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David's Lamentation – Sermon for 9 August 2009
The video camera ran out of memory this morning before it recorded the sermon, so I'm afraid I can only offer the text. However, before it ran out, it did record me singing David's Lamentation which came between the first two readings. A useful reminder that it is not only by listening to sermons that…
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Back from Camp
I was with the Scout’s last night at their International Jamboree at Auchengillan which is about 10 miles away from here. It is just beyond Milngavie and just, I think in the county of Stirling, which is why the Provost of Stirling was hosting a reception for visitors. [Note to foreign eyes, a Provost in…
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Assisted Suicide
You know, I find myself increasingly uneasy with the way that assisted suicide legal cases are being reported in the press. The tone of some of the reporting of Debbie Purdy’s legal case this week was triumphalist and as though she was some kind of freedom fighter. Whilst I do think that she has the…
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Pat McBryde RIP
I’ve just been hearing the news that a former member of this congregation has died. Pat McBryde died this morning after quite a long illness. I knew Pat when she worked in the General Synod Office. She was a force for much good and without whom the Scottish Episcopal Church would be immeasurably poorer. I…
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Swine Flu Sermon
Preached in St Mary's Cathedral on 26 July 2009 Every now and then you get an event which makes all the clergy telephone one another. It happens when a bishop announces his retirement, for example. Sometimes it happens when someone gets themselves in one of the newspapers, especially in the tabloid press. Not, that it…
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Swine Flu & the Cup
It has been a rather odd couple of days trying to make sense of what we should and should not do in worship, in Glasgow, at this stage of the swine flu pandemic. Sometimes we all just want to be told what to do, and I think that this is one occassion where clergy would…
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Saucy Salome
Here is a sermon that I preached recently which didn't make it online until now. (I've been catching up with posting sermons online. There is also one from Fr Ivan Draper here from last Sunday on the preaching page too). Ah, here she comes. Salome shimmers into view. We get her saucy story, appropriately enough…
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Moonstruck
Today is the anniversary of something special. I know you know that it is the anniversary of the moon landings, but I bet you don’t know why that is special to me. Well, that event forty years ago is my first memory. Or, at least, it is the first memory that I can accurately date.…
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General Convention Press Briefing
A quote from my previous post about the American Episcopal Church's General Convention was used to prompt comments from those giving the final press briefing at the convention. There is a quick video clip here. The first person to answer the question is Bonnie Anderson, President of the House of Deputies. The second is Bishop…
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What's going on in America?
There is quite a lot going on in the Anglican world this week. The Church of England Synod was meeting, but did not make much headline news, with the exception that they decided not to shift power from committees and boards to bishops. (ie from laity, clergy and episcopacy to episcopacy). More interesting is what…