Bishop Alan’s Blog: Last Word about the Festive Season

Thursday, 17 January 2008

Last Word about the Festive Season

Says it all, really. Spotted in an Oxfordshire Church by Mary Saunders:

Could this inspire a Carol?

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Real Madrid XI Squad against Sporting - Zidane does a Wenger and rotates his goalkeepers, though the BBC all line up in Los Merengues’ front three. After Barcelona’s MSN took Celtic apart, it is ...
8 years ago
Paul Sibley

Buy HGH Nutritional supplements - Why are we frightened of that particular era, even though we grow old as we live it is nothing new? We are going to be poor and reliant, we shall struggle ...
8 years ago
Church Social Media

Celebrating 5 Years of Weekly #ChSocM Chats! - Many thanks to all who havehelped make this chat and chat community so wonderful! Moving forward...Chat transcripts will be posted to: Our FB pageThe Churc...
8 years ago
Andrew Marin

Don’t Let Your Anger Turn Into Their Hate - Andrew's reflection upon yesterday's LGBT massacre in Orlando. There is a time for anger and activism; healing and hope. Now is a time for mourning. Don't ...
8 years ago
Dave Bish

Every story whispers his name - Since my first son was very young Sally Lloyd-Jones' The Jesus Storybook Bible has been staple reading in our house. We've probably read it 60-70 times t...
8 years ago
N. T. Wrong?

Biblical Studies Carnival CXXII (March 2016) - Yeah, I’m back yo – for a limited time only! I’ve rounded up the best of biblical studies blogging from March 2016 – despite rumors of the death of bloggin...
8 years ago
Daily Telegraph

“Our concert halls are like museums.” Yes, isn’t it wonderful! - I was given a beautiful book for Christmas last year – Rendez-vous with Art by Philippe de Montebello, Director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art fo...
8 years ago
John & Olive Drane

Recalling Dunblane 20 years on - There are some times and places that, no matter how hard we try, are impossible to erase from the memory. Many people of an older generation remember exact...
8 years ago
Phil Simpson

Peace Garden @ Muslim Burial Ground #Woking - The Peace Garden at the restored Muslim Burial Ground at Woodham Common, Woking as featured on BBC recently. Read a description here http://www.bbc.co...
8 years ago
Practising the Presence of God

Advent Sunday - On the hill at Ein Karem in the Holy Land stands a simple statue, of two pregnant women greeting one another. It is in a way shocking, you don't often see...
8 years ago
Fr Ross Northing

Installing Modern Furniture in Your Kitchen - When you move into a house, you might need to customize its appearance. One region, particularly, which is perfect to take into account changing is the ki...
9 years ago
Pete Phillips

BBC airs nine must-see programmes exploring Digital Culture (Sept 14-24) #intelligentmachines #makeitdigital - For those of you interested in all things digital, this week the BBC are focussing on Intelligent Machines (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33978561) ...
9 years ago
Full Of Hope and Joy

Nothing to see here - OK. Hi again. Ive been a tad lackadaisical regarding this blog again. I somehow do not have a lot of time where I can just sit down in front of my computer ...
9 years ago
Neil Addison

Goodbye and God Bless - I began this Blog back in 2008 when Religious Discrimination laws were just being introduced in Britain and I have enjoyed using it to explore the developm...
9 years ago
Bill Duguid

Deal Or No Deal? - As voters throughout the land beg for mercy, this interminable election campaign chugs relentlessly on. The leaders’ debates may be over, apart from a res...
9 years ago
Robin Usher

Testing - Trying out a new app!
9 years ago
Colin Beavan

Blasting this conversation into a massive orbit!!!!! - Hi friends. I wanted to invited you to join me in the continued conversation about how to have a life that is good for ourselves and our world over at Coli...
9 years ago
Biblioblogs

The Societal and Economic Benefits of Casino Gambling - In recent years, there has been an ample amount of debating in regards to the pros and cons of casino gambling. Depending on where you live, you could have...
9 years ago
Sybil Archibald

Bone Icons - My easels, empty vessels waiting to be filled. It’s been a while and I’ve missed you guys! So much has happened- my life, my health, my art- »» No relate...
9 years ago
spiritually directed...

Joyeux Noel - *Wishing everyone a Joyeux Noel * *from the Wisemen and their Landlady!*
9 years ago
Nicola Writes...

