Bishop Alan’s Blog: Men

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Clerical Whispers

A family turns to the Vatican after being denied Communion for receiving it on their knees in Charlotte - A family from the Diocese of Charlotte has brought its case before the Vatican after reporting that it was denied Holy Communion on several occasions for...
51 seconds ago
Boing Boing

Deal Days cuts Microsoft Office Professional 2021 from $220 to $30 - [image: Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows] TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for $29.97 (reg. $2...
2 hours ago
Tyler Cowan

Tuesday assorted links - 1. This paper was presented 57 different times!? Is that good or bad? 2. Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton doing “I Got Rhythm.” 3. Claims about advancem...
6 hours ago
Notes from underground

Endymion Spring - [image: Endymion Spring]Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton My rating: 4 of 5 stars A semi-historical fantasy novel for children that jumps between past and ...
13 hours ago
Jessica Hagy (Indexed)

Everything can & will be used against you. - The post Everything can & will be used against you. appeared first on Indexed.
1 day ago
Peter Carrell

The true church is hard to find - To be frank, not a lot this week is motivating me to blog Anglicanly (though see further below). Next week might be better, I think the ACC meeting in Be...
1 day ago
Jonathan Evens

Visual Commentary on Scripture: Establishing the Heart - My Visual Commentary on Scripture exhibition 'Establishing the Heart' is the current exhibition of the week: "The first letter to the church in Thessalonic...
1 day ago
Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley

Liturgy for the Day after Summer Solstice - Archdruid: Nights are drawing in. All: *Soon be Christmas.*
1 day ago
Dave Faulkner

What Jesus Says About Facing Pressure, Matthew 10:24-39 (Ordinary 12 Trinity 3 Year A) - Matthew 10:24-39 A music magazine I read has a column every month where it asks three musicians various questions, including what was the first record they...
2 days ago
Mashable!

Microsoft to end support for Office 2021 this year - Microsoft is ending support for Office 2021 in October. Here's what that means, and what your options are.
3 days ago
Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 20 June 2026 - Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head The Four Horsemen of Growth – their names and their characteristics Mark Clavier Well-Tempered Post-Christian C...
3 days ago
Bartholomew's Notes on Religion

Old Hurst Zoo Incident: Police Confirm “White British” Suspect Due to Misinformation - From BBC News: A three-year-old boy critically injured in a zoo enclosure was attacked by a crocodile, the BBC understands. Cambridgeshire Police said a 30...
3 days ago
Kathryn Fleming

Sermon for Southwark Cathedral, 1st Sunday after Trinity, 7th June 2026 - How are you feeling this morning? Did you arrive Bright eyed and bushy tailed, counting your blessings and fired up to say thank you? Or have you had on...
6 days ago
Paul Walton

‘Christ died for us’ - Romans 5.1–8 Christianity is the only world religion that confesses a God who suffers. It is not all that popular an idea, even among Christians. We prefer...
6 days ago
Peter Mullins

Incidental pictures - An afternoon lecture at Stow Minster, part of the systematic work to rebuild its Friends and its promotion of and care for visitors. A strong sense o...
1 week ago
Simon Cutmore

Between The Buried And Me and the Myth of a Clean House - An Evensong sermon based on Luke 11:14-28 - Between The Buried And Me live in London 2026I’ve been spending quite a bit of time recently listening to the latest album by the progressive metal band...
1 week ago
Jeff Jarvis

To redefine progress - In an urgent and provocative essay in Die Zeit, journalist Georg Diez calls for a redefinition of progress in the time of AI. Taking lessons from the gen...
1 week ago
Andrew Plus

Starting at the edges - Nothing really winds me up like buzzwords. People throw around jargon like candy attempting to sound smart without saying very much. Then these words end...
2 weeks ago
Winchester Mothers Union

Members Reflection June 2026 - The Reflection for May 2026 can be found below and a .pdf can be downloaded
2 weeks ago
Bob MacDonald

Reading the encyclical of Pope Leo XIV - In the process of developing a musical response on my substack to the opening paragraphs of the recent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, I discovered a music...
3 weeks ago
Martin Jackson

