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Charles and Camilla
Given the genesis of the Church of England in Henry VIII’s complicated love life, I have to confess that I find the squeamishness over re-marrying those who have been divorced to be incomprehensible. I am pleased that the Archbishop of Canterbury is getting involved. However it seems to me that if he can bless a…
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Ash W 2
Today has been an excellent Ash Wednesday. A world record turn-out (for Bridge of Allan) of penitents. The Freddie Mercury number during the penitential liturgy went down a storm. An early problem with ash that was too clean was solved by cutting it with charcoal from the thurible. I gave one of the servers the…
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Dictionary Definition: Collaborative
1. To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort. 2. To cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one’s country. ho hum
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Ash Wednesday
Teach us to care and not to careTeach us to sit still.
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Pancakes
www.anglicansonline.org has quite a funny essay on Pancakes written by Brian Reid. It includes this: The two styles of pancakes could be called thick and thin, leavened and unleavened, cakelike or cr?pelike. In England and Ireland and the antipodes, a pancake is as thin as you can make it, and usually rolled up for serving.…
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Man with a cold
I am a man with a cold. And the only remedy for a man with a cold is an audience.
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Roadsign spotting
“FOR CARLISLE FOLLOW GLASGOW”
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Sermon updated
I’ve just updated the sermon to reflect what I actually said this morning, rather than what I wrote beforehand. – Changed the ending just before the service.
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Sermon – 6 February 2005
The gospel reading that we have this morning tells us a great deal about the relationship that Christians are coming to have in the world. At one time, it could be assumed that the world was basically a Christian kind of place and that everyone in it was a person of faith, to a greater…
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Off to Dundee now
Off to Dundee today for a Chaplaincy awayday.Having been racing around the country quite a bit this week, I would much prefer to stay here and catch up on things.My meeting at the Anglican Communion Office in London along with leaders from other Inclusive Church groups was an interesting one on Tuesday. I'm sure that…