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Recent content by Bingley

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    Ascension Day

    We just had an evening prayer service with a small congregation -- about 20 people -- with lots of reading and people giving their thoughts inspired by the readings.
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    A Merry and Blessed Christmas

    I am leaving today to spend Christmas and New Year with my family in the UK. I won't have much time for the internet while I'm away, so I'll wish everyone a merry and blessed Christmas and all the best for the New Year.:wave: If I have inadvertently hurt anyone's feelings in my time here on...
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    C.S. Lewis, was a Theologian, even if he did not consider himself one.

    I'm not saying it was. All I'm saying is that it's a possibility not covered by Lewis's famous trilemma.
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    C.S. Lewis, was a Theologian, even if he did not consider himself one.

    Why not? Presumably you would accept he said what he's recorded as saying in the Gospels in the Bible, but not everything he's recorded as saying in the apocryphal gospels. Lots of people have things ascribed to them that they never in fact said.
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    Inclusive Language

    Starstreak, could you give us some specific examples where feminine forms are used to refer to God, and the reference to Christ as the Bride and the Church as the Groom?
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    C.S. Lewis, was a Theologian, even if he did not consider himself one.

    I love C. S. Lewis -- I've just finished re-reading "The Chronicles of Narnia". But the famous quotation from "Mere Christianity" does leave out another possibility: that Jesus was mis-reported.
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    Update on myself

    Altogether now: We want the frescoes, we want the frescoes, we want the frescoes :clap: :clap:
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    Rate the last Sci-Fi book you read

    I was unwell last week and took to my bed. I'll spare you the sordid details, but while incapacitated I did read Larry Niven's "Ringworld". It's one of those books that leave you wanting more. I want to know more about Pierson's Puppeteers, and the Outsiders, and the results of breeding humans...
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    Typically Anglican...

    A modern recipe: http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/r_0000001235.asp
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    By request: the Christmas Program which does not mention God, Jesus, or Mary

    I find myself totally bewildered. Was it the particular psalm that was objected to or psalms in general? If neither God nor Christ gets a mention at Christmas, are they mentioned much at other times of the year? Why do the congregation bother going? Wouldn't they much rather have a nice lie-in...
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    Alexander

    I think it's a not so subtle hint: Britain = imperialist power = baddy America = rebel against the empire = goody
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    Am I Crazy?

    Perhaps part of the reason is that most people in the Western world these days have no idea what a Master/Servant relationship is like. How do you know how to be a servant in a world where servants for the most part do not exist?
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    Adult Christian formation type education

    There is a course called Disciple: Becoming Disciples through Bible Study, which our church ran quite successfully in 2002-2003. It's quite demanding as it takes you through the whole Bible in 30-odd weekly sessions. I must admit I would have liked to take things a bit more slowly. Though, come...
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    I can't take "praise" music

    Well, if praise songs are what I think they are we have both. I can't really read music (or sing if it comes to that) but we do have the music in the hymnal so I can at least make a stab at it if it's a hymn I don't know;) . And I like the way the hymnal says who wrote the hymn and when they...
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    Sci Fi vs Fantasy, where's the distinction?

    So why don't you?;)