View from the Vicarage: Life in Ordinary… - It’s always something of a relief for me when we reach the point in the Church’s Year which we call “Ordinary Time.” It’s those very many Sundays which ...
3 weeks ago
We Are Social

Report: Social feature superpowers – and how brands can use them - How can brands use social platform features to their full potential? Find out in our new report. The post Report: Social feature superpowers – and how br...
3 weeks ago
Bishop Nick Baines

No Words - This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. Good morning. Whether it will be, of course, will largely depend...
4 weeks ago
David Keen

Burnhams Hospital Pass - Already Keir Starmer's would be successors are showing comparable levels of decisiveness and competence. First Wes Streeting backtracks from an outright l...
5 weeks ago
Steve Tilley

In Appreciation of House of Games - House of Games recently has become our chosen programme to watch whilst eating our supper, Monday to Friday. We usually only watch one episode of 25 minute...
1 month ago
Limning the Psyche

A Trusted Resource in Mental Health, Now Updated - Just wanted to share that a textbook I wrote with two colleagues, Dr. Barrett McRay and Dr. Richard Butman, has been updated. The textbook, Modern Psychopa...
2 months ago
The Church Mouse

Who's who in the new look Gafcon setup - The realignment of the Anglican Communion has been realigned. In this two part series, Mouse sets out who is not in charge and what it all means. For thos...
2 months ago
Neil Bishop

Overcoming separation - *1 Peter 1.3-9, John 20.19-31* This year our eldest son will turn 40, but back in the day - when he was five or six perhaps - he was a master at delaying be...
2 months ago
Tobias Haller

Anna Livia, Night - And now, for something completely different! This is a link to a musical composition I wrote in 1970, based on the closing paragraphs of the first sect...
2 months ago
A Reader (to be) in Writing

Reflection for Good Friday – Treasures of Darkness - Today was difficult, moving and memorable. I grew up in the New Forest village of Minstead, and attended All Saints Church with my parents. My father still...
2 months ago
The Oatmeal

Finish the drawing. It is NOT a plane! - [image: Finish the drawing. It is NOT a plane!] I finished it. View on my website
3 months ago
Bosco Peters

Ash Wednesday and Lent 2026 - Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing that you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: create and make in us new and contrite hear...
4 months ago
Alastair McCollum

A New Year - Well, you know what they say about good intentions and the infernal paving scheme. I have decided that much as I encourage people to be kind to one anot...
5 months ago
Gary McMurray

Sermon: Romans 5: 12-21 Grace abounding - Let’s pray: Lord God almighty, speak to us now, through your word, help us to grasp the glories of your grace, freely given to us through our Lord Jesus...
5 months ago
Kester Brewin

🎄 Signed copies of my books, direct from me, with zero Bezos 🎄 - What better present for your nearest and dearest than a personal, signed copy of one of my books? Just added a shop part of my site, so you can buy direct ...
6 months ago
+Seraphim

EINSTEIN. A quote I find - . *“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling ...
6 months ago
Raspberry Rabbit

Jakob at the River Jabbok: "I will not let you go unless you bless me!" October 19th, 2025. All Saints' Anglican Church, Rome -
8 months ago
Mark Harris

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO: THE SPLIT IS HERE, SO WHAT? - Those naughty people in the Church of England have gone and done it: Through their very English process they have appointed a woman to be the Archbishop...
8 months ago
Penny Nash

What does it mean to carry your cross? - Text: https://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Pentecost/CProp18_RCL.html Years ago, my preschool aged son got really mad at me. I don’t remember what ...
9 months ago
Tim Davies

What role does artificial intelligence play in transparency and accountability? - [image: What role does artificial intelligence play in transparency and accountability?]
11 months ago
Huw Richardson

All Saints – who are Israel - As a country, the US is deeply formed (or deformed) by dispensationalist ideology. Counteracting this is the Church's teaching that the Church is Israel.
1 year ago
INHABITAT

How to Manage Subcontractors More Efficiently in Complex Builds - Managing subcontractors is often one of the trickiest parts of a build. As projects grow more complex, with overlapping tasks, tight timelines and increasi...
1 year ago
Bishop David Thomson

