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The Winners and the Losers
Well, the first thing to say to loyal readers who have been with me for a while is that there were no great surprises from last night’s election results, were there? After all, my New Year predictions relating to the election were not that far wide of the mark. In relation to the election, I…
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Well I’ve voted – and hope these are the political rules
I’d quite like to think these really were the political rules.
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10 Things I learned from being a General Election Candidate
Ten years ago today there was a General Election in the United Kingdom and 10 years ago today I was a candidate in it. Indeed, 10 years ago as I write this I was wearily standing at the polling station for the last 20 minutes of polling, thanking a few final voters for turning out.…
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Power needs to be baptised by love
Sermon preached by Kelvin Holdsworth on 3 May 2015 from St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow on Vimeo. In the weeks after Easter, we get the only season of the year when we don’t directly read from the Hebrew Scriptures – the books that some call the Old Testament. Instead, our first reading each week comes from…
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Dear St George – here’s 3 dragons I’d like slaying
Today is St George’s Day. Cue articles about how we know almost nothing about St George and bewilderment as to how he became patron saint of England. Instead of that, here’s a few dragons that I like to see expertly slayed in our own day. 1 – Foodbanks in the UK. When I went to…
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Can you preach about the Road to Emmaus?
This sermon was preached on 19 April 2015 in St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow using ideas that were also explored in the sermon preached for Fr Chucks Iwuagwu in Haslemere, Surrey. Sermon preached by Kelvin Holdsworth on 19 April 2015 from St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow on Vimeo. There are a number of texts in the bible…
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The Questions
I’ve just done one of those Knowing Me, Knowing You sessions that I do from time to time that allow members of the congregation to get to know me a bit and ask any questions about who I am and where I come from. I asked the group for permission to share the questions. Here’s…
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Forum with John Curtice
I was in conversation with Prof John Curtice about the General Election after the Sung Eucharist this morning. We touched on what might happen at the election, how a UK government is actually formed, will proportional representation ever happen, will the SNP propose another referendum next year and what it is like being John Curtice…
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It’s Time to End Tax Breaks for Anti-Gay Charities – including churches
There is no underestimating the difference that a change in the law can make to people who happen to be gay or lesbian. Civil Partnerships gave a level of legal protection that changed people’s lives forever. Equal marriage extended that protection by giving people the chance of being able to be regarded as equally fit…
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Jenůfa – Scottish Opera – Review
This review should appear in due course at Opera Britannia Rating: Scottish Opera have managed to present a very confident production of Janáček’s rather gloomy opera. It allows three fabulous female singers to shine brightly and makes a strong case for what might be regarded as a rather tricky original work. In what must have…