Why bother confirming?
John H has picked up a fantastic post by All the Fullness on how confirmation snuck into our churches by the backdoor and ended up confusing the whole “who’s in and out” issue on communion. In the early Church, baptism, …
Author: Peter Ould
Pray hard and then pray again…
This just in from the BBC. There are two things this could mean. Firstly it might just be posturing by the NK government, just a diplomatic manouvere to put pressure on the US. Of course, if they go ahead and …
Austria – Pretty Well Final Result
SPÖ – 35.7 % – 68 Seats ÖVP – 34.2% – 66 Seats FPÖ – 11.2% – 21 Seats Grüne – 10.5% – 20 Seats BZÖ – 4.2% – 8 Seats As Peter Westenthaler has pointed out, there is technically …
Austria – Exit Polls show totally hung Parliament
17:30 – Doubt is now being expressed that the BZÖ will pick up a constituency seat in Kärnten and that might have knock on effects on whether they reach 4%. If they get wiped out of Parliament then a Red …
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Austrian Elections
For anybody who’s interested, I’m thinking of live-blogging the Austrian Election results here between about 4 and 6pm UK time this afternoon (by which time we should probably know the outcome). Before that I’ve got an 8am BCP Communion, an …
Angels from the Realms of Glory…
Did you know that there were so many of them? Today in the Anglican Church is the Feast Day of Michael and all the assembled angel hordes. You know the dudes. 8 foot, kick-*** fellas in the Bible who, if …