Salt and Light: Sermon at the Licensing of Andy Dodwell to be Vicar of Tupsley and HamptonBishop, 27th March 0925 - Romans 12.1-8 and Matthew 5.13-16 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. What a wonderful gathering this is. Welcome to yo...
1 year ago
Telling Secrets

Boxing with Transgender Shadows - Fighting against an enemy that doesn't exist. If memory serves, and it does less and less these days, it was 1978. Boston. We were in the basement of ...
1 year ago
BEYOND WORDS

December 25 - Peace on Earth This is a favorite cartoon of mine, which I look forward to seeing every year! I was so pleased to discover is was available for me to share...
1 year ago
Calvin & Mandy Park

Ethereum: Teknologi Blockchain yang Sedang Menjadi Sorotan 2025 - Ethereum adalah platform blockchain yang memungkinkan pengembangan aplikasi terdesentralisasi dan kontrak pintar. Teknologi blockchain ini menyediakan tran...
1 year ago
Purple Words on a Grey Background

Charity Begins Where? - You may have noticed that there has been a big flurry of activity online recently about *comments Vice President J D Vance made* about the prioritisation...
1 year ago
jonnybaker

the last post - from now on find me at jonny-baker.com and the blog page is jonny-baker.com/blog this is the last post on my typepad blog! i have used typepad for over 20 ...
1 year ago
Leo Babauta

A Month of Reflection - By Leo Babauta We’re entering the last month of the year, and for many of us, it’s a darker and quieter season. It’s the perfect time for reflection. I l...
1 year ago
Peter Ould

Not the Lockdown Mixes – 2000 - Continuing a series of mixes, taking dance tracks from a year and live mixing. Here’s 2000. Who Let the Dogs Out; Baha Men (Damitrex Remix)Music; Madonna (...
1 year ago
Debtonation

Panduan Penggunaan Pola Gacor Slot Saat Bermain Game Koi Gate - Game slot online Koi Gate menjadi daya tarik bagi para pecinta judi daring dengan tema oriental yang menarik dan peluang kemenangan yang menggiurkan. Bagi ...
1 year ago
Seven whole days

Doing the dishes so we can spread the Gospel - We don't spend enough time making the main thing the main thing at General Convention. But for 90 minutes early one morning, deputies and bishops gathered ...
1 year ago
Franciso Silva

Estado Mínimo : Lucro máximo! - O governador do estado do Paraná aprovou esta semana um projeto de privatização das escolas públicas. Este é mais um ataque dessa safra de políticos r...
2 years ago
Scatter Cushions

Teaser Tuesday - 28th May - Teaser tuesdays now hosted here. Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT T...
2 years ago
Bishop David Hamid

A new tradition - Colleen and I have established a new tradition in retirement: espresso martinis after Sunday mass. (Not in Lent of course).
2 years ago
The Vicar's Wife

Who’s Living in Your Vicarage? - Our Vicarage was beginning to empty out earlier this year. Our lovely Persian lodgers found a flat and moved out just before their baby was born. The Joker...
2 years ago
Kathy Escobar

waves of grief. - The last day I saw our son, Jared, in person was September 6th 2019, Friday of Labor Day weekend. He came home with some of his college friends for a wee...
2 years ago
Tim Chester

Meeting Christ in the Garden video -
2 years ago
Nick Page

Moving to micro.blog - All my blog posts – such as they are – are now at my website on micro.blog. I have come to the conclusion that I hate the bloated mess that WordPress has b...
2 years ago
Seth Godin

The paradox of insular language - We often develop slang or codewords to keep the others from understanding what we’re saying. Here’s an example (thanks BK) of the lengths that some are goi...
2 years ago
russell davies

August 2023 - Everybody everyone
2 years ago
Abbotsford

September Coffee Morning -
2 years ago
Andy Goodliff

British Baptist Theologians 24: Richard L. Kidd - DPhil 1987 (Oxford): Human fallenness : a comparative study in the theologies of Paul Tillich and Karl Rahner Tutor, Northern Baptist College, 1986-94 Prin...
2 years ago
Ruth Gledhill

