Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Words, words, words ...

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I've been reading. Of course, there's never a time when I don't have a book on the go, but that's fiction. As it's Lent ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

An icon evolves

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A couple of weeks ago, I went on an icon workshop. I spent four nights in one of my most familiar places, the Cathedral of The Isles on Cumb...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Defective articles and the Love of God

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I've been catching up on an unread bit of a Sunday paper, and found an interview with actor James McCardle. In the light of what I'v...
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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, February 06, 2017

A Treaty with metaphor

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I've been listening quite a bit to Leonard Cohen's final album - You want it darker - and in particular to one song that many, ...
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Monday, March 14, 2016

Fair buzzing in Oban

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Victorious table at dinner I've mulled it over for the past five days, but now I realise that Synod reports are being demanded - not...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

All we go down ...

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I was at a funeral yesterday, not as a mourner but as a provider of music, one of a quartet singing the Kontakion for the Departed at th...
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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Friday, April 10, 2015

A glimpse of heaven

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It is 4.15am when the phone rings. Our alarm call drags me from sleep in the strangely lucid state that such sudden awakenings sometimes...
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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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Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Vernacular - a poem from a sermon. Sort of.

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The opening two lines of this poem appeared unbidden in my mind as I was listening to the sermon in Holy Trinity last Sunday. Hugh, this is ...
Friday, March 29, 2013

After the ninth hour

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Dead. That’s about it, really - dead inside my head, dead inside my heart as we lift the dead weight of our friend who was more ...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

An anniversary

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George Douglas, 1888-1973. It's a while since I first mentioned George James Cosmo Douglas, onetime Dean of the diocese of Argyll a...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Importunate Witnesses

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I invite you to share a few moments of my Saturday morning. It won't take long... I am sitting in the study, working on various bits a...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Online Evening Prayer

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I've just been to Evening Prayer - sharing with people from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen without even leaving my study. Google+ has o...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

Reflecting on a link

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I've been thinking about the most recent of the Letters from the Past , in which my father introduces the subject of the bomb dropped tw...
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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Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Journey

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Of course there was no serpent. The tree's fruit was a mirror, its temptation reflection. R.S.Thomas wrote these words sometime around 1...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Knowledge of Angels

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I recently read this extraordinary book, Knowledge of Angels " by Jill Paton Walsh. It's a novel, but it's also a fable, and i...
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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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