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Sacristy Safari
What a great time I had this morning in Young Church. One of the things that we’ve been working to change, in devising a new programme for younger members in St Mary’s, is to build in some more contact with clergy. Today was the first clergy day in Young Church and I was the designated…
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Agony
If you were able to ask a church agony aunt/uncle a question, what would it be?
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Bishop in Daily Record
What’s that? Did I see one of our bishops in the Daily Record today? Indeed I did, and kudos to Bishop Bob Gillies for leading the debate against caffeinated alchoholic drinks.
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Not being one to blow mine own trumpet
I wonder if you would kindly go over to the ScotBlog Awards and cast your vote in my direction. Blessings abound if you do.
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Winning the War
Seems like we’ve just lost a battle, but we’re winning the war. So sad to see the Archbishop of York standing up in the House of Lords to fight for the church’s right to discriminate against those who work for it. Extraordinary to see the Bishop of Winchester say that he “should be very surprised…
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Feast of Change
Today is the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul. The old joke is of course that its something worth praying for. However, I like to keep it. It reminds me that the most murderous and violent opponent of the early Jesus movement did do a complete turn around on the road to Damascus. Still…
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Sermon for Epiphany 3 Year C
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Traffic Lights out
Anyone coming to St Mary’s tomorrow might note that there are temporary traffic lights at the junction of Great Western Road and Napiershall Street. This has been causing some congestion today. Presumably it will not be as bad tomorrow, but forewarned is forearmed, or whatever the expression is.
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Prayer for the Day – Script 6
And here is the final one of the batch of Prayer for the Day scripts that have been going out on Radio 4 every day this week: Good Morning Someone asked me the other day what is the first memory that I have. I was able to tell them and to date it exactly. I’m…
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Prayer for the Day – Script 5
Here’s what I said to the nation this morning on Radio 4 at 0543: Good Morning It is fifty-one years ago today since the death of Cecil B DeMille – film producer extraordinaire, showman and master of monumental movie experiences. Cecil B DeMille was responsible for giving us epic expectations in the cinema and epic…