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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…
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It isn’t over yet
Oh no, Easter is far from over. The 50 days of unremitting joy are simply unremitting. Here’s another Regina Coeli to keep us skipping along: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKwACJQUgk Incidently, this one reminds me of my interview for the job at St Mary’s, after which, one of those interviewing me confessed that she had been swayed by the…
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She makes me lie down in green meadows
Lots of us will have been singing versions of Psalm 23 today – it is the set psalm for the the day, paired with the gospel reading about the Good Shepherd. After church this morning at the God Factor, I was in the hot seat and being quizzed by the participants about what I thought…
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King Lear – Citizens Theatre
Approximately half-way through the first act of Dominic Hill’s King Lear I realised why the evening was beginning to feel so disappointing. Letting go for a moment of the incoherent business on stage, my mind was somehow reminded of the last time I felt the same way in the theatre. All of a sudden, it…
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A web template for the Scottish Episcopal Church
One of the things that I’ve been working on recently is the idea of a web template for the Scottish Episcopal Church. The idea is to come up with a very simple WordPress theme that can be used in different situations across the church, particularly for churches and other bodies which are formally part of…
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Sermon preached on 22 April 2012
Here’s what I said on Sunday:
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Military Reunion Videos
One of the following two videos strikes me as being dangerously near to being a little too slick and unctuous for its own good. The other, meanwhile, is the real deal. Guess which… http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iD3cgDRsDck (Tip of the Biretta to Daniel Williams for pointing me towards the second)
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Gay Booklist
Several people have recently asked me for suggestions for some affirming reading material for lesbian and gay Christians and more generally for anyone wanting to find material to help them think around the topic. I published a list a couple of years ago. Here’s the link: http://thurible.net/20080429/lgbt-booklist/ There’s more stuff coming out (so to speak)…