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Tag: Liturgy
Holy Ground: flash mob worship
This is thought to be the first time ‘flash mob’ has been used to generate a ‘random’ act of Christian worship. It took place [April 4], Saturday, at Liverpool One Shopping Centre.
The Way of the Cross
We invite you to enter into meditation on the Way of the Cross. Episcopal Café “Speaking to the Soul” offers four versions of the Stations of the Cross at Multimedia Meditations.
Capturing the castle through the back door
Almost every recent document dealing with Anglican governance speaks of the Instruments of Communion as though they are well-established and widely supported. Yet the attempt to invest these instruments with ecclesiastical authority is barely a decade old, has never been examined in any formal way by the member Churches of the Communion and has never even been approved by the so-called instruments themselves.
A cyber service of remembrance
I went to bed Monday night with my mind awhirl thinking about the folks who were in such pain over Lee’s death. I tried to sleep but the Spirit wouldn’t let me – started to get this idea – this image of a cyber service for all of us who are a virtual family.
Sacred space v. Holy people
Laud and the King agreed that the Anglican practice of gathering the congregation at an altar table for confession, Eucharistic prayer and communion cheapened the Eucharist. Laud was convinced that a set-apart, clergy-only area declared the holiness of the sacrament, so convinced that he punished his most outspoken critics by having their ears cut off and a brand burned into their faces.
Is the HoB Theology Committee stalling?
The 2009 Blue Book online, has a report from the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops:
Railway stations of the cross
The stations of the cross are in Wales, and on Good Friday you can ride the train to each one.
Singing Judith’s song
Do we recognize that Judith sings a new song celebrating the omnipotent Lord who set enemies aside at the hand of a woman? Can we who sing it hear the textual echoes and transformations of God’s spirit in Exodus not now being sent to drown the Egyptians but to effect the creation of the world?
“Traditional” vs. “Contemporary”?
For the healthy future of our church we’ve got to stop thinking and talking as if ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’ were opposites. This hackneyed dichotomy reduces us to a lose/lose battle between caricatured factions – do we want to be a backward-looking ‘traditional’ church bound by nostalgic practices of the last two hundred years or a ‘trendy,’ ‘relevant’ church whoring in uncritical embrace of ‘contemporary’ culture.