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Thurible of the Week – 26 July 2014
Spotted in St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Port Glasgow. From the Epiphany Chapel.
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Wee dugs – genius
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Peter Tatchell on Outing Bishops
I was in conversation with Peter Tatchell yesterday in St Mary’s after the Sung Eucharist yesterday morning. The whole of the conversation was recorded and can be seen on the cathedral website. One of the things that I wanted to ask him about was whether he still thought it was appropriate to out gay bishops,…
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Why we sang a lament today
It has been a pretty depressing week on the news front. The downing of the plane in the Ukraine, the continued terrorism of Boko Haram in Nigeria, the invasion of Gaza and the oppression of the Christians (and other religious groups) in Iraq by ISIS have been a huge amount of negative events that feel…
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Peter Tatchell in Glasgow
You’re invited to come and hear Peter Tatchell give a human rights lecture on Saturday 19 July 2014 at 6.30 pm in St Mary’s. He’s also going to be doing a forum after the 10.30 am service on Sunday.
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Prayer for Flight MH17
It would appear from news report that are still breaking that there is a very strong likelihood that the Malaysian plane which has crashed in the Ukraine has been brought down deliberately by someone as yet unknown but connected with the conflict that rages in that part of the world. It is one of those…
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Pride Meeting Point – A Correction
This coming Saturday there will be a Pride march in Glasgow. There will be a gathering of Scottish Episcopalians (and friends) marching together in glad array. Last week I announced that we would meet at the southern end of the Wiggly Bridge (which is the Tradeston Pedestrian Bridge), which is not the Squinty Bridge (which…
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Mixed feelings about the Church of England vote on bishops
I’ve very mixed feelings about the vote that has just taken place in the Church of England Synod regarding the question of whether that church should allow women to be able to made bishops. On the one hand, I know some of the women who are likely to be made bishops and I know the…
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Sermon – the parable of the sower
The church is completely obsessed with one topic. Whenever you go to church meetings there is one thing that dominates everything and has done so for at least the last 15 or 20 years. We talk about it endlessly. Whether it is local regional chapters, diocesan synod, General Synod or even the meetings of…
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Lord Carey is wrong (and not for the first time)
The ability of Lord Carey to dominate the headlines during the synod of the Church of England is something that is a wonder of modern ecclesiastical communications. If I were working in the communications machine of the C of E, I’d despair of the former archbishop’s ability to step into the limelight just when one…