David Emmott went to Ken Leech’s funeral: Celebrating a prophet.
Carol Kuruvilla Huffington Post These 15 Tiny Churches Have Plenty Of Personality
Onora O’Neill, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, gave the Theos Annual Lecture on Monday 19 October 2015: Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion.
Paul Handley writes about the lecture in this week’s Church Times leader: Rights and duties.
Andrew Davison Church Times Do other planets have their own Christ?
Re Andrew Davison, Do Other Planets Have their Own Christs? Indeed, a question not just for this universe, but perhaps some other universe as well? “Who can tell what other cradle, high above the milky way, still may rock the King of heaven, on another Christmas Day? God above, man below holy is the name I know. Every star and every planet every creature high and low come and praise the King of heaven by whatever name you know. God above, Man below holy is the name I know” -Sydney Carter 1915-2004 (Every Star Shall Sing A Carol) And on… Read more »
And, of course from F W Faber.
There is grace enough for thousands
Of new worlds as great as this;
There is room for fresh creations
In that upper house of bliss.
Great personality from that church in Mount Vernon, Missouri.
In one of the “Star Trek” movies, the intrepid crew of a spaceship is hosting a dinner for the crew of another spaceship from a different planet and a different intelligent species altogether. One of the humans aboard the first spacecraft mentions a “devotion to human rights”, and a guest from the second spacecraft scolds him saying his very words condemn his chauvinism, focusing on the word “human”. If God exists, and if God is concerned about ALL of God’s creatures WHEREVER they are in the Universe, then I would say it would be the height of chauvinistic folly to… Read more »
“But at the centre of his life, ministry, and vision, was Christ in the eucharist. Or rather, at the centre of his vision was the Incarnate Christ, God made flesh, who is revealed in his Body, the people of God gathered around the sacrament of the eucharist’ – David Emmot – re Fr. Kenneth Leech –
Fr. Kenneth knew what redemption and salvation were all about. He had a wonderful sense of the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist – a priestly charism. We have another friend in paradise.
re: Andrew Davison’s article: given the ever-increasing likelihood of life on other planets, I am pleasantly astounded at the Church of England’s uncharacteristic prescience on this matter. How else to explain the large number of people I trained with who would be perfect for a missionary posting to Uranus?
Dear Joan of Quark. A wonderful post! Why not send the Gafcon Primates to Uranus – where they might most probably feel ‘at home’.
@ Joan of quark, “How else to explain the large number of people I trained with who would be perfect for a missionary posting to Uranus?”
I’d be happy to have ACNA be in touch with NASA about the mission to Mars.
I’m not quite sure who would be the perfect person to be the Rector of Uranus but all this reminds me of that greatPeter Sellers Film “Heavens Above” where a mix up of clerics sees the wrong Reverend John Smallwood being sent to bring Christian Socialism and eventual chaos to Orbiston Parva. The problem is eventually solved by making him Vicar of Outer Space. Appropriately enough the ex-military Churchwarden is played by none other than William Hartnell the original Dr. Who and the premier Time Lord.