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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.
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Mr Provost’s Finest Reindeer Receipt
Roughly chop a leek, couple of slices of bacon and as many cloves of garlic as you dare. Heat a frying pan to a sizzle and fling the leek, bacon and garlic in, closely followed by the reindeer steaks. After five minutes turn the steaks over and scoop the leek/pig/garlic into another pan. Heat this…
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Christmas Day Sermon 2012
Many of you will be aware that I recently have returned from a big sabbatical trip to churches in Canada and the United States. I was there to learn and reflect and grow and I did that by making contact with the most interesting folk I could find in church life on the other side…
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Midnight Mass Sermon 2012
I don’t know whether you are ready. I do know that this year, for me, the cumulative effects of coming back from sabbatical just recently and then succumbing to one of the nasty bugs that has been going around the city at the end of last week, has meant that my pre-Christmas rush this year…
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What’s on your church website right now?
Just a gentle reminder that people are looking for church services and Christmas events to go to right now. (Yes, right this minute. Today. Really.) It is worth asking what they will find if they go to your church website. One of the things that astonished me last Christmas was hearing people at St Mary’s…
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Carols at the Tron
The Presbytery of Glasgow are having a Carol Service in St George’s Tron on Sunday afternoon. Details below —————————– Please support this if you are able. From the Presbytery Clerk of Glasgow. I am pleased to say that a Presbytery Carol Service will be held in St George’s Tron Church of Scotland, Buchanan Street on…