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What was I reading on holiday?
Well, I’m just back from two week’s holiday and back to the soulface today. Have you missed me? I’ve spent two lovely weeks in the sun, sitting on a terrace in the South of France watching the view and reading. You want to know what I’ve been reading on holiday? Oh, thank you for asking.…
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Looking at the Covenant
Just a few weeks to go until the Scottish Episcopal Church’s General Synod. As usual I’m looking forward to it and trying to get my head around the things that we will be talking about. One of the big things on the agenda this year is a vote in principle on the Anglican Covenant. A…
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Tosca- Scottish Opera Review
Rating: This review appeared first at Opera Britannia Scottish Opera’s revival of Anthony Besch’s Tosca offers a rewarding evening, though not one without its problems. Vocally, this is a Tosca not to be missed. Unfortunately, most of the evening is marred by insensitive conducting and far too much noise from the pit. The production itself…
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She’s Still Singing
Oh, it isn’t over yet, you know. Our Lady is still singing for joy over the Easter Triumph yet. 50 days of unremitting joy were announced on Easter Day. Storms and hail and mid-May snow are not going to stop us. Here’s a wee video of the way in which we keep the Feast around…
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St Matthias
It is St Matthias’s day today. He isn’t someone whom we tend to make much of. We don’t preach much about him, nor associate him with anything much more than the manner in which he was chosen to be an apostle. Matthias was the one chosen by lot to replace Judas. Though he doesn’t have…
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The Colour Purple
It is the consecration of the next Bishop of Edinburgh today. Usually I try to go to these services but sadly today, I’m not able to go. So here’s a photograph of the colour purple for the Diocese of Edinburgh. God bless John Armes and all who will build the church with him.
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President Obama and Marriage
I’m pleased that President Obama has now come out and stated that he supports the right of same-sex couples to marry. I’m interested too that it has taken him so long to say so publicly and in the various things (his children’s views, his colleagues lives) that he cited as reasons for his position “evolving”…
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Lillies
I’m considering the lilies of the field. They neither toil nor spin.
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The results are now in
Perhaps you can indulge me for needing to post another political piece. After all, local elections were at one time the stuff of personal agony…. Well, the results of the local elections are now in. There were several surprises. Congratulations are certainly in order for the Labour party in Glasgow and also the Greens. Both…
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The Joy of Tax
I voted in yesterday’s local election. I’ll readily confess that it was less of a pleasure than it usually is as I was not particularly excited about the vote I cast. However, civic duty is civic duty and the fact that I can vote matters more than the actual people I voted for. I had…