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Boulders in Rivers
Fri, 24/11/2006 - 11:26 — JamesThanks to Graham Wintle for this one: friend, my vicar 10 years ago, now at St Stephen’s Willoughby in Sydney
… read more »A stone can affect a river in one of two ways. It can cause the waters to ripple – in slight, but intriguing ways. Or it can be a large boulder that diverts the entire course of the river.
Smart Tags in Word
Wed, 22/11/2006 - 11:44 — JamesYou have to love Microsoft Word’s “smart tags” feature.
Has liberalism vanished?
Fri, 17/11/2006 - 22:46 — James... or has it merely attempted to eclipse everything else.
Once upon a time, long long ago, the Church of England spoke of a number of “churchmanships” among its ranks. The differences are appropriately called differences of churchmanship because that is what they are – a difference in our doctrine of the church. Classically there were 3: Evangelical, Anglo-Catholic and Liberal. (Footnote: The charismatic renewal of the 1970s gave rise to the question of whether “Charismatic” is a fourth churchmanship; history would suggest that the charismatic renewal movement has permeated all 3 wings of the church, so is more subtle than that – but that is a different issue).
Since then, two things have changed.
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