Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Not easy on a bus

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I was reflecting the other day how much more difficult simple faith (in God, mostly, on this occasion, but not exclusively) has become in th...
Monday, August 24, 2015

No scones, no stereotypes

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I found myself thinking about Mission in church yesterday. I suspect something in the sermon triggered such thoughts, and the reflection ...
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Monday, April 27, 2015

Being Wilma, or a day in the life of a church organist.

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I shared the joke on the right the other day, on my Facebook page. Dead funny, eh? Wee Wilma with her big organ and her shotgun. Snigger. ...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

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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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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Friday, April 25, 2014

Cascading across the years ...

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Next week there is to be a meeting in Pitlochry - a Cascade Conversation called Listening across the Spectrum. Cascading I understand - I w...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

How was it for you?

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It was great. I need to say that right away. After - as I found out today - 28 weeks in our own particular wilderness of worshipping on a ...
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Sunday, February 03, 2013

Rebus in arduis *

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It's Sunday. You've celebrated Candlemas, because you could - a day late, but in the boondocks you can't celebrate too often and...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Lights in the darkness

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..and more candles Originally uploaded by goforchris . All right - I'm late with a blog post on Christmas . Tough. I've no...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Advent: waiting in the moment

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Advent again. And every year, a little more suddenly than the preceding year, the same ritual tasks - that moment when you realise that it...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Confessions of a church cleaner

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Water jug Originally uploaded by goforchris . I'm just back from the last stint for now of church cleaning. My partner-in-crime a...
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Thursday, December 01, 2011

Magic in the Mass?

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I've just been at a Roman Catholic mass for the first time in about 20 years. It wasn't your normal mass - it was the priest's S...
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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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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Of plain chant, coal heavers and feathers...

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I've referred recently to singing plainsong  - though the singing of the example on this Wiki page wouldn't encourage anyone, I fear...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Hats from the past

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It's amazing how one - or at least I - can become obsessed with a subject. I've always known this - at least from the period of Anci...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Montserrat and Deus Absconditus

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Montserrat Originally uploaded by goforchris . All the guide books and sites tell you that a visit to Montserrat from Barcelona is a mu...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

We are marching

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Every now and then, someone at church remarks on the apparent miracle of the suitability of the hymns (chosen by Mr B) for the lectionary of...
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Monday, November 02, 2009

Pipe to the spirit ...

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Thought I'd join the hymn fray before it's all over bar the singing ... It's harder these days to find hymns that I can bear to ...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Sponged, again

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Yesterday evening I was in a packed church - and St John's, Princes Street is quite a size to pack - to hear Bishop Jack Spong talk abo...
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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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