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  • Dido and Aeneas & Bluebeard’s Castle – Oper Frankfurt

    This review should appear in due course on Opera Britannia. Dido and Aeneas & Bluebeard’s Castle – Oper Frankfurt, Edinburgh International Festival Festival Theatre – 25 August 2013 Rating: “Please note, ” said the notice on the way into the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, “this performance contains smoke, water-based haze, fog and nudity.” What they didn’t…

  • Congratulations

    Congratulations to Craig and Calum, two members of St Mary’s congregation whose Nuptial Mass I conducted yesterday afternoon. Very often, the struggle towards equality seems to some people to take on the air of a pitched battle with people shouting their positions over the heads of others. The truth is, it really is an unbottling…

  • The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Mexico Sermon

    The Short Version The Anglican Communion is in a mess The Archbishop of Canterbury is in Mexico and he has preached a sermon It isn’t really a very helpful sermon and is quite offensive The Long Version This week the Archbishop of Canterbury (I think we can stop calling him the new Archbishop of Canterbury…

  • What am I listening to?

    Oh, thank you for asking. Well, the days of listening to CDs seem to be long over, don’t they? I’ve not ditched all the CDs like Chris Pinnock has, but wonder how long I’ll go on with a cupboard full of little boxes. Firstly and most splendidly there’s the Gyndebourne summer online opera festival. Oh…

  • The Sloans Project – Opera Review

    Rating: This review also appears on Opera Britannia’s website. The Sloans Project is an exciting new opera that has been around for a couple of years but is revived for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. This performance was one of two being given in its original setting – the Glasgow public house from which its stories…

  • Bible Study – Turning Over a New Fig Leaf

    We had a good bible study last night at the LGBT group here at St Mary’s. I thought I’d post the basic questions here and see whether people wanted to have a go at answering them here too. First of all we read most of Genesis Chapter 2. (You can find the text at the…

  • Sermon – the Maker, Troublemaker, Peacemaker

    Here’s what I said on Sunday in the pulpit about that tricky gospel reading. Not peace, but a division Sometimes one reads the Gospel in church and everyone nods knowingly. You can tell that people think that what is being said is wise and good. When we tell the story of the Good Samaritan, perhaps.…

  • Our newest priest

    Great to be with Kate Reynolds as she was priested today in Old St Paul’s. Congratulations to her and to the congregation.

  • Friday Reading List

    Here are the most interesting things I’ve read this week. Kids can’t use computers – The plaintive cry of someone who can. due for revision – Kimberly Bohan riff off the ten commandments and asks what we should really be teaching people Rowan Williams wonders whether it could all have been different.

  • Let’s hear it for Our Lady. (And for J Paul Getty)

    Let’s hear it for our Lady on this the Feast of the Assumption. Here’s a gorgous pic of her being crowned in heaven. And, let’s hear it for the J Paul Getty museum which has just decided to make a very significant collection of images, including the one above, available under an Open Content Programme.…