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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Friday, December 19, 2014

Waiting for the dawn

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The longest night is very close now. The dark comes before we know it, and lasts so long. On these western fringes our fires burn smal...
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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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Sunday, December 14, 2014

A letter to Jim Murphy MP

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The following open letter from me to Jim Murphy, newly-elected leader of The Labour Party in Scotland, appeared in today's Sunday Herald...
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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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Monday, December 01, 2014

Taking Advent seriously

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ADVENT PROSE REVISITED Rend the heavens, come quickly down – Can we mean it? In the dark to ask the God to come like this would...
Monday, November 24, 2014

When the lights come on at four ...

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Prevented from my customary roaming by a vile cough and an unaccustomed sense of responsibility, I find myself thinking about what happen...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

November - a poem for the season of remembrance

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NOVEMBER The month of remembering - the lines of men in the stubble fields the hideous scramble over a muddy parapet, the cring...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Normandy Landing

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From heroic effort to the pathos of the broken dead, a child’s toy abandoned in the road, is only a single step into randomness. Why t...
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Monday, October 20, 2014

The Normandy Fahrt: A smug French moment at Pegasus Bridge

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I've fallen lamentably behind with my posts on the Normandy trip last month. Blame my life. It  took over the moment I was home. But t...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

Normandy Fahrt Day 3: Omaha Beach

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We spent our third day in France reliving the American experience on Omaha Beach. I felt I knew most of what happened there from endless...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Radio 4 discusses Maths - a poem of bewilderment

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Radio 4 discusses Maths There’s a magic number called e , that has the  power to solve the world’s problems, to be practical in ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Referendum Question - a poem for the aftermath

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Referendum Question Would there have been tears when the old Union died, a bitter mourning for the loss of joyous hope denied? Or ...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

A post-Referendum letter to the 45%

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I'm writing this at the end of the kind of grey day I yesterday remembered from the '80s. It's hard for me to feel the optimism ...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

I voted YES because ...

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By the time I have finished writing this post, the polls will have closed. In fact, I shall shortly stop writing so that I can watch th...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Normandy Fahrt Day 2: Gott hat das letzte wort

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Our first full day begins early. (We soon discover that this will be the norm throughout - brisk breakfasts and trotting toilettes). It i...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Normandy Fahrt: Day 1

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I've been away. And although I've been back for several days now, my days in Normandy are still very much with me - so much so th...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Summer reading

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What have I been reading recently? Nice of you to ask - I have been reading more than I might, because it's been the kind of weather tha...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

A unique privilege

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On the kind of day when I look out at the rain and mist and breathe a prayer of thankfulness that I have no visitors staying, no children ho...
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