How to increase Cycling Endurance - 10 Bike Training Tips - Cycling is a fantastic sport that not only keeps you fit but also allows you to explore the outdoors while enjoying the fresh air. If you're an avid savvy ...
3 years ago
A conservative blog for peace

Thanks, Father Sam. RIP. - Online Roman Catholic apologists still remind me of rude college kids I knew 35 years ago who, after coming to my Catholic Anglican parish to join me for E...
3 years ago
Nick Knisely

The Third Sunday in Lent – a reflection - I’m afraid I don’t have a video sermon to post, or even a written manuscript to share this week. I’m at the Spring House of Bishops meeting of the Episcopa...
3 years ago
Rachel Mann

General Synod Speech ‘LLF Debate’ February 2023 - (This was the original text of my Synod speech for the Living in Love and Debate (Same-Sex Blessings etc) at the February 2023 Groupof Sessions. I used ele...
3 years ago
Jonathan Clark

Old Year’s Resolution - I began this blog at the New Year of 2011, and as any of you who have followed it will know, it has waxed and waned in frequency over that time. I’ll leave...
3 years ago
Michael Povey

"Povey Prattle" is taking a rest. (Goodbye Micky) - Povey Prattle is taking a rset. I am doing this because when I transfer Povey Prattle stuff to Facebook (which is how most of you see it) a photo' of ...
4 years ago
Doug Chaplin

5 Tips to Choose a Third Party Logistics Provider - Assuming you will pick a decent operations transporter, realize that this will be a significant choice. The point of the vast majority is to search for a...
4 years ago
Ron Silliman (poetics)

- Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that unit of...
4 years ago
iBenedictines

Mary, Mother of God, 2022 - The solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, is the oldest Marian feast in the Western calendar. The fact that it now coincides with the Octave Day of Christmas...
4 years ago
Dirty Sexy Ministry

God, Grace, and Horses - To say the past almost two years have been trying is an understatement. We were living life, and then... It all stopped. During the pandemic, so much slo...
4 years ago
Mike Hayes

Learning from Yom Kippur - FIND forgiveness. There's an apt phrase. To find forgiveness, we must seek it out. We must be humble enough to admit our own broken humanity. To realize th...
4 years ago
Bishop David Chillingworth

Covid and Spiritual Awakening - I can’t think of any issue which has left me as uncertain in my mind as Covid. I sense a concern in the church that the disruption to our patterns of churc...
4 years ago
Russell Davies

Would You Need To Compose Your Own Essay For You? - Would you want to write your own essay? The truth is that a large part of us can do it in our sleep. Sure, we all know how to write an essay, but are you...
4 years ago
Doug Chaplin

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
5 years ago
Emma Major

A New Home for LLM Calling - [image: LLM Calling Logo starring Little Guy] It's been a long time coming but I've finally taken the plunge to bring everything that is me, from all ove...
5 years ago
Chris Kidd

Youth Justice - Over the last few days some big reports and research linked to youth justice have been published: A Rights-Based Analysis of Youth Justice in the UK: Unice...
5 years ago
Ekklesia

Call to halt UK police training programmes for repressive states - The College of Policing has provided training for at least 12 countries that are listed as 'human rights priority countries' by the Foreign and Commonwe...
5 years ago
Michael Spencer

Visit the Internet Monk Archives - 20 Years of Internet Monk For twenty years, Michael Spencer, Chaplain Mike and a number of other writers described and discussed the post-evangelical life,...
5 years ago
Lucy Mills

don’t let the world change how you walk - I was walking through the mud. Balancing on the more solid strip between two large furrows of sloshiness. A man was walking his dog and had paused to lo...
5 years ago
Kelvin Wright

Living the lies - In 1969, when I was 16 I left school and got a job as a labourer. My wages weren't high but to me they were a fortune and within a few months I bought m...
5 years ago
Anglican Church in Second Life

Remembrance Sunday - In the United Kingdom, the Sunday nearest to 11 November is commemorated as Remembrance Sunday. On that day we remember with gratitude those who have given...
5 years ago
Justin Lewis-Anthony

