The recent academic scandal involving Jason Arday raises a question for me: are elite education institutions now more concerned about building positive public perception than they are about shaping students into decision-makers prepared for top roles in business, politics, science, […]
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The gospel reading for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost this year, features the account from the Gospel of Matthew of Jesus walking on the water. It immediately follows the miracle of the ‘Feeding of the Five Thousand.’ Before dispersing the
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Over the past two years I have been on a journey to find answers to questions posed by science regarding my Christian beliefs. For the most part I am comfortable with the answers I have found, even if they have
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In the gospel reading for the Second Sunday of Easter, we heard the story from the Gospel of John of the Apostle Thomas refusing to believe the other apostles when they told him that Jesus had appeared to them risen
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The gospel reading for the Wednesday morning Eucharist this week was the ‘Road to Emmaus’ story from the Gospel of Luke. Found only in Luke’s Gospel, the story centres on a journey from Jerusalem to Emmas that two of the
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Easter is marked by the death and resurrection of Jesus. Central to the Christian Faith is the notion that Jesus died for us, that is, to atone for the sin of all humanity, and was subsequently raised from the dead
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Every year on Palm Sunday Christians commemorate the so-called Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, which was the entrance that Jesus made into the city the week before his death. While each of the four gospel writers describe the event differently, there
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The Anglican Communion consists of 47 national and regional churches/provinces, each headed by its own archbishop/bishop, that share an established relationship based on the principles, theology and doctrines of the Anglican tradition. With approximately 85 to 110 million members, it
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I recently had breakfast with my three children, their respective partners, and my six grandchildren, who are all either attending primary school, kindergarten or childcare. During the conversation over breakfast it was mentioned that one of the primary schools where
In the spiritual reflection from last Sunday’s pew sheet, the Cistercian monk and spiritual writer Michael Casey wrote, “The history of salvation, as it is presented to us in the Bible, is punctuated by moments of theophany—that is, when God
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