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Word Cloud
Both Gadgetvicar and Gareth have done the word cloud thing, but it is quite fun, so here is mine. It is a cloud of words generated from one’s blog courtesy of snapshot, a company trying to sell you T-shirts. My cloud currently looks like this.
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Sermon 26 February 2006
The gospel reading this morning (Mark 2:13-22) is all about where to eat. In order to get into the gospel reading this morning, perhaps we should imagine that Jesus has turned up in Bridge of Allan this morning, just as he used to turn up the villages and the towns around the sea of Galilee.…
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Grown Up at last
Just paid my car tax. This operation involved the following steps:Remove documents from "Car Tax File"Take them to Post Office with cheque bookPay TaxReturn Home with smug look on face and file documents and cheque book. I suppose that the smug look stems from the fact that I can remember oh so well the days when…
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Church Times
Not for the first time this month, I turn to the Church Times and find myself reading about myself. This time it is an article about blogging clerics by Simon Sarmiento who commits many Good Works at http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/I do regard blogging as a part of my work now. Amongst certain friends who had the same…
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Welcome
Welcome to the Blog Congregation, Fr David Campbell.
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Sermon – 20 February 2006
It is inevitable that I am beginning to reflect on what my time here in St Saviour’s has been all about. Indeed, I am pondering what it is that that I have been trying to communicate as I have stood here in this pulpit in this beautiful church on Sunday mornings, for almost three years.…
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Ingenuity
The ingenuity and creativity of people knows no bounds.I came upon a webpage today which details using Google maps, the pubs which cathedral choirs like to drink in. Excellent.
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Case Study
To Perth this evening to spend an evening with those in the diocese who are making transitions into authorised ministries. Did two case studies – the one below and one about Civil Partnerships. Also drew them "A Course of Christian Ethics in Six Scruffy Cartoons".The first case study was this:"As a member of the ministry…
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Ethics
I’m going to spend some time tomorrow with some of the people moving into ministry in the Scottish Episcopal Church. They have a Ministry Reflections Course once a month or so.Tomorrow evening is called "Being a critical reflector".It has got me thinking about ethics again. Sometimes the internal differences that get exposed in the church…
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Gendered Curling
Does anyone know why curling competitions are divided into men’s and women’s games?Perhaps there is an obvious answer, but I cannot work it out.Possible answers that I’ve considered so far include the following:Men might generally be able to throw the stones with more force.Perhaps men and women use different sized stones.One sex has the advantage…