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		<title>Lesslie Newbigin &#8211; Bishop of Hope</title>
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2009 is the Centenary of Lesslie Newbigin&#8217;s birth. Churches Together in Britain &#38; Ireland decided to celebrate this with a Conference held at Queen&#8217;s College, Birmingham.
This post is&#8230;. 
part brief background  on Newbigin;
part a quick glance at some of his theology;
part a &#8216;back of an envelope&#8217; report on the conference;
and part a personal reflection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaps of Christ</title>
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The &#8216;Leaps of Christ&#8217; was part of the theme taken by Bishop John Hind at the Chichester Diocesan Synod recently. I had heard of this Old English poem, but on being re-introduced to it, it led me to explore some of the wonderful Advent and Christmas within it.
The section on the Leaps of Christ comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>80-F</title>
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&#8216;After The Fire&#8217;, aka ATF or 80-F, were THE megastars of the 70s/80s British Christian music scene. Though I&#8217;m not sure they liked the idea of being called that &#8211; though not afraid of their Christian influence, they wanted to be known as musicians, not just Christian musicians. 
I took a couple of photos at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priests&#8217; Blessing</title>
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Our local clergy chapter were meeting this week, and I was &#8216;hosting&#8217;. Usually, part of hosting involves preparing some prayers and worship. As we were also &#8216;Remembering&#8216; St Martin of Tours, I had a few things up my sleeve, including a fine shell remembering the pilgrims that stopped at St Martin&#8217;s shrine in Tours on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arundel Tomb</title>
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Chichester Cathedral is the &#8216;mother church&#8217; of the diocese, and as a Sussex priest, I find myself there from time to time. I love wandering through the cathedral when I get a chance. It has so many superb features about it; but one of my favourites is &#8216;The Arundel Tomb&#8217;.
It is a fourteenth century table [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rome says &#8220;Welcome&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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Cross-posted from my entry on the General Synod blog on The Vatican offer of special Anglican ordinariates &#8211; what in Anglican terms may be called something similar to a Third Province, or the Church of Aotearoa/New Zealand&#8217;s &#8216;tikangas&#8216;.
Well, there was a surprise! Yesterday&#8217;s unexpected hurriedly put together press conference in London, responding to the Vatican&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace, in our time?</title>
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The initial flurry of comments, as the 44th US President, Barack Obama, is nominated for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, seem to be mainly an incredulous &#8220;really? so soon?&#8221; Well that&#8217;s pretty good after 9 months in office.
However, I want to approach this less cynically than some. It maybe that &#8216;premature&#8217; is one word that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acutting.co.uk/politics/peace-in-our-time-2</link>
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		<title>Amazing Persistence, Liberating Grace</title>
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Watching the William Wilberforce/John Newton film Amazing Grace at a home group around the day the church remembers William Wilberforce encouraged the vicar Michael Berry to use some of the themes in the Sunday sermon at church at St Heliers on Sunday.
It prompted me to look back at some ‘John Newton’ photos I took a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acutting.co.uk/people/amazing-persistence-liberating-grace</link>
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		<title>3 months down&#8230;</title>
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Sorry to have missed out on the third tranch of OneAndOther ballot selections, even though I was glad not to have had to give up a place had I been selected for August. Preferrring to be in NZ!
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		<title>One small step&#8230;</title>
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In 1969 I had been at a boarding school in South India for some 6 months. A rather terrifying Australian dorm matron, Audrey Bateman, did have a very helpful habit. If there was anything significant on the BBC World Service, she made all of us in Middle Dorm sit and listen to the large wireless [...]]]></description>
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