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Tented Villages
Rather hoping that I don’t find the Cathedral grounds filled up by a tented village of people protesting about something when I go back to work. I’m trying not to comment too directly upon the internal workings of another cathedral. However, the PR disaster that is St Paul’s does make me want to assert this……
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The Contented Life – Spirituality and the Gift of Years by Robert Atwell
The Scottish Episcopal Church has been well blessed in recent years by a close association with the Faith in Older People Project (www.faithinolderpeople.org.uk) which works to celebrate the lives of older people and develop best practise in understanding and meeting the spiritual needs of older people and their families. It seems, upon reading this book,…
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The Pink List
Am absolutely delighted to have been included in the Independent on Sunday’s Pink List of the LGBT great and the good. It is quite a list. Pity there isn’t a party to get everyone on it together. It would be good to see more clerics on the list (there are none except Lionel Blue, I…
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Shh! Do not disturb
Just to say that I’m away from work on annual leave for a week or so. I’m not going far, but I’m not going to St Mary’s. The Vice Provost, Cedric Blakey is in charge whilst I’m not around. Usual rules apply to this blog whilst I am resting heart and mind and soul. Comment…
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
People of Earth. Now that you have elected me to the honoured position of Benevolent Dictator for Life, there are several rules which I must make clear. Exclamation marks shall be known forever as exclamation marks and not exclamation points. (Computer scientists are except from the first part of this regulation and may continue to…
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St Luke’s Day
Today is St Luke’s day – a good day for choosing a husband, apparently. I’ve done the research on this. If no husband appears during the day and you are wondering who it will be, then you need to get your act together before nightfall. You need to gather powder of dried marigold flowers, marjoram,…
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What am I listening to?
Oh, thank you for asking? It has been a while. Spotify didn’t manage to convince me to subscribe, so this is a season of Back to the iPod and even occassionally Back to the CD. However, the CDs do seem a bulky and rather old fashioned element in the Salon at Praepostorial Towers. There has…
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All Souls
A reminder that the sheets are available in church for adding the names of those who have died to be remembered in prayer on All Souls Day on 2 November 2011. This year the choir are singing the Fauré Requiem I’ve received this morning an invitation to go to a Regional Council Meeting that night…
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Same-sex marriage and the state
I’ve been very heartened by the many responses to my sermon on Sunday. It was reported on at length in The Times, which used it as its top Scottish story on Monday and it was used in the Herald and all over the gay press too. Whatever anyone might think about what I said, it…
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A personal message from Alex Salmond