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The Kneeler: January 2011

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Monday, January 31, 2011. Good day God,. I'm not quite sure how you will take this - but - well - I'm not quite sure anymore what a Methodist vocation is. I thought I knew. Now I'm flummoxed (I like that word! But the 'Church' bit gets harder every year. I keep saying to myself - ignore the Connexion - just get on with the task of being a minister where you have been stationed. but it's just not that simple. What we do at Connexional level SHOULD affect what we do at local level. The fact is that I am em...

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The Kneeler: July 2011

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Monday, July 4, 2011. Christian conferring via twitter. Good morning God,. But some reports can and do attract comment, and I have no doubt that we will hear much praise and comment about the reports being presented today. But are such 'comments' all that remains of Christian Conferring? What of the challenge and choice that forms a part of every good conversation, the opportunity to be led to think differently as a result of deeper engagement with the issue at hand? Links to this post. Good morning God,.

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The Kneeler: Christian conferring via twitter

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Monday, July 4, 2011. Christian conferring via twitter. Good morning God,. But some reports can and do attract comment, and I have no doubt that we will hear much praise and comment about the reports being presented today. But are such 'comments' all that remains of Christian Conferring? What of the challenge and choice that forms a part of every good conversation, the opportunity to be led to think differently as a result of deeper engagement with the issue at hand? A fragrance of God. I have attended s...

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The Kneeler: February 2011

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Monday, February 21, 2011. Six Degrees of Separation. Good morning God,. I enjoyed playing six degrees of separation in yesterday's worship. Trying to make the links between the youngest member of our congregation and the queen was easy, as was finding a route to the Pope. I do know that there are some that dispute the theory of six degrees of separation, but the problem is that the Church is so global and 'connected' that it's seldom a problem to achieve the desired goal in 6 or less relationships.

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The Kneeler: Connexional Ministers and Christian Conferring

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Friday, July 1, 2011. Connexional Ministers and Christian Conferring. Good morning God,. The Ministerial session of Conference has always been an important part of my life, since I first I arrived with all the other ordinands of that year to the welcome of the Conference. Here was the collegiality that they had spoken of at the ordinands retreat, here was the example of belonging which bore witness to the claim that being received into full Connexion was as important as ordination. Where will they learn ...

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The Kneeler: September 2010

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Good morning God,. Its amazing how the knowledge of impending absence is affecting the way I feel about this week's Eucharist. This will be the last supper that I will preside at for a long time. The words of the liturgy seem to have acquired a hitherto undreamed of meaning and clarity as I prepare to leave a people that you have enabled me to love and serve by your grace. But I find I am torn by conflicting emotions and grief competes with joy as I prepare. And we pray -.

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The Kneeler: August 2011

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Hope Cup Cakes and Candles. Good morning God,. It's always tempting to try to write about something that you are interested in or a part of. The temptation to compare your facts with other people's fiction overcomes the natural (and usually very necessary) fear of looking like an idiot (so what's new! And when its about hospitables - it seems it's almost irresistible. As a Methodist Minister, I get used to meeting saints (no really! Links to this post. One of Mr Wesley's Helpe...

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The Kneeler: Methodist Apostolic Succession

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Saturday, July 2, 2011. Good morning God,. There is nonetheless, in my opinion, a more historical, lasting significant and powerful sign of our apostolic succession, and it is embedded in the order of business for the second day of the ministerial session. Following the afternoon's business, a buzz begins, quietly at first, as in ones and two's the ordinands arrive straight from the ordinand's retreat. Their joyous anticipation mingled with nervous trepidation is a powerful reminder to the gathered p...