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It does feel good to get back home from Yorkshire. Well specifically, it does feel good to get back home from Wakefield.And tomorrow, to Leipzig. Well, metaphorically speaking. The choir are going to be taking the congregation there at 10 am with a fantastic hymn arrangement by Bach of All Glory Laud and Honour which…

No lace, alas, but we did get a purply blue shirt, a large official ring and a pectoral cross. Indeed, all the C of S ministers in the party were wearing very prominent clanking pectoral crosses. Bishop all, of course.

Today's excitement, if that is the word, is lunch at the University of Stirling with the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Iain Torrance is almost at the end of his moderatorial year. He has been pleasingly unpredicatable too. At the time he was nominated it was widely seen as a…

Yesterday, I was the assessor for a Brownie Guide Faith Discovery Badge. Yet another thing I was not taught to do in theological college. However, the Brownie was very impressive, passed the badge easily and o­ne of the pictures that she drew is now o­n the church website – www.saint-saviour.org

Why did my sister need to get married this week? Holy Week is almost upon us but my normal preparations are interrupted by a wedding.  Today there is a lot to be done to get ready. There are the Sunday Services to prepare, a Eucharist at 1100. A funeral at 1430. A funeral to organise…

An infuriating three days of web outage. For some reason, my webspace provider suffered a denial of service attack and did not deal with it terribly well. I', glad my livelihood does not depend o­n them.I am unsure whether anything sent to me at anything@thurible.net has got through successfully – anyone who thinks they have…

I've now lost count of the number of people who have suggested that I am the person for the Web Pastor job which the Diocese of Oxford are setting up.I suspect that there is an interesting job to be done in the Diocese of Oxford. Whether it is possible to set up a church which…

Here is a piece of wisdom from Stirling Council, who are changing refuse collection days:For some households their new bin day may be the same as their old o­ne.

Went to the Macrobert cinema last night to see The Dreamers – set in Paris in 1968. I was reminded that o­ne of the people I trained for the priesthood, who now also works in this diocese, who often said that my true millieu was the Left Bank in '68. I suspect that he thought that I…