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Cranmer And Gene Robinson

I was going to blog on the latest interview with Gene Robinson but His Grace beat me to it.
Gay priests are the ‘backbone of the Church’
So says the Bishop of New Hampshire, the Right Rev Gene Robinson, who is divorced from his wife and lives in a partnership with a gay [...]

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Why Pachelbel’s Canon Isn’t Cool (apparently)

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Saturday Humour

In think I went to school with Wilhelm.
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Indescribable

Wow, wow, wow!!!
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Giles Fraser Is Wrong (again)

It gets a bit tedious at times, but nevertheless the first thing I do almost every Friday when the post comes is to turn to Fraser’s column in the Church Times. I like to start the weekend annoyed and this weekend is no exception.
This week Giles wants to destroy the distinction that the church makes [...]

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Floods And Prayer

In our church we’re blessed by having a number of folks who lead us in pray and do so with great insight. This is the prayer that was used this past Sunday. As many of you know, parts of the UK are currently experiencing severe flooding.
MUD
There is mud everywhere
On the furniture, on the door handles,
On [...]

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40 Years On

Channel 4 in the UK has been running a fascinating series of programmes marking the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Crimes Act which legalised gay sex (sodomy to be specific) for consenting adults over the age of 21. Probably the best of the programmes so far was “40 Years Out“, a fascinating panel discussion [...]

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Soup

Mmmmmmmmm
Krupnik
Mmmmmmmmm
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Superchristological And Homoousiosis

Found this on this website. Love the song but pretty dubious about the mariology on the same page.
To the tune of “Supercalafragalisticexpialadocius”
…Um diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle um diddle ay
Superchristological and Homoousiosis
Even though the sound of them is something quite atrocious
You can always count on them to anathemize your Gnosis
Superchristological and Homoousiosis
Um [...]

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Get In The River

An absolutely fantastic sermon Sunday evening from Simon Ponsonby at St Aldates, Oxford. Oxford is currently threatened with serious flooding from the Thames. Click play below to hear Simon’s wisdom on Ezekiel 42.
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Gay Youth

Putting up some more stuff that I’ve written previously. This is a piece that was published four years ago in Youthwork Magazine.
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Why “100% Man And 100% God” Is So Important

A few years ago while at the vicar factory I wrote this piece on the atonement as part of the doctrine course I was taking, led by the fantastically wonderful Alister McGrath. While the first half represents an obligatory overview of the historical growth of the doctrinal understanding of the atonement (and which looking back [...]

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Hereford Judgement Online

The full tribunal judgement is available online here. It’s a 1.2Mb download which I’m going to read now and then comment on if necessary.
OK, my initial thoughts, numbered by sections of the Tribunal’s judgement:
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Down Came The Rain…

See the precipitation in the forecast map below? It’s all just arrived with brother thunder and sister lightning.

Hmmm. As the rain comes down I’m sat in my study typing away (sermon, summer services, bible studies…) and going through all the mp3s on my PC to keep me awake (that and coffee). This track that I [...]

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