Showing posts with label pisky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pisky. Show all posts
Monday, November 07, 2016

Tolerant no more

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I haven't been blogging much recently - short form social media has been bad for me; it makes communication easy and brief. But I've...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Proud to march with Pride

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I'm no novice when it comes to marches, gatherings, protests and the like - from joining in a CND march when I was 16, the day afte...
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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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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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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Snuffing out the candles

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 We are in the season of Epiphany. Today I took down the (moulting) tree, put the decorations back in the loft, looked out at the rain, no...
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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, 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, 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 04, 2013

Not the Local Paper ...

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It's Sunday afternoon. Ok, it's early evening, but the idea holds: another Sunday afternoon in which I wasn't writing anything f...
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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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Monday, August 27, 2012

A child's-eye Eucharist

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I had an interesting experience at church yesterday - a first, I'd say, in 34 years. Instead of sitting in the front pew where I can h...
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...