The Coming Religious Revival? - Those who read The Observer newspaper last weekend might have been reassured that COVID-19, at least in the United Kingdom, is preparing the ground for a r...
6 years ago
John Halton

Discipleship, Forgiveness and Gratuity - What does it mean to be a disciple? This is a question that James Alison addresses in his talk Discipleship and the Shape of Belonging. He begins (follow...
6 years ago
Wounded Bird

INTERIM - Yesterday, I'd written a few words about my state of mind and heart since my husband, Tom, died last year. This morning, I looked at my words from yesterda...
6 years ago
Father Jake Stops the World

The Adventure Begins - I have not checked my email or chanted a word for two weeks. I am on vacation, which will conclude with my official retirement on March 1. It feels very...
6 years ago
Rachel Marszalek

The horizontal and the vertical - As I was writing this sermon this week (Nov 2019), my husband and I began our traditional and seasonal debate about the atmosphere:- not extinction r...
6 years ago
Lesley's Blog

Jauhi Judi Supaya Anda Tidak Rugi - JAUHI JUDI SUPAYA ANDA TIDAK RUGI Oleh Ustadz Abu Isma’il Muslim Atsari Mencintai harta merupakan fitrah manusia. Oleh karena itu, sebagian orang berusah...
6 years ago
Peter Banks

Tactical Voting or Tactless Wasted Votes... - *Unite to Remain* is a collaborative *Tactical Voting* scheme for one or more candidates to stand down in a marginal seat held by a Tory in the last par...
6 years ago
The Friends of Jake

How do we find middle ground? - We are so deeply polarized as a people. How do we re-establish relationship with those who think it's okay to imprison children, who are afraid of Muslims...
6 years ago
Euan Semple

Moving my blog - Although http://euansemple.com will continue to be my business site I am moving my blog to its own new domain at http://euansemple.blog. Those of you who...
6 years ago
Steve Fouch

Ad Astra - Tying itself firmly to the coattails of recent, 'hard' science fiction films such as *Gravity, Interstellar, *and *Moon*, *Ad Astra* is very much an atte...
6 years ago
George Ambler

Why Get a Home Inspection When Buying a House - Since buying a home is one, if not the most important purchase you will ever make in your life, you should do everything possible to make sure it is in e...
6 years ago
Andrew Brown

Hornblower’s Brexit - I found the English of a piece I wrote for Dagens Nyheter last summer when Johnson resigned from Theresa May’s cabinet, in which I argued that the only way...
6 years ago
Ben Myers

Aquinas on emotion, pt. 1 (ST 2.22) - The account of the emotions (or passions) serves an important role in the anthropology of Thomas Aquinas' *Summa theologica*, being situated between the ...
6 years ago
David Hayward

When Your Kids Deconstruct - Fear-based parenting is popular. Parents love their children so much that they fear anything negative happening to them. They justifiably want to protect t...
6 years ago
Rev'd Claire

#AnecdotalEvidence by #WendyCope #notgb19 - It may be that you don’t like poetry. You might not want your heartstrings tugged by dancing language which renders ordinary extraordinary. You might not w...
6 years ago
Alan Perry

Read the Memo: The Living Church and the Chancellor's memo on marriage - This week the Living Church published an article disagreeing with the Chancellor of General Synod regarding Canon XXI. The Chancellor produced a memorandu...
6 years ago
Jared Cramer

Aurora’s Hopvine Brewing Co.: Come by and have a beer with your friends - The buttermilk fried chicken and waffles at Hopvine Brewing Co. in Aurora pairs a Belgian waffle, jalapeno slaw and ginger-maple syrup. Aurora Amber is t...
6 years ago
Prodigal Kiwi(s) Blog

Cynthia Bourgeault: Centering Prayer - The best book I’ve read on centering prayer Anglican Priest Cynthia Bourgeault’s 2004 Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening. The best DVD introduction is Th...
6 years ago
David Meldrum

