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Rejoice, Bridge of Allan – broadband is here.I might just feel a twinge of pride. Broadband has been a long time coming and it was quite hard to convince a lot of people that it was worth signing up for.I felt another twinge of pride last night in having the Primates' Statement up o­n the Changing…

The Primates of the Anglican Communion are meeting in London today and tomorrow. Spare them a prayer – they need it. It is becoming hard to see what they could do that would help the situation, except perhaps all leave and all say nothing except that they have decided to meet again to discuss it…

Someone left behind a vegetarian haggis in the rectory the other day.I managed to rescue it before the cat got hold of it. I plan o­n eating it. I do have to get over my squeamishness about eating the entrails of carrots and potatoes first though. I never liked the idea of it all being wrapped up…

Members of the choir from St Saviour's have been invited to sing, along with others, at an induction service in Stirling at the start of November.  I received the music yesterday afternoon. It was unknown to me. It is also unplayable by me. I find it curiously reassuring that someone locally aspires to music that…

I heard this morning that Bishop Michael Henley has announced his retirement date. [Well actually I heard it from a member of Glasgow diocese yesterday afternoon – I am pretending to myself that I heard the news today]. He will retire in July next year. Bishop Michael will have completed more than 10 years as…

One of the o­nly ways of dealing with fundamentalism is by laughing. I heard this as part of an o­nline sermon today -“Never trust a fundamentalist with two eyes.”The preacher was preaching a couple of weeks ago o­n the bit where Jesus tells people to tear out their eyes or cut off their limbs if…

What a change the internet makes. I have just read the name of the Leeds United sportsperson who is being held on rape charges – the mainstream media is unable to broadcast his name due to legal restrictions, yet anyone with internet access can read it very easily indeed. The internet means everything changes, including…

Whilst flicking channels on the television yesterday I happened upon the beginning of the Tory party conference in Blackpool. They began with something which I found rather disturbing – a religious (nay, Christian) service led by a vested Anglican priest. Now, I know that there are Anglican priests who are Tories, as we even have…

When I get too depressed about America – which happens more these days than it ever used to do – I just have a moment of thankfulness for the internet. It has its roots in a US military network that was designed to function even if nuclear war had been inflicted o­n us. What started…