Tag: Liturgy
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Conflict and forgiveness: A feminist critique of reconciliation in the Church
The contemporary popularity of the language and theology of reconciliation has been such that one might be forgiven for thinking that it is a concept born in post-1994 South Africa, with its link with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process of 1996 led by the erstwhile Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Mpilo Tutu. In fact,…
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Conflict and Forgiveness Interview: “The Stuggle of Love” in Sri Lanka
In this next contribution to our Conflict and Forgiveness cycle, Fr Thomas Sharp interviews Miranga Peiris. Miranga finished his theological training at the Theological College of Lanka, Kandy, in June last year. He is now based in Colombo, undergoing training for ordination at the Cathedral Institute. He is currently working with St Michael and All…
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Hanna Lucas: Why Am I An Anglican?
I am an Anglican to remember. I don’t mean this statement in the sense that one might say, ‘it was a Christmas to remember’; that I, personally, am an Anglican of any ‘memorable’ quality. I mean it in the sense that I am an Anglican in order to remember. For me, ‘remembering’ is the beating…
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Reitumetse Hlongwane: Why am I an Anglican?
My parents are Anglicans, and so were their parents before them. In the natural flow of things, I would then become an Anglican, and that is exactly how things happened. I grew up in the Anglican Church, I went to church every Sunday as a child and at the time there wasn’t much I understood…
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