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Friday, December 30, 2011 at 01:18PM 
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By Stephen Andrews
ONE CHRISTMAS I bought some bath soap for my wife. I know it sounds like a pretty easy task to manage. Most any department store sells bath soap. All I had to do was find one that smelled nice and lay out the cash. But the matter turned out to be more complicated than I expected, because on my way to the department store
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 01:08PM 
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By Tim Perry
WHAT OUGHT WE to do with Mary? Various factions within our Anglican Communion, of course, are quite clear on this question. Some wish to retain only the relative simplicity of the ancient church’s confession of Mary as theotokos – often translated in the West as Mother of God.* Others wish to go further,
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 12:53PM 
Literally ‘holy day,’ a day set apart from labour for God. So the ‘Sabbath’ appointed by the Ten Commandments is a day set apart that a people who were slaves
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 12:50PM 
When St Augustine of Canterbury was beginning his mission in southern England, he wrote letters to Pope Gregory the Great. Among them is one asking what to do about the old temples where the people still gathered. St Gregory well expresses
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 12:44PM WELL I DON’T KNOW if you have been keeping score, but it would seem that the courts have pretty consistently sided with the provincial churches in the property disputes that have been brought before them. Although we might have hoped and prayed otherwise, perhaps it should not surprise us that a secular judiciary has made its judgment on formal matters of canon law which it understands, rather than on the substantial matters of doctrine which are beyond its grasp. There are of course still some cases