#firstimefriday Bill Murray and Embracing The Transcendence Of The Ordinary - In the dark, strange days after 9/11, when the skies over London were still eerily empty of the planes that would on a normal day noisily criss-cross their...
7 years ago
Ruth Innes

Lent Thoughts -Hospitality - Today’s Lent reading, squeezed in between much Holy Week preparation, was a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye from 19 Varieties of Gazelle. Red Brocade The Arabs us...
7 years ago
River Thames Beach Party

Fourth Sunday after Epiphany - Last Sunday our Morning Lessons, as found in the 1943 Lectionary, were Isa. 61.1-3 cf. Luke 4:16-32. Normally, I try to restrain articles about Holy Days o...
7 years ago
Diego Brinkley Galanzino

Homily for the Third Sunday Advent (C) - "Chaire" - Zephaniah 3:14-18 Philippians 4:4-7 *‘Shout for joy, daughter of Zion.’* (Zephaniah 3:14) "Annunciation" - John Collier One of the most common prayers is ...
7 years ago
The Media Blog

The Media Blog is having a well-earned break... - Thanks for visiting. The Media Blog is currently having a break but you can still stay in touch over on Twitter - just be sure to follow @TheMediaTweets fo...
7 years ago
Bishop Paul Butler

Christians and the Poor - This is the paper I contributed as part of the panel on Christians and the Poor at Sant Egidio International Meeting “Bridges of Peace. Religions and Cultu...
7 years ago
Marcus Honeysett

11 aspects of being made in the image of God - Here are 11 things the early chapters of the Bible say about being made in the image of God. they all depend on God being prior, above and qualitatively ...
7 years ago
Phil's Treehouse

ESL #3: Political - Another of the books I'm reading on my ESL is Justin Welby's Reimagining Britain. A couple of days ago the Archbishop fronted the publication of a report b...
7 years ago
Ann Kristin Haldors Fontaine

Memorial Information - We are working on consolidating Ann's blogs and memorial information at one site. The most current information will be at: http://seashellseller.org from t...
8 years ago
Revd Martine Osborne

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.. - Our twenty year old Youth Minister is studying for a degree in Theology and Youth Ministry and she was talking to me the other day about a lecture she’d...
8 years ago
Richard Hall

Hymn of the day - Praise the Lord who reigns above And keeps His court below; Praise the holy God of love And all His greatness show; Praise Him for His noble deeds; Praise ...
8 years ago
Stephen Fry

Something rather mischievous - A message from Stephen Fry The post Something rather mischievous appeared first on Official site of Stephen Fry.
8 years ago
John Hobbins

Vigil: The Intertexts of a Poem by Jennifer Agee (Part 4) - “Vigil” The evening and the morning are the first day. After darkness and the silence of God in the death of Jesus Christ, a new day breaks and the shadows...
8 years ago
Wes Roberts

.......Joy is still a reality and possibility....... - _____________Joy_____________ is the meeting place of deep intentionality and self forgetting, the bodily alchemy of what lies inside us in...
8 years ago
Joe Rawls

The Labyrinth As Spiritual Journey - In recent years walking the labyrinth has become a significant spiritual practice for many people, both Christian and non-Christian. In pre-Christian E...
8 years ago
Kathryn Corrick

Follow the money: investigative journalism using data - In 2015, I was asked to write a chapter for what became the book Data Journalism: inside the global future (Abramis October 2015) by Damian Radcliffe. It’s...
8 years ago
Paul Roberts

Mission With: something out of the ordinary (review) - When I arrived at Manchester University in 1978, one of the first people I met was a tall, gently-spoken Northern Irishman called Paul Keeble. He had alrea...
8 years ago
Ben Goldacre

How do the world’s biggest drug companies compare, in their transparency commitments? - Here’s a paper, and associated website, that we launch today: we have assessed, and then ranked, all the biggest drug companies in the world, to compare th...
8 years ago
Sally Coleman

only love... - how did you hold your nerve; knowing all would betray or desert you knowing the pain that lay ahead, how did you hold your nerve? + how did you wash their ...
9 years ago
Bishops of Bristol & Swindon

