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Should churches use e-mail? Or indeed blogging?
Yesterday’s post about the internet and what we can learn from the demise of HMV didn’t raise that many comments but it certainly did the rounds, being more shared on Facebook than anything that I’ve written in months. It was picked up as a conversation topic by the Anglican Church of Canada’s The Conversation too.…
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8 Things the Churches Could Learn From the collapse of HMV
I’m sad to see that the HMV music chain is in trouble. The sadness that I feel about it though has to be accompanied with a knowledge that I’ve looked elsewhere for my entertainment recently. At one time I would have gone there to buy things for others and things for myself around Christmas. This…
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Sermon preached for St Mungo – 13 January 2013
I have to confess that for most of my life I did not give St Mungo much of passing thought. I certainly encountered him when I was in primary school up the road in that I remember a wonderful Primary 5 teacher in Bearsden making us do a project on the great urban conurbation that…
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Sermon preached for the Epiphany 2013
Here’s the sermon I preached for the Epiphany. My day was made when a member of the congregation came up to me at the end beaming. He introduced himself to me as a member of the Iranian Community of Glasgow and said: “We, we Iranians were the first to worship the Baby Jesus!” And they…
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Here’s to you, Bishop Robinson
The Church of England is in full brouhaha mode today over gay bishops once again. Before saying anything about that, I think it is important to give a shout out to the Rt Rev Gene Robinson who is retiring today as Bishop of New Hampshire. It was obvious when he was elected and consecrated that…
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New Year Predictions 2013
1 – The UK will lose its triple A credit rating. 2 – The Scottish Episcopal Church will have poor statistical returns this year prompting very quiet wailing and gnashing of teeth except in Argyll. 3 – At least one Church of England bishop (and maybe a pair) will be outed. (Only time I’ve retained…
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Looking back at last year’s predictions
Time to have a look back at the predictions I made at New Year last year. The Diocese of Edinburgh will have a new bishop by this time next year. (There is currently an Episcopal vacancy). However, they will have been unable to select a bishop from the first list and will end up chosing…
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Here’s another nativity
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Tales of the City #9
The scene is Great Western Road, at 10 am – just after morning prayer. A street cleaner in a council jacket runs down the street hollaring at me after morning prayer Street Cleaner: “Oi, oi!” I turn wondering what I’ve done. Self: “Um, yes?” Street Clearner: “Was it youse that was in the paper? It…
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Pewter Nativity
Here’s one of those nativity sets that I was talking about in my Midnight Mass sermon the other night.