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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 67,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that…
Inevitable question: What did you do for Christmas “I was working” Lots of people worked over Christmas To manage the floods, restore rail network In hospitals and nursing homes To keep the retail monster churning To keep this world safe in far-off places – our Forces and in local places of tension – our Police…
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/iLwXlYf0nrU/the-long-slow-death-of-the-lan.html This is US data, reporting that 34% of Americans now don’t have a landline. When I arrived at Roborough, people looked askance when I said I wasn’t going to have a landline and if they wanted me, my mobile was the solution. I have to say it works. There may occasionally be delays in…
Peter Ould inhabits a very different part of the Church of England, and we differ hugely on issues of sexuality, gender and the process by which Christ’s salvation works, but we both proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord and have a great mutual respect for each other. He is a true brother in Christ as…
Although I have a reputation as an early adopter, and a willingness to use any technology to support the liturgy and witness of the Church, I have been careful in my use of electronics as a paper substitute for the priest. I have over time preached from a Kindle device and nowadays almost exclusively say…
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First Christmas in a new parish: no pressure then. After seven years getting STE to the place where I wanted it to be, the experience of working in a new setting was bound to be a challenge, particularly when one follows an Incumbent of more than 20 years. However, I have nothing but fulsome praise…
Today, the twenty-fifth day of December, unknown ages from the time when God created the heavens and the earth and then formed man and women in his own image. Several thousand years after the flood, when God made the rainbow shine forth as a sign of the covenant. Twenty-one centuries from the time of Abraham and…
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If you want, the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy, and say, “I need shelter for the night, please take me inside your heart, my time is so close.” Then, under the roof of your soul you will witness the sublime intimacy, the divine, the Christ taking birth forever, as…
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A series of reflections recorded for the “Goodness Gracious Me?” Mission Conference, 13-16th December 2012, Plymouth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vu4c7GW0QU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XvwRdkSZFI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66s-iSrfAz0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjp_QQpgzH0
A really good number of people turnout out to make the Christingle Kits for Christmas Eve today. Thank you to everyone who came to help. Many hands really did make light work. Kits you say? Oh yes – all the children are given a bag containing the relevant elements for them to make along with…
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