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Yes, blogging (and responding to your comments) is light, but I’ve had a busy weekend in Canterbury (more soon) and with church, and this week we have our Holiday Club. My incumbent isn’t well so I’m picking up most of his workload as well (prayer appreciated for myself and for him and his family). I’ll [...]
As you can see from the graphic on the right, next Monday and Tuesday are the crunch moments for the Human Embryology Bill. There are four crucial votes on matters of deep theological significance related to our understanding of the sanctity of life.
I wrote a piece two months ago outlining some of the moral objections [...]
Just a quick "thank you" to everybody who’s prayed for us over the past three days. Gayle’s milk has kicked in, Reuben is lapping it up and has done three nice long sleeps (2+ hours) without swaddling. All we need now is a nice browny yellow poo and we’ll know we’re on the way.
Do please [...]
By Scott Cairns
Your petitions—though they continue to bear
just the one signature—have been duly recorded.
Your anxieties—despite their constant,
relatively narrow scope and inadvertent
entertainment value—nonetheless serve
to bring your person vividly to mind.
Your repentance—all but obscured beneath
a burgeoning, yellow fog of frankly more
conspicuous resentment—is sufficient.
Your intermittent concern for the sick,
the suffering, the needy poor is sometimes
recognizable to me, if [...]
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 [...]
The UK threat level is now at critical (though also at “hilarious” thanks to this cartoon) and almost every hour brings more news. Two more arrested this morning and a suspect package this afternoon in the hospital where the suspect from the Glasgow Airport attack is currently being treated.
One reaction to the attack on innocents [...]
I’m at a prayer conference in Oxford raising prayer for Tanzania. More news and comment when I get home.
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Have a careful read again of David Anderson’s press release just an hour ago. Look again at these two sentences:
“The primates are expected to make a decision on TEC’s status in the Communion, and on the requests by U.S. orthodox for alternative primatial oversight, before their meeting ends Monday, Feb. 19″ [...]
Some brilliant meditation from Jill W on the current prayers for Tanzania:
We are in a kaleidoscope moment - a reconfiguration, a flicker of darkness between two gleaming moments of beauty and light. In this flicker of darkness, I can’t know the outcome. I can’t know how the covenant will shape the church or how the [...]
It’s the 17th of January so it’s St Anthony of Egypt Day. Huzzah!!!!
So who is Anthony? Well, he was the founder of the whole monastic tradition we know today (and have had for 1,500 years). Basically, he got fed up with the hypocrisy of the lifestyles of the Christians he was around (church on [...]
Aaahhh… this one takes me back. Space Brothers - Shine.
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I am the heart, I need the heartbeat
I am the eyes, I need the sight
I realize that I am just a body
I need the life
I move my feet, I go through the motions
But who’ll give purpose to chance
I am the dancer
I need the Lord of the dance
I am the heart, He is the heartbeat
I am [...]
Lent & Beyond is hosting a 38 day pray-a-thon in the run-up to the Primates Meeting in February. Click the piccie below to go and find out more.
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My car won’t start for the second morning in succession, so it’s going into the Garage to find out why. Thank goodness they can sort me out a courtesy car and thank goodness it’s under warranty. Do pray though, because both my boss have got “stress” in different areas of our lives at the moment, [...]
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