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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Monday, April 13, 2015

The Road to Siem Reap

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Listening to Vaughan Williams as I am borne along  a Cambodian highway the red dust billowing at our passing I hear the co...
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, April 07, 2015

A visit to Hell

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I've been putting it off, I realise - but now, before I allow it to fade in my mind, I have to write about my visit to Cambodia's ...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

I'm back ....

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Saigon skyline I've been away. I'm back. And actually I've been home for a fortnight, but so far I've not felt able to ...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Another birthday, more memories ...

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Another week, another rush of birthday memories. My second son was born on a bleak February day 37 years ago, exactly 4 years and one week a...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

I remember it well ...

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 I've been thinking about birthdays today - not least because it is the birthday of my firstborn. Now he's a very adult person and...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

On cooking, baking - and custard creams

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I've been thinking about food. Or, to be more accurate, I've been thinking about cooking and baking and how I feel about these activ...
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

A kind of madness ...

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It's a sort of madness, I suppose. This need to be out of doors, preferably away from streets and cars and - if I'm honest - other...
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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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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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