child who is God in the flesh:
The original St. Nick
December 24, 2007
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Canon Jim Rosenthal’s alter ego is the star of this You Tube video filmed on Saint Nicholas Day in Canterbury. Rowan Williams has a supporting
Christmas wishes from around the Anglican Communion
December 24, 2007
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The leaders of the Anglican Communion are releasing Christmas messages, and you can read them here. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church
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