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  • How to be Single at Christmas – repost

    This post was first published in 2010 I find myself wanting to write something about being single at Christmas. After all, I’ve got some experience to draw on. There was a time when I used to find being on my own at Christmas a tricky thing to think about, but these days its one of…

  • Gender Segregation in Universities and Elsewhere

    Having been involved in university chaplaincy a couple of times, the issue of gender segregation in universities that has come up in the news is not a new thing for me to think about. There have been a couple of news reports about issues surrounding Islamic groups in universities this week and quite a lot…

  • Rudolphus

    I’m not sure who is responsible for translating Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer into latin and setting it to plainsong. Whoever it was, they have earned an Advent Blessing and a Tip of the Biretta from me. You can hear it here:

  • Mary Magdalene – Pray for Us

    Am terribly saddened to hear news just in from the Bishop of California that two of the icons of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco have been destroyed. One was of John Donne and this one was of Mary Magdalene. I saw her every day when I spend three weeks living at Grace Cathedral last year.…

  • Free at Last

    Above all, we want equal political rights, because without them our disabilities will be permanent. I know this sounds revolutionary to the whites in this country, because the majority of voters will be Africans. This makes the white man fear democracy. But this fear cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the only…

  • Wind News

    It feels a little bit like the Day of Doom here at St Mary’s this morning what with the weather. I’m going to proceed on the basis that it isn’t but here are some of the things I’ve been hearing via twitter and social media in the last half hour or so. Level crossing destroyed…

  • Dear Tom

    Dear Tom Like so many people I saw your video yesterday. Within minutes of you posting it, it was appearing in my twitter stream along with loads of messages supporting you. Then you started to appear on the news and the radio and no doubt your picture will be in the press this morning on…

  • The Organ & The Consultation

    This picture appeared on my facebook feed yesterday. It was posted by Peter Wakeford who was playing the organ yesterday morning. It shows what was going on during the service. Now, if you had been there yesterday you would have heard some sumptuous music and would have had no idea that anything was going wrong.…

  • A sermon for the City of Glasgow

    Here’s Cedric’s sermon for the City of Glasgow from this morning’s worship.

  • Prayer for those caught up in the Clutha Vaults tragedy

    We will be remembering those who have died and praying for all those caught up in the Clutha Vaults tragedy on Sunday 1 December 2013 at the 10.30 am service and indeed at all services on that day. The following prayer is offered for those in Glasgow and those from further afield who wish to…