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Easter Baptism

Posted in Faith, tagged , , , on 23 March 2008 | 1 Comment »

I took the kids into town this afternoon for the baptisms outside St Mikes.  As last year, the Arch Bishshop of York, John Sentamu, was leading the activities.
Here’s a pic (taken by holding my camera in the air as I couldn’t see!)

Here’s the BBC coverage.

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York CU Easter ‘08 Video

Posted in Faith, tagged , , on 17 March 2008 | No Comments »

This is a clip produduced by York University Christian Union for this Easter.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3-k4KJ8LQ

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York Easter 2007 Baptism Round-up

Posted in Faith, tagged , , , on 13 April 2007 | 2 Comments »

There has been some great coverage of the Easter Outdoor Baptisms in York this year. Here’s some of the links:

York County Press
AOL
Metro.co.uk
MSN
CBS
Daily Express
Daily Mail
Tiscali News
The Guardian
The Lancashire Evening Post
One Voice York

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G2 Egg Hunt

Posted in Faith, tagged , on 2 April 2007 | No Comments »

G2 had a great picnic yesterday at Lotherton Hall. The Great Boiled Egg Race was a definite highlight!

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Flame Resistant Ash Wednesday

Posted in Faith, tagged , , , , , , , on 21 February 2007 | No Comments »

Today is Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent.
I’ll be nipping over to York Minster or St Mikes Church at some point this morning to take part in one of the special services for this day. During the service each person has a cross marked on their forehead in black ash as a [...]

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Metric Easter

Posted in Faith, tagged , on 20 February 2007 | No Comments »

Today is Shrove Tuesday, also known a Mardi Gras (literally ‘Fat Tuesday’) and referred to by most as Pancake Day.  Tomorrow starts the beginning of Lent.
In a modern world one of the problems of Easter and Lent has nothing to do with the religious concepts involved but rather the setting of the date itself.
The definition [...]

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