Religious extremism and the shadow it casts - Religious extremism and the shadow it casts In our culture it has become axiomatic to assert that religion has been the cause of wars throughout the ages. ...
9 years ago
Mark Vernon

The Marriage of Souls - *Why we now need a renewed conjugal theology* Equality is politically effective. Its message is immediate and, in a mature democracy, one that most under...
9 years ago
Kendall Harmon

(Economist) The amazing story of “Les Misérables”, a book that changed the world - The story of “Les Misérables”, a book that has won hearts and changed minds across the globe https://t.co/izQBmwsYtd — The Economist (@TheEconomist) Febru...
9 years ago
Ian McDonald

Gold Hill Holiday - I thoroughly enjoyed my week of being the resident minister and Speaker on a Gold Hill Holiday in Switzerland. It was a great adventure in community, faith...
9 years ago
Garr Reynolds (Design)

Pixar Studios *Still* Offers Free Storytelling Lessons Online - In cooperation with the Khan Academy, Pixar and Disney have been offering Pixar in a Box, an on-going series of behind-the-scenes lessons taught by Pixar's...
9 years ago
Transition Culture

Transition Ingredients Cards: in English, Italian and Chinese! - Our great Transition resource, the Transition Ingredients Cards, are now available in three languages. The post Transition Ingredients Cards: in English, I...
9 years ago
Brian McLaren

Preaching in Challenging Times - My friend Bryan Berghoef models wise and courageous preaching in these difficult times ... Check out last Sunday's sermon here, in Holland, MI.
9 years ago
Dave Perry

urged to engage and compelled to welcome - [image: Hull city of culture video installation at the Deep] As City of Culture 2017 Hull is proud of its cosmopolitan heritage. In the first week of Ja...
9 years ago
Lay Anglicana (Laura Sykes)

O Rex Gentium: the Sixth Advent Antiphon – 22 December - Latin: O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti. English: O King of...
9 years ago
David Hodgson

Daily reflections for Advent Day 5: 1st December - This Advent daily reflection for 1st December is published a day late because yesterday I spent 9 hours on the road travelling to Yorkshire and back to mee...
9 years ago
The Blogging Parson

Stanley Keith Game - *Glory be to God on High. * These were the words that our dear friend and brother Keith sang each week to introduce the Gloria. As he sang them, you go...
9 years ago
Simon Taylor

Cages and Trees -
9 years ago
Fr Tony Clavier

CATHOLIC OR PROTESTANT? - Training a New Vestry It’s not at all clear when the question arose: Is Anglicanism Catholic or Protestant? I suspect that for the first 250 years of our...
9 years ago
J R Woodward

The Places Where I Blog Now - If you want to read some of my most recent blog entries, you will find my writing at the websites below. Be sure to check these sites out, and look at th...
9 years ago
Megaan Austin

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 ...
9 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 ...
9 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 ...
10 years ago
Church Social Media

#ChSocM chat: Continuing #eform16 inquiries & conversations about social media! - *The Topic: We’re chatting about topics that came to mind while viewing tweets from #eform16.* *This week's (06/07/16) chat moderated by Meredith Gould (@...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
Dave Perry

transfiguration: empowered by the big picture - [image: Transfiguration of everyday life] The small inner-city mission church where this artwork was created is a sanctuary for those life leaves behind, f...
10 years ago
Phil Simpson

SimpsonSaga2015 - Here is our latest ‪#‎SimpsonSaga‬ 2015 ..... You can download the the rest from dropbox here As usual it is written between Western Christmas (25...
10 years ago
Practising the Presence of God

Ordination Sermon - It was a privilege to preach at Christ Church, Cathedral Oxford for the Diocesan Ordinations. I used the poems of R S Thomas as part of the retreat, along...
10 years ago
Fr Ross Northing

Grommet Curtain Trends 2015 - Home decor is an essential component in regards to improve your home's appearance. Everybody wants to create their house appear as unique as you possibly ...
10 years ago
Deep Thought

For those of you who didn't make it to the hustings - Sunday’s Gospel warned us all against the error of competition amongst disciples. I’m sure my fellow candidates will agree that this is not such a compet...
10 years ago
Malcolm French

