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Resisting the Inevitable?

November 22, 2012 7:17 pm / Leave a Comment / revdmac

I clearly remember sitting in my parents’ front room cheering on the vote in favour of women’s  ordination to the priesthood. At the time I was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland, and women had been accepted as clergy in that denomination for a couple of decades before this momentous vote in the … Read More →

Posted in: Christianity, News / Tagged: assumptions, authority, beliefs, experience, faith, history, power, priesthood, tradition, worship

“I give you Mr and Mrs Jesus Ben Joseph!”

September 29, 2012 7:19 am / Leave a Comment / revdmac

If you have any form of news media that you regularly watch or read it has been impossible to miss the furore over Harvard scholar, Karen King, publishing and discussing the small piece of codex parchment now generally being called The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife. As with all things in the non-specialist media, the claims … Read More →

Posted in: Christianity, Musings, News / Tagged: authenticity, books, history, texts, tradition, truth

Church Authentic?

August 14, 2012 3:30 pm / 2 Comments / UbiquitousRat

He opened the letter, somewhat gingerly, and unfolded the pristine paper. Gazing at the hand-written text, so unusual and almost unfamiliar in the digital age, he knew already that this would be a letter from a concerned Christian.  The words were well meant, as ever they were from the person in question, but they did … Read More →

Posted in: Christianity, Experiences / Tagged: authenticity, experience, faith, journey, story, worship

Why Won’t You Sing Jerusalem?

July 23, 2012 3:10 pm / 2 Comments / revdmac

It had been an organised trip for priests still completing their initial years of training, or in their first, post-training parish. A group of us were sitting on the veranda of the retreat complex in which we were staying, and the topic turned to hymns we didn’t like (for whatever reasons, we didn’t like these … Read More →

Posted in: Christianity, Experiences, Musings / Tagged: authenticity, dogma, history, power, secularism, tradition, worship

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