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An Anglican Priest and an Anglican Church in New Zealand: Sources of a New Hope
It was a very different kind of liturgy. The opening hymn was by New Zealand hymn writer Shirley Murray, exhorting the community of Christ to cry out for justice and peace - to disarm the powers of war and to turn bombs into bread and the tears of anguish into joy. Yet, these strong words were being sung by the vested choir led by a processional cross and a thurifer spreading the smoke and smell of incense high and far. Participants in this liturgy reflected the ethnicity of New Zealand and even its openness toward mental retardation. In the call to worship, God was defined as "Transformative Love, the mystery of life, the essence of creation and the music of the atoms within us."
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