• Silence is Golden

  26/02/2015

  Forum on Silence from St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow on Vimeo.

  Somehow I managed to forget to publish this video on the blog but it is worth taking a look. It came from a forum conversation that I had with the Vice Provost, Cedric Blakey the other week.

  The point of this was to have a public chat about the way Cedric prays. One of the odd things about church is that individuals very rarely talk about their own personal spirituality and I was grateful to Cedric for being so open to having this discussion.

  We talk about this and also about:

  • whether God dictates answers to us
  • how breathing is integral to prayer
  • how to teach someone to pray
  • if you fall asleep whilst doing breathing exercises is that a sign of it working?
  • do single people need to spend time in silence?
  • how silence is golden.

  The video is a fairly short forum conversation – just 20 minutes.

  does prayer work, forum, prayer, silence, spirituality

Previous Posts

• 10 10

  14/10/2010

  Hey, have you heard about the campaign to get everyone to try to cut their energy use by 10% in the year 2010? Well, if you haven’t and you are in St Mary’s, you can find some information on a temporary noticeboard at the back of church on Sunday. Anyway, I was thinking about this…

• What am I listening to?

  13/10/2010

  Oh, thank you for asking, it seems like a while since you did. Firstly, its probably worth saying how I’m listening. I’m listening to music through the online service Spotify quite a lot these days. I’m lucky enough to have a “free” account which has the advantage of being free but the disadvantage of being…

• The Evensong Committee

  12/10/2010

  It was obvious that a committee was gathering outside before Evensong. First one, then another. A gathering next to the church noticeboard. Each looked at the board to check the time and to note what was written there. Eventually the committee numbered 8-10 individuals who nodded to one another and walked towards me as I…

• Sermon preached on 10 October 2010

  10/10/2010

  Here’s what I said this morning. More or less. Unfortunately I forgot the video camera this morning, which is a shame. There’s a rather poor audio version though – I’m afraid that’s all I have. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. I’d like to focus on…