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Drafting this for the E-Newsleter for Trinity Church Members and Clergy of Trinity Church went to the Diocesan Convention on Friday and Saturday (24 and 25 October). Convention is the annual business meeting of the diocese and, since the Episcopal Church is a democratically-governed organisation, all parishes have a say in the process. Bishop Garrison’s [...]

s the current series winds down (I need only to add a conclusion) I’ve decided to add the previous series into it. The Invitation to communion (“With Faith and Love Draw Near!”) as well as the most recent post on Bible Reading as Tarot Reading, seems to me to be a full set with this [...]

Continuing our series on “The Big Three”, Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. The Menu for the entire series is there in the sidebar. The first posts went “inward” on this Journey, from Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity. Now we go the other way – outward… When Jesus said that we are to Love God and our [...]

HE HOLY Trinity may be seen as God who is Transcendent, God who dwells with us, and God who dwells in us. The Bible refers to God, “in whom we live and move and have our Being”. That is the Father. The prayer that opens every service in the Eastern Rite refers to God as [...]

RINITY is the third of the “Big Three” doctrines without which I can’t make sense of Christianity. It is the third leg of my own personal xmin stool. It is also the third in doctrinal Chronology. After Eucharist (from the very beginning) through an understanding of Jesus as God, came the understanding of God as [...]

Continuing with the series linked in the sidebar there, under the peace cross. Here is part two on Incarnation. LOT OF Christians get this one wrong. Some, today, even deny it outright. Here’s the most important, radical, revolutionary thing about Christianity: God has a navel. I don’t know if it was an “inney” or an [...]

ITH THE Last post in this series we began a look at Eucharist. I’d like to broaden this out now, seeing Eucharist in places we might normally see it. Before there was the idea of “Mass” – of a ritual eating divided out from the community meal – there was the reality of the Agape [...]

HEN I Sat down to sketch out this series, I thought to do it in the order presented: Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. It made sense thinking from the top down. But as I considered this series I realised it was important to actually do it in historical order: the Eucharist came first in the life [...]

ALKING INTO Ingles last Sunday with Fr Brent, we were discussing the way that some people (the present author included) worry that loosening the grip on one part of traditional Christianity – eg sex – can lead to a loosening of the grip on other parts. I was adamant about that for a while in [...]

I found this over on the older pages from a year+ ago, and thought it geeky: Internet : Father :: Google : Son :: Wikipaedia : Holy Spirit I think, a year later, I’d reverse the last two: the Wiki is the incarnation of the Internet, the embodiment of net truth, as it were. It [...]