Ancient Solutions : Christian Consumerism & Liturgy with Rev. Frank Ritchie

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05/26/18 • 70 min

In this episode, Scottie and Spanky meet with the Reverend Frank Ritchie. Frank runs a church in Hamilton called Commoners that has no musical worship and centres itself around liturgy and silence. This episode asks how Frank's approach might offer a solution to the growing influence of consumerism on how congregations worship together today. Here are two helpful resources we mentioned on the episode:
A New Zealand Prayer Book : He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa
http://anglicanprayerbook.nz
Night Prayer No.6 (skip to p.184)
http://anglicanprayerbook.nz/167.html

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