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  • 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…

  • A Kind of Writing

    Gosh, Stan Barstow has died. I must have read most of his novels at one time or another but it is quite a long time since I did so. He was one of the old boys of one of the schools I went to. He was soemtimes one of the features at Prize Days, along…

  • Head on over to Beth’s Blog

    I think it is time to give Beth a shout out and encourage you all to head over to her blog The Road Less Travelled. Beth is training to be a doctor and is very often found around about St Mary’s but at the moment she is in Tanzania trying not to get eaten by…

  • Mary Magdelene – more

    I don’t often link to sermons that are preached outside St Mary’s, but couldn’t resist linking to this sermon from the Very Rev June Osborne which was preached last week on the Feast of St Mary Magdalene. It is a great sermon dealing with some of the Mary Magdelene issues that we were thinking about…