The Vicar's Tea Party has landed! - Well, after that anvil sized hint in the last blog post you may have guessed that I am in the process of launching a new blog. You will probably also reali...
10 years ago
Andrew Brown (CIF)

Why I don’t believe people who say they loathe Islam but not Muslims | Andrew Brown - It is psychologically unnatural to claim that you hate an ideology without hating the people in whose lives it is expressed It is a trope among people wh...
10 years ago
Peter Kirk

@JohnPiper, your hope is God, not the Bible - John Piper, the well known pastor, confuses me. Adrian Warnock, who is attending Piper’s current conference, quotes him as saying “Your God is whatever y...
10 years ago
Graham Peacock

A Series of Unfortunate Events - “what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.” ~ Lemony Snicket Dear loyal readers of this blog: a ...
10 years ago
A Blogspotting Anglican Episcopalian

The Valencia Dawkins Challenge: No Consensus on Consensus - Originally posted on Shroud of Turin Blog: Giulio Fanti (pictured) writes: Dear Dan. . . . You have my permission to inform whoever you want of my position:...
10 years ago
The Vernacular Curate

Going Back To Basics - Vicar Style - This is not a post about the style of Vicars, because even as Jesus himself did, we should all wear black and with tonsure collars. Images of Jesus in bei...
10 years ago
Cranmer

Canon Andrew White deserves a knighthood - He doesn't care about temporal honours, of course. You only have to hear the 'Vicar of Baghdad' preach, or take a few minutes to watch the above short fi...
10 years ago
Get Out of Jail Free

Appealing Cartoon. :) -
10 years ago
Simon Marsh

WHO AM I? - TWELVE AROUND TABLE this morning, as of long ago, gathered for burning bush encounter the rabbi said all could and should know. With genius insistence on o...
10 years ago
Peter Adams

Shocked and Honoured! - So this morning it was anounced at St Marys that I am to be made an honorary lay canon of St Albans Cathedral! To be honest although I have known about it ...
10 years ago
John Richardson

Christrian Csomology; Incarnarion and 'Evil' - The topic of CChristinan Cosmology continues to fascinate me because in presenting the demands of the gospel, a I hope to tomorrow, THW Baia on qhixxh we ...
10 years ago
Glyn Evans

- BRIGHTWALTON AND LECKHAMPSTEAD PLOUGH WEDNESDAY Olivia Hall Craggs This brainwave has introduced clergy to farms in the Oxford Diocese, for the last 9 y...
10 years ago
Derek Wright

Get Las Vegas Bankruptcy Lawyer - Many of us nowadays cause a lifestyle which is very quick and we need a lot of cash to fulfill up with these specifications. Somehow cash is a very imagina...
10 years ago
Of course I could be wrong...

THE 2013 ST. LAIKA CHRISTMAS APPEAL GRAND TOTAL - Thank you, Brenda, Karen, Shelley, Dorothy, Michael and David. Your valiant effort in the last furlong resulted in a massive total for this year's Christma...
10 years ago
David's Blog

24th December: the manger waits - From this evening’s Crib Service at St Peter & St Paul, Great Missenden And here’s my tower and moon - will we see this at the midnight service tonight...
10 years ago
Jane Stranz

A sermon from Korea on Luke 19 - Sermon preached at St John’s Anglican Church, Busan during WCC 10th Assembly as part of the weekend congregational visits to local churches (You can read ...
11 years ago
Start The Week

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11 years ago
Riazat Butt

The civil service knows that my dad sprayed vans | Riazat Butt - I applied for the civil service fast stream and was startled by questions about my parents – but monitoring parental background is a step towards greater d...
11 years ago
Norman Geras

Norman Geras: 1943-2013 - I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and communicating wi...
11 years ago
Rosie Ward

Developing women in leadership - How can women grow and develop as leaders within the church? There's a lot going on at the moment, some of it behind the scenes, some of it more visible. ...
11 years ago
St Peter's London Docks

The National Pilgrimage - Pacific blue and cloudless skies at Walsingham on Bank holiday Monday. The scene at Mass through the ranks of concelebrating priests. The weather reflecte...
11 years ago
Bishop Tim Ellis

The Body Politic - It’s been an interesting few weeks. Having recently been interviewed by the media concerning the funeral of Baroness Thatcher, it has been instructive to g...
11 years ago
Sam Norton

Moving on - After eight years, and more than a quarter of a million visits, I have shifted the blog to here. I'd be most grateful if you could update all your settings...
11 years ago
Dan Inman

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11 years ago
Scott Miles

Make The Traveling Procedure Fun And Easy - Flying is something that essentially every little boy (and sometimes girl) goals of. There are unique, however that need to be taken into account for makin...
11 years ago
Sean the Baptist

SNTS in Perth: 23–27 July 2013 - The Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas is holding its annual meeting this year in Perth, Western Australia. I had been planning to go anyway (as a guest of...
11 years ago
Burke's Corner

