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  • Pancake recipe

    Don’t forget my world famous pancake recipe: http://thurible.net/20040224/pancake_receipt/ Still going strong after all these years.

  • International Women’s Day

    Its International Women’s Day today. We had an interesting presentation on the Scottish Episcopal Church’s recent Gender Audit at Diocesan Synod on Saturday. Immediately after the presentation by Elaine Cameron, a bunch of men jumped up and started saying that they didn’t believe in positive discrimination. They did sound rather threatened and terribly anxious. I…

  • Radio New Zealand News Interview

    Here’s a recording of me speaking on Radio New Zealand – they were doing a special Morning Report from Christchurch today – here’s what I had to say.

  • Radio New Zealand

    Just waiting to go on air on Radio New Zealand’s morning programme to talk about the Concert for Christchurch which took place last Monday here in Glasgow. It is Sunday there and they are just moving into autumn. Its amazing that I can be listening to their morning radio show online before I get their…

  • Church of Scotland Special Commission

    There is a piece in the Herald on and apparent leak of the report of the Church of Scotland’s Special Commission. This was the commission that was set up after the debate about whether a presbytery could induct a minister who is living in a civil partnership. The exact remit was this: “A Special Commission…

  • Seeing and hearing

    Its funny the difference that video can make to a conversation. I found myself earlier this week engaged in a meeting via skype. Now, I’ve used skype plenty of times for chatting to friends, but this was the first time I’ve used it for a businessy meeting. That kind of thing clearly can’t replace all…

  • Concert for Christchurch – Running Total

    Did I happen to mention the current running total raised from last night’s Concert for Christchurch? Well, £4155 is pretty good going for one evening of fundraising, isn’t it? Could be more to come in yet.

  • Last night’s concert

    Anyone wanting to get a flavour of the Concert for Christchurch that we held last night in St Mary’s can do so by listening to Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme from earlier today. You can find it online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yrn6g and the segment you are looking for starts 1 hour, 49 minutes and 45…

  • Jane Russell RIP

    So, the world must say goodbye to Jane Russell. I choose to remember her more for this clip than for her politics: Ain't There Anyone Here For Love by avinot

  • Sermon preached on 27 February 2011

    Here's what I said earlier today in the pulpit. Consider the Lilies of the Field Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today. For the last few weeks we have been reading the Sermon on the Mount and this is the last of the…