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Is this what the approaching great feast is all about?
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Culture Catch Up
I’ve been on annual leave for the last week. It was my (rather late) post-Christmas break. Just after Christmas, I didn’t want to be away from either home or St Mary’s, probably due to having just come back from my three-month sabbatical. Hence, I put off taking time off until now. This year I threw…
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The Hope of my Roman Catholic Friends
I know so many Roman Catholics. I minister to a lot of Roman Catholics. A number of Roman Catholics minister to me, bringing me life and joy and love. Those relationships mean that I live with their hope. The news that the pope was going to retire brought that hope out into the open. It…
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St Andrews Debates
Great night last night in Lower Parliament Hall in St Andrews. I’d been invited to join a panel debate (a bit like Question Time) on LGBT issues at the invitation of the Debating Society and the LGBT Society of St Andrews University. I like going back to St Andrews, which was where I read theology…
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Review: Werther – Scottish Opera
This review appeared first at Opera Britannia The start of Scottish Opera’s new production of Massenet’s Werther is deceptive. As the curtain goes up we have a pleasant enough scene. A wooden structure is present with what look like rickety stairs. Snow soon starts to fall at the rear of the stage – snow that…
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Government Consultation response from LGBT Group
The LGBT Group at St Mary’s met on 18 February to prepare its response to the current Scottish Government consultation on the bill that it is proposing to bring in on allowing changes to marriage law in Scotland including allowing same-sex couples to be able to be marriage. In case anyone is interested, here is…
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Sermon preached for Lent 1, 2013
Here’s the video. And here is the text: One of my favourite stories about St Mary’s is one that I’ve heard several versions of. It concerns one of my predecessors as Provost here. He had been here for a couple of months and thought that things were going OK. And then suddenly a letter appeared…
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So, let me get this right…
Let me be sure I’ve understood this. From sometime next year or the year after, a gay couple will be able to get a Civil Partnership, then come to a Scottish Episcopal Church for a blessing from a Scottish Episcopal priest, make promises to one another, exchange rings, have them blessed, sing hymns and have…
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Cracked Love
I get the feeling that this love heart, spotted in a local baker’s window conveys certain truths that it was not intended to convey.
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All may, none must, some should.
The title of this post indicates the teaching that many Anglicans/Episcopalians would give to people when asked what Anglican teaching about the sacrament of confession is. It isn’t defined anywhere I don’t think though the practise of the church and canon law back it up. Ash Wednesday seems to me to be an appropriate day…