Beauty services and Products - Do you want to make yourself more beautiful and the are you looking for the best beauty services then this post would be giving you the right information...
11 years ago
Rude Armchair Theology

On a dark day - This is the gospel, the good news: You are loved. No matter what. These are the lost, in need of good news: Every single one of us. This is the Church, the...
11 years ago
William Crawley

Pat Finucane and the Dirty War - A victim of the state, murdered, along with a series of others, with the active intelligence and assistance of British military and police officers. That w...
11 years ago
Andrea Useem

The Magic of Partnerships - I feel like I hear that word so much more often now that I am in the Partnerships business. I was re
12 years ago
Jeremy Parsons

"Charge The Least" - How to put David Cameron's idea into action - A wish by the UK Government that energy companies should be forced to charge customers the lowest price has been in the news lately. However, HMG seems to...
12 years ago
Justin Taylor

National Review Children's Books - The National Review Treasury of Classic Children’s Literature Compiled by William F. Buckley Jr. Original Volume (2002): 528 pages / hardcover / 7” by 10” ...
12 years ago
Fr Stephen Freeman

Temporarily – No Comment - God willing, the content of this blog will be migrated to its new site, starting sometime after midnight (here in East Coast America). I have been asked to...
12 years ago
Anglimergent

"Common Grounding"--Rector and Organist-Choirmaster relationships: We're both leaders and probably worry about the same things! - As a professional Church Musician, I am essentially a pastor just like a priest, vicar, rector, or curate...etc. The only difference is that I help pe...
12 years ago
kingdom grace

Immortality - Almost a year ago, Kansas Bob and I had an interesting conversation on his post, Are all humans immortal? This topic has come up again recently in several ...
12 years ago
Heidi Campbell

Announcing the Launch of the New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies Website - With an increased awareness that religion, rather than fading continues to play an important role in contemporary society, academics, futurist and religio...
12 years ago
The Urban Abbey

New Year Blessing - Dear All: What a wonderful prayer to start off the new year with! This is one that I will incorporate into my daily prayers as a continual reminder of ...
12 years ago
Malcolm Chamberlain

it is finished... - This blog was set up over five years ago, just ahead of me beginning fieldwork in researching for an MPhil thesis. The original post and explanation is 'he...
13 years ago
David Marriott

Rumours of my demise... - ...were pretty much bang on true, but I've got a thing or two more to say. Those heading over here from Christian New Media, or @LSTheology, thank you! Fee...
13 years ago
John Halton

The Plain Fact of the Matter - I’m currently reading Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic, the first of his Discworld series, which I first (and last) read in my teens. One subtlety I...
13 years ago
Craig Gardiner

Prayers for a Day of Myers Briggs - Leader Each of us is different *All but in Christ we are all one* Leader We are extrovert and introvert We live by sense and intuition *All Each of us is ...
13 years ago
Claire Pedrick

- We have moved! You will now find our blog in the 3D Website www.3dcoaching.com See you there!
13 years ago
Twitter Tips

Tweeting with Zombies - A short conversation with author Jonathan Maberry about Twitter and the Undead. © 2008 TwiTip Twitter Tips. [image: twitter-secrets.png] Tweeting with Z...
13 years ago
Jeff McQ

This Blog has Moved - If you forgot to update your bookmarks and would like to follow along at the new blog site, shoot an email to the address on my Blogger profile, and I'll s...
13 years ago
ChurchyDesign

This is just a test - Notification Test
13 years ago
Mr CatOLick

Moved to wordpress - Hiya. I have moved my blog to wordpress WordPress Its mad I know but there you go. MrC
13 years ago
Mark Berry

Tonights Table Communion - Resurrection - Inspired by Paula Gooder's - This Risen Existence RS Thomas - "Suddenly" As I had always known he would come, unannounced, remarkable merely for the absenc...
13 years ago
Robert Peston

Peston Picks is moving - [image: Cardboard Boxes on a trolley] My blog is dead. Long live the new blog. Or to put it another way, my page - and those of other BBC bloggers - is hav...
13 years ago
The Anglican Scotist

Open Communion and Time - Again CWOB is in the news, and however tempting I do not want to revisit my old arguments. Rather, I wish to add a note about how time seems to be conceive...
13 years ago
Anglican Centrist

Do You Cheat On Your Taxes? - By Eric Von Salzen Income taxes are due on April 18th this year, so this is a timely question. According to a survey by DDB Worldwide Communications Grou...
13 years ago
Dustin Cross

Please Help Us Help Them! - WE NEED HELP! One of our friends, Kim Ahern, called the City of Seattle to deal with the constant bedbug problem plaguing her and her family (Jack, age 9 &...
13 years ago
Bishop David Rossdale