His Name Was Aylan - Today's sermon - I don't usually write sermons. I wrote this one. You can listen to the recording here. Here is the text. Check against delivery. Sermon Notes: His Name ...
10 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 ...
10 years ago
MrCatOLick

New - Hiya. any replies? 🙂
10 years ago
Love Africa

Resonate's Final Blog - So here it is… the last Resonate Uganda Blog post. This trip has been one of the most life-changing, incredible and inspiring experiences of all of our l...
10 years ago
Pete Phillips

A Digital Prayer Companion with some great academic reflection (2010) - Goldie - designing and implementing a device for prayer for an enclosed order of nuns. Many thanks to Claire Bailey-Ross who brought my attention to this p...
10 years ago
Phil Wood

Heaven in our embraces - I have heard That we are held, In the palm of God's hand; Embraced in love. I have found That we hold God in the palm of a hand; heaven in our embraces.
10 years ago
Neil Addison

US Supreme Court - Same Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom - V Continuing my analysis of the US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges I am going to look at how the decison and the dissenting judg...
10 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...
11 years ago
Robin Usher

Testing - Trying out a new app!
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 years ago
spiritually directed...

Joyeux Noel - *Wishing everyone a Joyeux Noel * *from the Wisemen and their Landlady!*
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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 ...
11 years ago
A Blogspotting Anglican Episcopalian

The Valencia Dawkins Challenge: No Consensus on Consensus - Shroud of Turin: Should You Believe It is Real? Giulio Fanti (pictured) writes: Dear Dan. . . . You have my permission to inform whoever you want of my pos...
11 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...
11 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...
11 years ago
kingdom grace

The “Y” in the Road - “The notion of a divinely ordained place of punishment for the wicked after death is deeply embedded in the Christian imagination. How should we think and ...
12 years ago
Get Out of Jail Free

Appealing Cartoon. :) -
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 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 ...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 years ago
Start The Week

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12 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...
12 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...
12 years ago
Christine Sine

Deadheading is for the Birds - I don’t usually upload two posts in a day but this is an exception – tomorrow’s post is being uploaded early because tomorrow my blog is moving and I will ...
12 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. ...
12 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 reflect...
13 years ago
Randa Clay Design

Promote Your Online Business With Creative Printed Materials - I know I’m not alone when I say that face-to-face networking isn’t my favorite thing to do. The word ‘networking’ makes my skin crawl a little. But it’s im...
13 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...
13 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...
13 years ago
Dan Inman

deddingtoncurate -
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
13 years ago
Geoff Colmer

Some Highlights from 2012 - I’m conscious that my blogging is so occasional as to be almost non-existent. I regret this as, regardless of whether anyone engaged with what I wrote, I...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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
13 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...
13 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” ...
13 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...
13 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...
13 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...
14 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 ...
14 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...
14 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! Fe...
14 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 ...
14 years ago
Claire Pedrick

- We have moved! You will now find our blog in the 3D Website www.3dcoaching.com See you there!
14 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...
14 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...
14 years ago
ChurchyDesign

This is just a test - Notification Test
15 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
15 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...
15 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...
15 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...
15 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...
15 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 &...
15 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...
15 years ago
Tim's Old Blog

New Blog - For those who are interested, my blog has moved to http://blog.timnorwood.name/
15 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...
15 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 ...
15 years ago
Daniel Owen

The Blacksmith - [image: Blacksmith] Not since I had seen a horse being fitted with new 'shoes' as a boy had I seen a Blacksmith at work. The opportunity came unexpectedl...
15 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...
15 years ago
New Economics Foundation

Danger of ghettoisation of the poor as government axes housing benefit -
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15 years ago
The Third Province

How did it get to be so Boring!?! - Where has the radical freshness of christianity gone? How come the symbol of a martyr who was tortured so much he was resucitated three times before, liter...
16 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, ...
16 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...
16 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.
16 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 ...
16 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...
16 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 ...
16 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...
16 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...
16 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...
16 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 ...
17 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...
17 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...
17 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...
17 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...
17 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...
18 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, ...
19 years ago
Dan Porter

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