• New Year Predictions for 2018

  01/01/2018

  1. General Election in the second half of the year.
  2. “…and as the polls close, our exit poll predicts that the Conservative Party is unlikely to be able to form a new government…”
  3. The next but one leader of the Conservative Party becomes Ruth Davidson MP.
  4. The hipsters get bored of vinyl and discover cameras with actual, you know, film.
  5. No date for a new referendum on Scottish Independence.
  6. No progress for LGBT affirming Anglicans in England.
  7. Progress for LGBT affirming Anglicans elsewhere, particularly Brazil.
  8. Increasing realisation that sexual abuse is part of church culture. #churchtoo #metoo.
  9. FTSE lower at the end of 2018 than it is at the beginning. (7687)
  10. The end of the beard.

Previous Posts

• Herald Article: Pride and Frustration

  08/08/2013

  This article appeared in the Herald newspaper today. I will be joining the Pride Glasgow march this weekend with mixed feelings – pride at how much has been achieved and concern at how much that needs to be done. I’ll be marching with hopes high that before Pride comes around next year, the Scottish Parliament…

• A Hymn for the Feast of the Transfiguration

  06/08/2013

  Hey! Let me know you You’re all that matters to me Hey! Let me show you You’re all that matters to me Hey! Let me love you You’re all that matters to me (Oh come on) Hey! So come on yeah See the light on your face Let it shine, just let it shine Shine…

• Seen on the way to the cathedral

  05/08/2013

• Sermon preached on 4 August 2013

  04/08/2013

  I used to work in a church with murals. Well one mural. It wasn’t this church and it wasn’t these glorious murals. It was somewhere else entirely. (By which I mean Edinburgh). Throughout the late fifties, the sixties and early seventies, a sustained period of liturgical reform had happened. The altar had been pulled away…