Clay Nelson - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:44:49 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Clay Nelson - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Bible in schools - Christians disagree about it https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/07/20/teaching-religion-in-schools-christians-argue-with-each-other/ Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:30:08 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=30030

An Anglican priest's support of the Secular Education Network's campaign to stop the Bible in Schools programme has prompted New Zealand's two Anglican Archbishops to reaffirm their Church's support of the Churches Education Commission's Bible in Schools programme. In an interview on Television One, the Reverend Clay Nelson, an associate priest at St Matthews in the City in Auckland, said Read more

Bible in schools - Christians disagree about it... Read more]]> An Anglican priest's support of the Secular Education Network's campaign to stop the Bible in Schools programme has prompted New Zealand's two Anglican Archbishops to reaffirm their Church's support of the Churches Education Commission's Bible in Schools programme.

In an interview on Television One, the Reverend Clay Nelson, an associate priest at St Matthews in the City in Auckland, said the Bible in Schools programme is an imposition on the human rights of children as it restricts the freedom of other religions which is protected under the Bill of Rights.

The Archbishops say the Anglican Church in New Zealand has long supported the Churches Education Commission' Bible in Schools programme, both financially and in principle, and will continue to do so.

Their stament concludes:

"This is long-standing agreement which honours the freedom of choice we enjoy in this country, as well as the right of parents to influence their children's spiritual and moral development.

We honour the work of the hundreds of volunteers who continue, in a loving, sensitive and non-manipulative way, to offer access, when asked, to this heritage in our schools"

The Reverend Clay Nelson is an Anglican priest trained and ordained in the U.S. He emigrated to Aotearoa New Zealand in August 2005. Shortly after arriving he began his ministry at St Matthew's using his background in communications and web development to develop an "online virtual church."

In a lecture " The Value of a Secular Society" presented to the New Zealand Association of Humanists and Rationalists, he describes himself as a non theist. He says faith is "about ethical living rooted in finding our better self in higher purpose"

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St Matthew in the City is in illustrious company. Each time its priests Glynn Cardy and Clay Nelson commission a billboard they join a long line of popes and cardinals that have used provocative art to shift our thinking. Using images to shift established thought patterns is always a fragile endeavour as no-one, not even a powerful Read more

St Matts billboard upholds Catholic tradition... Read more]]> St Matthew in the City is in illustrious company. Each time its priests Glynn Cardy and Clay Nelson commission a billboard they join a long line of popes and cardinals that have used provocative art to shift our thinking.

Using images to shift established thought patterns is always a fragile endeavour as no-one, not even a powerful pope, can control how the images will eventually appear or how any of us will receive them.

Although it might seem surprising now, Michelangelo's work raised hackles. His most controversial work was The Last Judgement that now sits resplendent within the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican's inner sanctum where cardinals eyeball it each time they gather to elect a new pope.

Along with the accusations of heresy, the most famous complaint about The Last Judgement was from the Vatican's Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, who said "it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns."

Continue reading Sande Ramage's blog
'St Matts billboard upholds Catholic tradition'.

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Sande Ramage is an Anglican priest and blogger.

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