Len Payne

@lenpayne.ca

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Technical leader in the food security and poverty-relief space. Anglican. Studying MTS at Wycliffe College and engaging with Biblical scholars on the web.

Photo of a black and white cat named Kletus who was the best girl ever.

The collects for Good Friday from the 1962 BCP.

Collect of the Day for the Martyr Valentine from the 1962 BCP.

The prayer of Saint Chrysostom from the 1962 BCP.

The collect for John Chrysostom in the 1962 Book of Common Prayer.

Collect for the Third Sunday after Epiphany

If we believe that we are to participate in the physical redemption of the earth, then, obviously, when we see pollution, when we see destruction, when we see climate change affecting every living thing on this planet, we are the ones called to address that. But even if we believe that this earth will eventually go away, well, back in Thessalonians there were people who were thinking the same thing, humans being humans. Some people were actually quitting their jobs and metaphorically folding their hands and kicking back in the easy chair of life, saying, “Come, Lord, come.” They were thinking that the world is going to end anyway so why do anything. The apostle Paul wrote to them and in his inimitable way said, in a nutshell, “Get a job. Support your family. Care for the widows and the poor and the orphans.” Paul went on to talk about how we don’t know what the future holds, we don’t know the day or the time, and we are called to do what we can today. Plus, we are called very clearly by Jesus to love others. We are called to express God’s love to others and to care for their physical needs. Today, the poor and most vulnerable are already suffering the impacts of climate change and pollution and fossil fuel use.

So how can we help others today and let the future take care of itself? We are very much called to focus not on the past, not on the future, but on what we can do today as the body of Christ in the world.

Text of the Collect for the conversation of St Paul

Collect of the day for the second Sunday after Epiphany

The second collect for peace from the 1962 Book of Common Prayer

Collect of the day for the Sunday after Epiphany

The third collect, for grace, from morning prayer in the 1962 BCP.

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Your Result:
Old School Evangelical
You have non-ironically lamented the lack of Real Christianity and remind as many people as possible that "Anglicans actually invented evangelicalism." You see yourself in the tradition of Whitefield, Newton, Wilberforce, Simeon, and maybe grudgingly the Wesleys. You're less concerned about the distinction between Arminianism and Calvinism than you are about salvation by grace and growth in holiness. You may call yourself a moderate Calvinist if push came to shove, but you'd prefer to just refer to yourself as in line with the whole of the Protestant Reformation. You respect the role of formal liturgy and the sacraments in the corporate life of the Church, and think the Book of Common Prayer is the ideal liturgy for such expressions, but prefer to do extemporaneous personal or family devotions at home. You almost certainly have a favorite hymn from Charles Wesley or William Cowper and have felt it your duty to distance yourself from contemporary manifestations of evangelicalism.

The collect for Epiphany from the Book of Common Prayer

Haylee the dog.

Image of Doktor Sleepless saying "Everywhere I go, I hear the same thing: Where's my fucking jet pack? Where's my flying car? You're thinking it right now. Where's my vacation on the moon? Where's my robot lover? Where's my alien dancing girls?"

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The Collect for John Wycliffe of Oxford.

A passage from the Revised English Bible including 1 Tim 3:11 which opens with "Women in this office" in regards to the Diaconate.

Ecclesiasticus Ch 9-11 in the Revised English Bible

The Revised English Bible leather bound edition.

Double Rainbow over Fall Leaves