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The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba has urged the church’s senior clergy in-training to live up to the expectations and standard of Anglican clergy. Addressing the clergy, who were undergoing a two-week Advanced Management Course, themed, Anglican Pastoral Ministry in the 21st Century at Ibru Centre Agbarha-Otor, via Zoom, Ndukuba charged them to use the opportunity to develop themselves to the church’s standard. Quoting 2Timothy 2:15, the Primate tasked them to be in touch with the truth of the Gospel, as expressed in the historic Anglican formularies, namely, the Book of Common Prayers, Articles of Faith and the Church doctrines, and keep contending for the Faith. He noted with regret that what the Church of Nigeria stands against are gradually infiltrating the church and urged the clergy to make themselves available and fight for the Faith. ....
Christmas under the Puritans Both the religious and the secular celebration of Christmas was forbidden by the English Puritan republic, but by no means everywhere with success. There has been no stranger episode in the long history of the English Christmas than the attempt to suppress both the religious and the secular celebrations during the period between 1644 and 1659. Why was it made, and how far did it succeed? John Knox was alone among the great Reformers in condemning all Church festivals and, at any rate until the Civil Wars, few English Puritans seem to have wished to do away with Christmas as such. To others than their sympathizers it must sometimes have been a distinction without much of a difference. The Puritans objected to the Popish associations of Christmas and to the excesses such as play-acting, gambling and dancing with which as the great national holiday it was associated more than any other season. But neither of the chief Puritan critics o ....