Monthly Archive for December, 2007

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Sport on TV

Published by bcg on 5 December 2007 in Culture. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Sri Lanka v England 1st Test

This seems to have been a really exciting test match – I wish cricket would come back to terrestrial telly so we can watch some! It is very frustrating when national sport is exclusively on Sky. I think the government should ensure that all national sport can be watched free by the whole nation – especially the major sports like football, cricket, rugby, athletics/Olympics, boxing etc.

It was even more frustrating when Twickenham signed a deal so all England rugby home games were only on Sky... they are shooting themselves in the foot, by decreasing the number of people who can watch and get excited by sport.

‘Interesting’ Service

Published by bcg on 2 December 2007 in Church, Life and Theology. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

I went to a service in an Anglican church this morning.

We prayed for the souls of the dead, said that the bread and wine 'will become' Jesus' body and blood, sang the wrong words to In Christ Alone (the 'love' of God was satisfied, not his wrath), proclaimed that the Spirit proceeds only from the Father (in the Nicene creed), and used a eucharistic prayer which mis-quoted Jesus (his blood was shed for 'all', rather than 'many').

I think that most, if not all (including the denial of God's wrath being satisfied) are explicitly against the 39 Articles, and the Book of Common Prayer. In what sense was this an Anglican service, other than that it was taken by an Anglican priest? We have universalism, a denial of substitutionary atonement, and the 'presence' of transubstantiation.

Apparently the problems with the creed and eucharistic prayer were misprints... but what misprints!

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