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Sermon
Here is last Sunday's sermon, which one or two people have been asking for. The Gospel reading that I have just read contains within it something of a conundrum. There is a hidden puzzle in it. An embedded surprise. We are reading just at the start of Mark’s gospel – the first of the gospels…
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Flyposting for Jesus
To the University of Glasgow yesterday for a seminar in the theology department. One of the questions we were looking at was, “Who owns clergy bodies?” (Answers on a postcard, please). The other one was about whether churches attitudes to same-sex couples inhibits people’s human rights. In in dealing with these questions, I was quite…
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Primates Meeting Communique
The Primates of the Anglican Communion have been meeting this week in Egypt. Their communique can be read here. I see also that they have been hobnobbing with Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Church. Just before being ordained, I spent some time in Egypt, including a very memorable and enjoyable evening at one of…
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2009-02-01 Kelvin Holdsworth
Here is the sermon from this morning. (Note that I've been having technical problems for the last week or two and getting the sermons off one of the two video cameras has not been succesful). I want, this morning, simply to say a couple of things about the feast day which we are celebrating this…
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There's probably no …
Previous chatter here.
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Dolls – National Theatre of Scotland
To the Tramway last night for Dolls a production from the National Theatre of Scotland. It is perhaps singularly appropriate that a production adapted for the stage from a film turns into such a mixed media event as this. Not so much a play as a ballet with a few words. Not so much a…
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The Love for Three Oranges – RSAMD
The Love for Three Oranges is the strangest of works. Surreal in fact. So what could be more natural than a staging which took is visual reference points from surreal and pop art. Dali, Magritte, Duchamp and Warhol were all referenced in this wittily directed production. Indeed, it was a very visual production in which…
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What are you listening to?
Oh, thank you for asking. Its been a while since you did. (Just for your information, I’ve now stopped listening every day to the recording of me on Radio 4 – we all have to move on sooner or later). Right at this minute, I’m listening to Prokofiev 6 but simultaneously thinking about the brilliant…
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I think the BBC have got this wrong
So here is the DEC Gaza appeal. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7aCFKM4rq0]
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Pope on Friendship
Last Sunday, when I was preaching unto the Nation on the wireless, one of the things that I was speaking about was that I believe that we are all called to friendship with God. I think that for me, friendship is fairly fundamental to my concept of God and also one of the basic motivators…