Sunday, January 03, 2010

 

Assumption of Equality

I preached at both the 0800 and the 1000 services today (and we did lots of incense at the 1000, which made a nice change). I talked about how the Epiphany is a sign that, from that one night when God took flesh, there was an Assumption of Equality. Everybody starts out equal: to be saved, you need only to be what those first exiled from the Garden of Eden were, which is a sinner. And to be human means to be a sinner.

There is an assumption of equality, as Paul explains in Galatians 3:28:

You don't need to be purified, to be Jewish, to be white, to be black - none of this matters. And this extends to those standing behind the altar: whether it's me, John, Clifford or Viv. It doesn't matter whether we're young, old, black, a woman, gay, straight: what matters is that we're human. And it's even more so for that rather bigger issue than ordination, salvation. If we ordain because we baptise, than how much more so will God save because he loves us.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

 

Indiscriminate Inclusivity

I urge you to read this post: Indiscriminate Inclusivity: Of Course by the Methodist minister Mark Sargent. As he points out, inclusivity can't be qualified. I'd say it's a bit like saying that someone's "a little bit pregnant": are you inclusive, or aren't you? I think that it's a badge were with pride.

Took the girls to the zoo today, and apart from the tears over the scary Hallowe'en "Forest", and the opening up of the lip on a tooth through hitting a metal bar on falling off a seat, it all went pretty well.

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Friday, April 11, 2008

 

SecondLife

Check out the Ulfilas project. Good stuff going on, and it's interesting.

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