tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post8697884627000311596..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: A Levelled ChurchyardWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-26767392346029239702018-05-22T12:23:36.826+01:002018-05-22T12:23:36.826+01:00The flattening of Churchyards, and Hardy's &qu...The flattening of Churchyards, and Hardy's "Erasing the Dead" seem to be quite appropriate for the Church which want's to be trendy and up to date, or even "Down with the Kids" forgetting that the three legged stool still has it's place in Anglican thought (even with the addition of the fourth leg of Experience).<br /><br />We want things tidy (hence the health and safety purges of Church Yards, particularly the laying flat gravestones which lean interestingly in different directions). We tend to also want things tidy in our liturgy and anything new or different unsettles us.<br /><br />So the preaching by Bishop Curry on the Royal Wedding, unsettled people who have criticised it as it challenges their nice tidy perception of how faith should be.<br /><br />But clearly, faith isn't about being Tidy, it's about personal commitment to form of faith that can blow us wildly into turbulent seas via the Holy Spirit. Faith can be challenging, messy and uncomfortable, which is something that Bishop Curry picked up and dwelt on. <br /><br />But love, hope and faith together can make a Christian life, lived in Christ and with Christ is something of beauty and wonderful to see, particularly when you meet people, exactly like that.<br /><br />We need them to help us to navigate the messiness of life, the challenges and also the opportunities that life brings, to proclaim the Gospel anew in every age. And Bishop Curry has given us some tools to use.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-34535969605074399082018-05-21T18:02:37.360+01:002018-05-21T18:02:37.360+01:00Oh the weather report is irrelevant.
The sheer i...Oh the weather report is irrelevant. <br /><br />The sheer incarnationalness of it is what it appeals. <br /><br />And she doesn' give any clues as to whether your are greater or less than a shepherd. Merely assumes you don't have a lamb to hand. Archdruid Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06481946916045861117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-53822645658969387622018-05-21T13:09:28.835+01:002018-05-21T13:09:28.835+01:00Hm. My take on ItBM:
V1: once upon a time it was...Hm. My take on ItBM:<br /><br />V1: once upon a time it was cold (completely extrabiblical)<br /><br />V2: God is bigger/greater than heaven and earth and eventually we will see that; but he chose to come down to live among us<br /><br />V3: all heaven rejoices but he chose to come down and live among us (and some more extrabiblical parts)<br /><br />V4: all of heaven rejoiced but a human loved him<br /><br />V5: My response is one of love - a sentiment most definitely not unique to this carol but expressed particularly badly, not only implying that I’m poorer than a shepherd but using one of the worst “help I need a rhyme” bodges in the entire canon<br /><br />What uniquely theological bit were you thinking of?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11735430538863573143noreply@blogger.com