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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…
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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…
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John Stott RIP
The Rev John Stott has died. To many reading this, that may not mean much, but John Stott was had a phenomenal influence on the church and it would be wrong not to mark his passing. Stott was, for almost all of his ministry, connected with All Souls, Langham Place in London. He was first…
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What are you reading?
Oh, thank you for asking. It has been a while. Here’s a quick list of what is part read and scattered about. A God of One’s Own – Ulrich Beck – for the modern world to survive, religions need to civilise themselves by encouraging people to chose a God of their own. File under philosophy…
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Congratulations
Congratulations to all still celebrating the arrival of marriage equality in New York. There seems to me to be an unsatisfactory situation in the Episcopal church dioceses over there at the moment with different bishops recommending very different things. These range from saying that clergy in their diocese cannot conduct such marriages to saying that…
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In the press
There’s a good report in the Herald on same-sex couples being allowed to marry for the first time in New York state. There’s a brief comment on the situation in Scotland, where gay couples can enter into a Civil Partnership and then if they wish have a blessing. Part of the report is a bit…
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Dealing with Sundays like this
This was one of those weekends when the sound of preachers ripping up their previously prepared sermons could be heard across the land. It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes you just can’t get into the pulpit with what you have previously prepared, for the world has moved on. Everything has changed and something needs to…
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St Strumpet?
The image above is one of our representations of Mary Magdalene whose feast falls today. It comes from Gwyneth Leech’s murals in St Mary’s. We turned towards this image this morning whilst reading the gospel of the day. It is a noli me tangere image – do not touch me yet, a recollection of her…
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Busy, Opinionated and Gobby
Am spending time today gathering material and writing stuff for inspires, the printed magazine of the Scottish Episcopal Church. I’m the editor of the mag but for complicated reasons not to be gone in to here, I’m being a more hands-on editor this month than I have been hitherto and will be commissioning articles for…