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Sermon – Creation
Oops, I forgot entirely to set the video camera up this morning, so there is no recording of this sermon, I’m afraid. I did not realise until well into the service that the camera was not there. It is perhaps time to think about gathering a team of people who could be resonsible for dealing…
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Gay Marriage in Church in Sweden
The Church of Sweden, with which the Scottish Episcopal Church is in Full Communion, has just voted to open marriage to same-sex couples as well as straight couples. The word equivalent to “matrimony” will be used for all couples. Something to welcome. Something to celebrate.
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Clocks Change
Don’t forget that the clocks change this weekend. On Sunday morning at 2 am, clocks go back 1 hour to 1 am. You have an extra hour to plan turning up late to St Mary’s tomorrow.
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Who chooses the hymns?
I’m occasionally asked who chooses the hymns at St Mary’s. We have an extraordinarily wide repertoire. I can’t remember now how many sets of hymn lyrics we use, but I know that we have over five hundred tunes in regular use through the year. I think that the choice of hymns is one of the…
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Ooh look, its our Mel
Take a look at the Inverness Courier site today and you’ll find a profile of our Mel. It contains this comment: “he has also become diocesan piper” Who knew? Would I be right in thinking that bagpipes are things that (like wedding photographers) are ungoverned by Canon Law and perhaps ought to be?
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It isn't all the fault of Rowan Williams
When I was a theological student, we used to learn about early doctrines that came to be regarded as heresies. You had to learn all about who had condemned whom and for what at which Council. Most of the controversies were over who Jesus really was or the nature of God in the trinity. Eventually,…
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NSM History?
Can anyone point me to a concise summary, preferably online, of how and when and where Anglicans began ordaining people as Non-Stipendiary Ministers? [Note that I’m not interested in polemical publications arguing for one form of ministry or another. Its facts I want to mull over, and I don’t know them].
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Sermon for 18 October 2009 – The Whirlwind
Here is what I said in the pulpit this morning. Hearing that Gospel, I always think how real it is. If there are good seats, people always want them. And it seems very real that James and John were trying to secure for themselves the best seats in heaven. People are funny about seats, aren’t…
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The Liberal Principle
There is currently a campaign going on against a ghastly article published yesterday in the Daily Mail which was written by a woman called Jan Moir. Complaints have been made about it to the Press Complaints Commission and it seems to have been the fastest and most complained about article of all time. The PCC…
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All Time Blog Post Popularity
Here is the list of the most read bits of this website. Note that the 2 pancake articles when added together still beat the Advent Candle. Note also that on this blog, candles and pancakes are still each more than twice as interesting to my readers than the controversy over The Usual Topic. The Advent…