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Why do people from other faith groups think it is appropriate to leave their own literature at the back of open Anglican churches? This morning, I threw away four glossy brochures from the Seventh Day Adventist church. Recently it was a vitriolic publication called the Bulwark, an extremist anti-Catholic magazine. Before that it was Jehovah’s…

From my experience, politics can bring out the best in people, whilst religion often brings out the worst. o­ne of the reasons that I have kept up my involvement in a political party is that in my experience people are much nicer to o­ne another than in the church generally. I know that is shocking…

I've almost finished the new local Liberal Democrat Website – it is up for testing at the moment o­n http://stirlinglibdems.thurible.net and will be moving to www.stirlinglibdems.org.uk by the weekend.

I don’t understand what bits I need to buy in order to wireless network the several computers together.

A colleague in the diocese has died. He was a young priest. I knew him as someone who was generous and kind. He was a year older than me and died very suddenly on Friday. Another funeral I suppose.

One of the most extraordinary services I've taken here in Bridge of Allan was the week that a pipe band turned up, in full kit, for the 8 am Sunday Service. The eight o'clock is usually half a dozen of us, most more than 20 years older than me, enjoying the first, quiet light of…

The horror in Iraq grows ever deeper. The photographs of Americans torturing Iraqis have sickened me to the core. That they were doing this in o­ne of Saddam Hussain's old torture palaces has managed to lower the moral status of the continued conflict even further.Not o­nly that, but each horror like this makes it harder…

I was asked today whether I was a nun, by someone o­n a skateboard.I'm not, of course.

Once upon a time, you never saw people who were both pregnant and presenting the weather forecast on BBC TV at the same time. Now you do. The world does change.