Showing posts with label SEC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEC. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Tea-parties and bigotry

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I've just been reading a most unedifying church magazine. It's called SATNav, and purports to help the good people of Ayr to navigat...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

There, then, you have it. Synod recollected in tranquillity.

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We used to have an English teacher, a formal, pin-suited, begowned sort of chap, who was in the habit of saying "There, then, you ha...
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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Crisis? What crisis?

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In what has been described as the biggest crisis to engulf it in living memory, over 50 Scottish Episcopalian Church (SEC) clergy – arou...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

A letter to the Bishops

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The following letter speaks for itself. I am proud of the signatories, and proud to add my name by posting it here. Dear Bishops of the Scot...
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Long ago, in a universe far away ...

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I have been thinking I ought to write to the College of Bishops about that pronouncement that is now all over yesterday's Herald , quit...
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

On rage, and prophetic leadership

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I've not been blogging for a bit, and it'd be good to be able to post another Advent piece, a poem perhaps or something I wrote prev...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Time to think ... about Synod

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P's & G's, complete with MDF gallery? By the time I finish writing this, I'm sure everyone else will have moved on. But ...
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Sunday, March 02, 2014

Of straight talking and overturning tables

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Over the past 40-odd years I've found myself back in the position in the choir stalls of Cathedral of The Isles which gives this view ...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

How long, O Lord ...?

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I've been putting off writing for myself about church and state and same-sex marriage. I've exploded, once, on the Primus' blog ...
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Of fear, cheese and a shoogly crozier...

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Two rants in a row. Never mind, today feels more positive. Largely, that's the doing of two Argyll and The Isles clergy who managed to a...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

Grey day transfigured

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Holy Trinity church Originally uploaded by goforchris . It's a grey morning. I'm already damp because my umbrella was in the ...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Fiddling at Synod?

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Oh dear. I've been remiss in my blogging - but I've been away. Not more continental junketings, alas, but at the General Synod of th...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Another Advent poem

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I've posted another Advent poem on frankenstina. I'm grateful for the commission that led me to write it, and hope that as the maga...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Synod - a personal take

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Bishop Katherine addresses Synod Originally uploaded by goforchris . I spent the end of the week at the General Synod of the Scottish E...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

New blog on the block

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There's a new blogger on the Pisky scene. The Revd Andrew Swift arrives in Dunoon this week, and it's high time his aptly named blog...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Burning zeal

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End of a successful fire... Originally uploaded by goforchris . After a frustrating 24 hours of internetlessness, now mercifully resolve...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Loud twittering

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Is Twitter the big thing these days, then? Yesterday a media job was advertised through Twitter and the applicant twittering about his succ...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

1984 : finis

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Before drawing the curtain on my 1984, a few last thoughts. Writing about it was strangely cathartic, and I wonder if I would have felt less...
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