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Not sure who is in charge
Can someone work out who is in charge?
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Francistide at St Mary’s
Today is St Francis’s Day – love and blessings to all Franciscans out there and a special thanksgiving for the ministry of the new Pope. Last year I was in St Francis’s own city – not Assisi, but San Francisco and was blessing animals on the labyrinth of Grace Cathedral with Gene Robinson. (No, really,…
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Sermon for Michaelmas
Once upon a time, in a land not far away, there was a seminary where lucky young men and lucky young women came to train for the priesthood and open their lives to all that God was hoping for them. It was a place that I knew but did not study in myself but a place that some…
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I.D.
Thinking Anglicans has the story that all of us in the Scottish Episcopal Church should be thinking about at the moment. One of the most important stories that concerns Episcopalians in Scotland for quite a while. It is to do with the recent release of figures from the last census – the one that was…
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Taint
The Church of England has a problem. Well, the Church of England has many problems, but the one that it is waking up to at the moment is that women bishops are getting closer and closer to it and it hasn’t quite worked out what to do. Why does it have to do anything? Ah,…
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Reflections
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Knowing Me, Knowing You – Monday evening
I’m doing another Knowing Me, Knowing You evening on Monday evening and there’s still a couple of places free. (I limit this one to 20 people in order to keep the conversation flowing). Here’s the official notice: ———— Knowing Me, Knowing You – Monday 23 September 2013 at 7.30 pm in the Synod Hall. An…
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New priest in Largs
Lovely to be with Bishop Gregor for the priesting of James Currall in Largs.
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Rainbow Laces
Congratulations to Stonewall for their Rainbow Laces campaign – trying to persuade the various football organisations to make a gesture to indicate that they are supportive of their gay players. For such organisations, it is a gesture that won’t cost them much. I’m pretty sure that for gay players themselves, all closeted at the moment,…
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10 Things Gay People Still Need
Once the law changes and we have access to marriage, is that it? Will equality have been achieved? Will we suddenly have become full citizens? Will the job be done? Here’s my run down of what we still need. We need it to be impossible for the authorities to accept a plea less than murder…