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  • 10000 hits

    When we’ve been there 10000 years, bright shining as the sun…. The 10000th page hit on this website occurred a couple of hours ago. I had no idea when starting this weblog in August that it would reach such a number. Indeed, I had no idea that I would continue it for long at all.…

  • Bishop Watch

    I see that Richard Holloway has railed against Mel Gibson's film. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=281832004 I've no intention of going to see the film myself and for that reason, am a little wary of condemning it outright. It seems to me to be rather ghoulish to go and see such violence o­n film. I don't believe that it…

  • Last Sunday's Sermon

    Last Sunday's sermon has attracted a lot of comment in a surprising place – the bulletin board of the Ship of Fools website. The prompt for the sermon was being faced with the statistics o­n women being abused in church contexts. The underlying question is what response Churches make to intollerable behaviour in the Bible.…

  • Reviews

    In case anyone was wondering, the rather formal reviews which appear below are o­nes which I submitted to the Episcopalian for possible publication in the April edition.Yesterday was spent being appraised, dealing with chimney sweeps, speaking to people o­n the telephone, visiting someone in hospital, planning Easter, church correspondance, inspecting a newly tuned piano, sorting…

  • The Mysteries

    How can the mysteries of the faith be expressed o­n stage or film? Mel Gibson?s rather gory answer to this question is currently to be seen in cinemas across the land but for a more thoughtful and more fun version of the Passion with plenty of other biblical stories thrown in, take a look at…

  • Review – Resurrexit – Decani Music

    In the time since I was ordained some 7 years ago, there has never been a Holy Week in which someone has not telephoned to enquire where o­ne might find a copy of the Exsultet ? the ancient Easter hymn of praise. Sometimes the request is more specific ? where can o­ne find a singable…

  • Sermon – 7 March 2004 – Abram's line or Jesus's Brood

    One of the interesting revivals in recent years has been the huge increase in people looking for their ancestors. Geneology ? family trees and all that, has never been more popular. Many people have got used to the idea that you can search for anything on the internet and use it to try to do…

  • Music

    I realised today that we have made some steps forward in the congregation. In a conversation with some of the musicians, the question was not whether we were going to have a special sung setting for Easter, but which o­ne we would have, and whether or not we would have an orchestra.I also realised in…

  • Benediction

    Arrived home to find the cat worshipping the washing machine.The machine was almost at the end of its spin cycle. The juddering had cause the cat-food bag, which I had left o­n the top, to tip up. The dry cat food had emptied itself all over the top of the washing machine and was being vibrated…

  • Arrrgh

    Oh dear. I fell over in the street again. “Arrrgh” was the cry as my feet slipped on a thick layer of black ice in the middle of Stirling. It would appear that this came from window cleaners’ water. No bones broken, but a sore back. I was picked up by young people and traffic…