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Chalkegate
There has been more than enough said about schism in the Anglican Communion recently. What has gone mostly unreported is a very similar schism in the Evangelical Alliance. It is not over sexuality but over doctrine (natch). However, the nub of the argument is very similar to the one going on within Anglicansim. Here is…
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Sermon – 14 November 2004
As I was thinking about what to say this Remembrance Sunday morning, I was thinking back to some of the things that I remember saying a year ago. I never thought when I was preparing for ministry and thinking about Remembrance Sunday services that the time would come when I was leading this kind of…
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Dripping Wax
The day begins with the discovery that someone (a member of the Orthodox church community who use the church sometimes) left a box of candles on a heater yesterday. The mess and stench greet me when I go into church at 0730 to get ready for the early service.
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Chiasmus Alert
There was an outbreak of chiasmus in the Scottish Parliament yesterday, with this comment coming from David McLetchie: “Wouldn't it be ironic if … the criminals can be smokers but the smokers will become criminals?”Very clever. Of such stuff preachers are made and preachers make stuff of.
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Apophatic
That last blog entry about the Election is an example of an apophatic blog entry. Not many of them about in the blogsphere.
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So well behaved
I'd just like you to note how good I am being at not blogging anything about the Episcopal Election in this diocese.Lead us not into temptation.
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Firefox
I know that this is a bit geeky, but I do want to recognise the significance of the Firefox launch today.I'm using Firefox rather than Internet Explorer for almost all my web-browsing now and I recommend it wholeheartedly.
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Back to Glasgow
Back to Glasgow last night – to the Episcopal Cathedral for the second time in a weekend. This time it was to go to the launch of a new collection of music from the Iona Community. Well, actually, it was a collection of quite old music from the Iona Community, but stuff that has not…
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Wikipedia
I've been tinkering with a couple of the entries in the Wikipedia, notably the one about the Scottish Episcopal Church. This would be more fun if others joined in. What are you waiting for? [For those not in the know, the Wikipedia is an on-line encyclopedia which can be edited by all its users. It…
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Lamentations
O say, does that star-spangled banner still wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?