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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
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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,
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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
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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
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By Ross Hebb
A SIGNIFICANT PORTION of our society has a fascination with science fiction – and I confess I share this interest. As a young person, I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek series – as my children would say –waaay back in the sixties. More recently, the Star Gate series in its rerun re-incarnation has been an almost daily viewing fix. By way of a meditation on Advent, I want to do something a little different: I want us to engage in a piece of fiction,
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THE OCCUPY WALL STREET movement has people around the world thinking about one sort of economy: the framework within which we exchange money
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THE INCARNATION is a kind of marriage, with an exchange – an economy – that parallels the exchange of vows at a wedding, and the exchange of old lives for new
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By David Curry
IT IS A PRESSING contemporary question. How do we read? There has been a virtual explosion of books about the marvel and the miracle of reading and about what reading means in the digital age. There is, in fact, a considerable climate of anxiety about books and reading. Does this new age mean the end of books? Does it mean the end of reading, itself? In the technological changes of the digital world,
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