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  • Are there any gay friendly Episcopal churches in Edinburgh?

    Someone said something to me earlier this week which quite shocked me. They said there was no Episcopal congregation in Edinburgh which was welcoming to LGBT people. By this, they did not mean that there was an absence of any Episcopal congregations with happy gay people in them. That is clearly not so. The question…

  • What people are searching for

    Here is the latest list of the things that people are searching for, which result in them alighting on this blog: Buying new swimming trunks – presumably ended up on this post Madonna knitting – will have resulted in this one Please don’t take him just because you can – will be referencing this one…

  • Attitudes

    Now, there has been some real news worth noting in the week that is passed. The new Scottish Social Attitudes survey has been published. It is a huge survey of what people in Scotland think about a number of different things. The value of this research is that they keep asking the same questions over…

  • The Rt Rev Christopher Senyonjo

    Here’s the sermon preached in St Mary’s today by the Rt Rev Christopher Senyonjo. It was lovely to welcome him to Glasgow – many thanks to the Festival of Spirituality and Peace for facilitating his visit. There was also an excellent Conversation session after the service where it was possible to go into much greater…

  • Sermon preached on 7 August 2011

    Here's the sermon I preached on 7 August 2011. Still lots of comment being made to me about it. We need to talk more about the idea of providence. I fall between two ideas – either that any notion of God's providence is disproven by events or that God's providence works only for the good.…

  • There’s something odd

    You know, I just realised that there’s something odd going on in the world. We’ve recently had major earthquake, terror attack and rioting in the streets. And no-one has been blaming the gays. There are many struggles still to engage in and many places where LGBT people have little dignity, no human rights and minimal…

  • The Prime Minister’s Speech I’d like to Hear

    Parliament is being recalled tomorrow to discuss the English Riots that have been unfolding in that last few days. Here is the speech I would like David Cameron to make. Mr Speaker. The streets of this country are in uproar and people live in fear for their lives and property. Parliament has been recalled because…

  • Social Media – for Good and for Ill

    There’s quite a lot of comment going on at the moment over the effect of social media on the riots in London. We’ve not caught up in our heads with how to build societies when individuals have instant cheap mobile fast communications. Such technology can be used for good or for ill. We cheered on…

  • The Lord was Not in the Earthquake

    Here’s the text of the sermon I preached on Sunday 7 August 2011. I’ll try to get the video up later in the week when I can – I’ve had loads of stuff to try to get from one format to another this last week or two – inspires print and e-mail, pics on the…

  • Running about in the Dust

    Yesterday in St Mary’s we marked an anniversary – it is 25 years since the Scottish Episcopal Church first ordained people as deacons who happened to be female. One of the first of those deacons was with us yesterday – The Rev Jeanette Jenkins was present at the 11 am service and preached for an…