… but no sardines from me.
Author Archives: Elizaphanian
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This is such a beautiful island and it gives me so much peace.
Be still, my soul: the Lord is on thy side.
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain.
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In every change, He faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul: thy best, thy heavenly Friend
Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
Ministry of Deliverance
I gave a talk on the pastoral side of this ministry to our Year 3 curates yesterday – text is on my other blog.
I have a new favourite hymn
(to go with a large collection of favourite hymns)
We had it as our post-communion hymn yesterday, and it worked really well.
New blog
I’ve set up a new blog, to host talks and sermons. There will always be a link to them from this blog, but the new one will be where I’ll put the talks themselves. It’s called, rather imaginatively, ‘Elizaphanian: Talks and Sermons’ and can be found here.
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Why I like reading IO9:
The Phantom menace editor takes on Avatar
It’s time to get serious about colonising space
A Lost timeline
Imagining the fate of data after the apocalypse
Also, via Banksy:
How to make a living playing music (most of which easily translates from ‘music’ to ‘writing’)
and
Dear Rock Stars… which made me think of U2 as the last of the dinosaurs. Not a comfortable thought for a fan.
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On being an Anglo-Catholic: “All in all, the Anglo-Catholic tradition is that which nourishes me, and has since I first converted… It is not the only valid tradition within the Episcopal Church, or within the Christian world, or even within the entire spiritual conglomeration of paths, but it is one valid tradition. And I am grateful for it.”
Time to go down the pub
Very fitting. (h/t Doug)
Women in the Episcopate (Learning Supper talk)
This is a recording of my talk to the Learning Supper last week on Women Bishops (I accept that’s probably not grammatically correct, but it is conventional). The audio quality is a bit crackly – that’s because I had to drastically compress the file (one hour long) in order to make it uploadable to gabcast.
I wouldn’t have thought that there is anything new here for people who are familiar with the debate.
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Captain America had a point
John Hobbins links to two interesting articles here and here.
One of the things I enjoy reading in my spare time is comics – occasionally called ‘graphic novels’ at the higher reaches of the form, but, basically, comics, involving people who have large muscles and poor taste in clothing. One of the most interesting ones I’ve read recently has been the ‘Civil War’ sequence put out by Marvel. I won’t bore you with explaining why it is that Captain America and Iron Man are slugging it out (though it IS extremely interesting social commentary) I just want to point out that there comes a point when Captain America surrenders – not because he has changed his mind about the justice of his cause, but because too many innocent bystanders are suffering because of the struggle.
The man has a point.