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Exhausting but wonderful
The Sunday experience this week has fitted into the category of exhausting but wonderful. So many high-points. Three lovely baptisms. People packed to the gunnels around the font. (Is that a mixed metaphor or not, I’m too tired to know?). Zadok the Priest tonight. A new (to me) Mag and Nunc. Very busy church. Nice…
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Counting them in
This weekend is the time when the Scottish Episcopal Church counts the number of people in its churches. The figures get reported back to HQ and then get included in the annual reports that come out at synod. This year we are being asked to collect data on gender as we do the counting. The…
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How to do a guided tour of a church
Did I tell you how much fun last Friday evening’s ‘Welcome to St Mary’s” meeting was? No, I didn’t think I did. Well it was great. We had a guided tour of the building and had a good time together. I did a guided tour that I’ve done once before. Last year we had an…
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Common on the C of E General Synod
Its the Church of England’s General Synod next week. They will be debating the Anglican Covenant and hopefully kicking it into the long grass. I might have more to say about that later, but for now, the best informed comment seems to be coming from Mr CatOLick
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Sermon preached on 7 November 2010
Here's one I preached earlier.
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A present for Fr Kevin?
I wonder whether this would be a suitable present from the Province to Fr Kevin when he takes up his post as Bishop of Argyll and The Isles next year.
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What is mission?
I’m currently engaged in an interesting discussionette with Anne Tomlinson and AKMA over on Anne’s ministry development blog. I’ve just said this: …when we try to think about mission in Scotland we try to think about doing something with those who already come to church, who are generally baptised, who are generally communicants. We try…
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How to write a blog #1
Well, having looked at how to read a blog, I suppose the obvious thing to do is now put something up about how to write one. The answer I’d give anyone is to use WordPress. Its simple, lovely and oh so easy to use. You don’t need to know anything about how to make webpages.…
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How to read blogs
I posted a couple of links yesterday to some newish blogs and suggested you add them to your blog reader. I know that some folk will not know what that means, so I’ll explain here. I’m often surprised by the number of people who say, “I don’t know where you find the time to read…