A prayer for New Zealand - I was asked today to write a prayer for use in the Diocese for those caught up in the earthquake in New Zealand: Heavenly Father, whose love and care embra...
13 years ago
Adrian Judd

Church Representation Rules - suggested update - From the Church of Scotland. Ideas for amending the church representation rules: 'Responsibility for diligence There is a responsibility and presumption of...
13 years ago
Church Times

The opening of General Synod and the disciplining of the Bishop of Willesden - The ninth General Synod of the Church of England opened this morning with a service in Westeminster Abbey attended by the Queen. The event (in the press ...
14 years ago
BEYOND WORDS

from the other hand - it's been a long time, but i thought i'd pop in for a little visit to say hi and let you all know i miss you! i also wanted to extend some big thank yous ...
14 years ago
Daniel Owen

"My lovely horse..." - [image: 1008fp4023] We came across these friendly fella's on a walk near Courtmacsherry. On looking at the picture now I can't help but laugh as I remembe...
14 years ago
Augustine of Canterbury

Apple-v-Windows - I’m a long time and convicted PC user so my recent purchase and use of an iPhone 3Gs is a little surprising, even to me. *Windows Phones Didn’t Deliver* O...
14 years ago
New Economics Foundation

Danger of ghettoisation of the poor as government axes housing benefit -
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14 years ago
Chris Tilling

This blog has moved - This blog is now located at http://blog.christilling.de/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, ...
14 years ago
Alan Creech

moving day - Well, I thought I was going to wait longer to do this, but the only reason for that is because I'm scared crapless to do it. All the possibilities of thing...
14 years ago
Greg Kandra

Homily for World Priest Day - You can find it over here. It's a re-post of my talk from 2008.
15 years ago
Saint Thérèse of LIsieux

Final Prayer - Loving Father, We thank you for the visit of the relics of St Thérèse to our country. We ask you to draw us more deeply into your love And to fill us with ...
15 years ago
Costigan Quist

Thank you, and goodbye - Conspiracy? Blackmail? The Curse of the BOTYs? Or just changing personal circumstances? I'm tempted, in the style of Derren Brown's lottery shenanigans, to...
15 years ago
Unfinished Christian

Never on Sunday - I know a few Christians who keep Sunday special- so much so they don’t even bother going to church – so I was amazed to read about Dan Walker one of the ...
15 years ago
Bishop Gene Robinson

The Last Word - I am back in my beloved New Hampshire where the clean air and my own bed have banished my fever and restored my health. A nasty bug, enabled by my near exh...
15 years ago
Anglican Wanderings

Holy Name Cathedral - I spent my Independence Day with a friend who lives and ministers in my See City. After an excellent dinner (roasted aspargus and potatoes, and grilled ste...
15 years ago
Judith Schultz

Moved - Hi Folks - I haven't been on much lately not because I haven't had anything to say but I have been in between computers, holiday, assignments etc. I have n...
15 years ago
Pro Clerum

Bishop Alan’s Blog: Hallelujah Chorus for Trappists - I had to post this. Darryl - are you sure that's not you, 6th from the left in the front row? I think we should be told... Bishop Alan’s Blog: Hallelujah ...
15 years ago
On the Inside looking out

The cost of neighbourliness - Not a new post but a continuation of thought... Several people have asked me about the cost of my newfound neighbourliness and I must confess I hadn't give...
15 years ago
Graham Peacock

I have moved- change your links!!! - http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/ Nothing to see here..... move along now....... http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/ Change your links to http://diggin...
15 years ago
Inclusive Church

Programme 2009 - Our programme for 2009 is a great mix of IC introductory roadshows round the country, events on specific topics - inclusive language, including black and m...
15 years ago
Under the Desolating Pestilence

Dershowitz shows the way - Jamie has already opened our eyes to the truth this weekend, with an old Joan Peters interview which reminds us to be more careful when considering sources...
16 years ago
Moot

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 The Becoming of G-d: What the Trinitarian nature of God has to do with Church and a deep Spirituality for the Twenty First Century - I am pleased to say, that at last, the book is available for purchase at £9.95 through YTC Press. This, my second book, seeks to explore the theology beh...
16 years ago
Shane Tucker

A.W. Tozer and Christian Spiritual Formation - Now, how does this sit with you? What are your initial and processed reflections? Labels: A.W. Tozer, coherence, quote, scripture, situational ethics, ...
17 years ago
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ASBO Jesus

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Family Insights

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Mark Russell's reflections

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Christianity Today

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Episcopal Cafe

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Wardman Wire Magazine UK Edition: Who made that great whooshing noise …?

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