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hi, your news article is from 1999, do you know if the situation changed at all? maybe we should work hard towards fellowship with other Christians so other people have no excuse for controlling our Christian heritage.
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hi, an interesting topic. i think a lot of people just believe what they are brought up with and don't ask too many questions. that includes athiests plus lots of people from other religions. i don't think athiests are more closed-minded than anyone…
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mmm... all the palestinian Christians i met (and iraqis etc etc) sypmathise v strongly with the muslim/Christian/atheist palestinians and not with israel. this is also predominantly true of internet groups. i didn't meet any arabic-speaking Christia…
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hi, this link is v interesting, is it widely accepted as an accurate historical document by our current church fathers? e.g i have heard of the discourse between theodosius the jew and philip before but didn't before hear about the idea that Jesus h…
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ok, i would advise people not to go into the wilderness, alone, this is not monasticism but rather suicide ;) so 1st try 'serving God in the world' and being the best at whatever you are currently doing (work, helping your parents in their busines…
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i am glad u all like hymns, me too! 1. my favourite of all time is thoak ta te gom (yours is the power, the glory, the blessing and the majesty), this is the 1st coptic hymn i learnt and i think it's funky. 2. very early sunday morning (does anyone …
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in response to my friend theophilus, yeah pray 4 someone showing 2 much. maybe ask a lady u know well to have a quiet word, if it's a regular thing. (don't talk to her yourself as a guy, she will die of embarassment!) at the same time check out you…
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yeah, i agree with no showing 2 much (that should be outside of church as well!) and for men, no really tight t-shirts or tight trousers, we ladies can be weak as well! but i don't agree 100% u have 2 be smart, God accepts u as u r. ok, maybe it's a…
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yup. someone has invented a Christian martial art! check this as well, i'm on lunch break at work, don't have sound on this. so all i can see is a guy with a pretty big sword. not sure this is one u should try at home ;) but i wouldn't be 2 negat…
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hot off the press! actually publihed 10 days ago but i just found it.. from 'church in chains' an irish charity (mentioned in the british orthodox website), discussing the human rights watch report that came out last month: http://www.ccfc.ie/node…
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the above is a great summary of the situation, better than i could have put it. i would like to add that my own interest in eritrea was stimulated by an article in the british orthodox magazine, the glastonbury review, which was given to me by abba …
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the post above is quite long, but read it! it's worth more than 20 short posts :)
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guys, didn't u notice GArgiriadis was being sarcastic? he has a point, though. if one person disagrees with another, that's ok, it's why we have discussion. but when lots of people start disagreeing with one person, it might get a bit intimidating f…
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thanks so much, Godislove, will be singing it on way to work!! God bless u :)
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thanks so much, jy deacon! i looked for this for about a year and you replied in the same day! the translation is v beautiful. :) :) i don't suppose anyone has it in arabic...
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hi marina and all women who would like to serve more, there are loads of things girls and women can do, like giving out envelopes for the collection of money, washing and filling the cups for the water after communion, teaching sunday school, cookin…
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there is also some discussion on this topic at http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php?topic=7302.0 and this link has itself got a link in the last post to another discussion that is also related. it is the grace of God which is important.
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well done, good work :)
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i agree with theophilus1 :) many people have believed on evidence and many others on faith. some people work out the philosophy, others have dreams and visions and others are drawn to Jesus by the life and kind and challenging words of Christians. …
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ok, guess i'm just 2 empathic, had 2 many terribly embarrasing incidents in childhood... ;)
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except yr last one, qt, that was 2 painful to be funny, probably none of them quite knew what to do either, people assume culture is absorbed through the skin! in the british orthodox church once, the metropolitan was chatting and i passed the biscu…
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you guys are killing me, i'm trying to eat and i can't stop laughing ;) maybe we will never loose concentration during the mass coz we are watching to see if anything funny happens! lol
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hey just thought i'd confess, i didn't manage to do the psalms this time. my friend and i got lost going round in circles trying to find the cathedral in south england and then when we got near it we just found this big old house and we were looking…
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the agpeya is private as well as communal, i mean u can pray it at home each day. in practice most of us do it when we can as we don't all mange (esp me!) to repeat 7 groups of prayers and a bunch of psalms each day (it contains just under half the …
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ya haram ya habibee, you sound sad. remember we all love you a lot, but not as much as God does :)
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ok, thanks. btw i did the psalms before mass yesterday, although not quite at the right times, it was still lovely though. i am going to church again today (baraka kibeera) :) so will try again, it's a really good discipline to attempt. i said atte…
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i agree that if you can't concntrate you should pray. i would be surprised if anyone can concentrate for 2 or 3 hours! i find about once every 15 - 30 mins i switch off for 1 or 2 mins, usually we are still on the same page in the book / projector,…
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oh, sorry. i read that drinking the holy water does not constitute breaking the fast. i think the priest can't join in with eating falafel sandwiches etc after the mass, because he has not quite broken the fast. is that true? and can any fasting per…