Notes on an essential sacrament, without which the church cannot fully be embodied in digital space. Please forgive incompleteness of this text and the lack of references but I am recording this here as a note for ruther study and reflection, as a result of attending a symposium on Sacraments in a Virtual World at…
(This paper is no longer available elsewhere on the web, although its critiques are; so as Prof Fiddes gave us a copy of it, I have scanned it here for the sake of completeness) From The Virtual Body of Christ? Sacrament and Liturgy in Digital Spaces - a symposium organised by the CODEC research centre for…
All Netflix Category Codes Here’s the complete list of all the codes, so you can search to your heart’s content! http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/### Categories broken out for children based upon age: Movies for ages 0 to 2: 6796 Movies for ages 2 to 4: 6218 Movies for ages 5 to 7: 5455 Movies for ages 8 to 10: 561…
The Sunday after Easter is known as 'Low Sunday' throughout the Church, and that doesn't just refer to the mood of the Clergy. Traditionally, churches would listen to David Bowie's eleventh album on this day, though since the arrival of Christian worship songs, that tradition has fallen into disuse.
Plymouth is currently about to have a city-wide Bishops Missionary Order (BMO) imposed without proper consultation because although there has been letters of consultation written in a spirit of consultation, the decision has clearly been already made and these unashamed Church Plants are coming, with a remit to create more plants. Both the HTB plant…
by Sir John Betjeman When things go wrong it's rather tame To find we are ourselves to blame, It gets the trouble over quicker To go and blame things on the Vicar. The Vicar, after all, is paid To keep us bright and undismayed. The Vicar is more virtuous too Than lay folks such as…
In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen “This is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” John the Baptist uses the metaphor of the Lamb of God. It is an odd metaphor when one considers the traditional view of the Messiah of…
While a day like Christmas is fixed in our minds and on the calendars on December 25th, many of the important feasts of the Church year move, based upon the date that Easter is set. Easter changes each year moving to the Sunday after the "Paschal Full Moon," and can fall between March 22 and…
