1. Compline: the little bird

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    March 27, 2016 by Worship, Community, Formation

    ‘Into your hands O Lord, I commit my spirit. Do you know Compline?   I imagine most reading this do.  I …
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  2. Palm Sunday

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    March 20, 2016 by Worship, Community, Formation

    I tend not to post my occasional sermons here; but Palm Sunday makes things different; and this one relates to …
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  3. How not to talk about liturgy.

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    March 11, 2016 by Worship, Community, Formation

    How not to talk about liturgy…. There was a particluarly knobby outbreak on a priest’s Facebook page recently, about how …
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  4. Thin trust #2

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    September 6, 2015 by Worship, Community, Formation

    In my previous post on Dave Andrews’ visit to the neighbourhood, I mentioned his list of five ‘Kairos Moments’: the …
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  5. Dave Andrews comes to town.

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    September 5, 2015 by Worship, Community, Formation

    I was not expecting to like Dave Andrews.   I could tell even without doing any actual research that he was …
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  6. Playing at Deacons

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    August 27, 2015 by Worship, Community, Formation

    Standing at the altar in our church on a Sunday morning, at the president’s right hand, is the deacon. Occasionally …
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  7. How can we sing our discipleship?

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    August 2, 2015 by Worship, Community, Formation

    Christians sing many things in worship.   Sometimes we sing our faith.  Sometimes we sing our hope.  Sometimes we sing our …
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  8. Where will heaven come from?

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    June 16, 2015 by Worship, Community, Formation

    I don’t know what heaven would be like, any more than anyone else does.   But I do understand that it …
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  9. Nothing is Important

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    June 6, 2015 by Worship, Community, Formation

    People do like to watch the church make a fool of itself. Sometimes the church seems only too ready to …
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  10. Hot Cross Buns and the liturgical should-nots

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    March 30, 2015 by Worship, Community, Formation

    Assuming you’re reading the right blog, you’ll have met more than one liturgical should-not in your life.    They’re the kind …
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