What is in Kelvin's Head?

  • I nominate these guys

    baptismal candidates

    Can you change the world by pouring water over someone?

    Well, we had a go yesterday in St Mary’s with two lovely baptisms in a great service yesterday morning.

    In the course of the service, we were reminded of Moses being scooped from the water of the River Nile and going on to set a whole people free from slavery. Then we heard a bit of St Paul which reminded us that transformation of the heart was connected with accepting that we all have gifts that differ. (What a fabulous reading for a baptism). Then we had a reading from the gospels which told us that in trying to work out who Jesus was, Peter the apostle actually found himself named and commissioned for service.

    What will these children do in their lives?

    There is so much trouble in the world at the moment that it is important to be reminded of the hope and the joy that isn’t just part of what happens when new life comes into a family with the birth of a child but also the new life  and hope which is intrinsic to our faith.

    Yesterday morning was a little Easter for us at St Mary’s. And a packed church was buzzing with the ideas that new life, hope and love are real and for sharing.

    I don’t know who is going to sort the world out and allow the kingdom of love to be seen for real. But I nominate these guys, freshly baptized, and all like them who are entering the world anew. May they be a generation that brings faith, hope and love to bear on a world that needs to be baptised with every drop of goodness it can get.

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9 responses to “The Syrian Lesbian Blogger Story”

  1. Eddie Green Avatar
    Eddie Green

    You are real?!

    I am very tempted to produce a spoof blog post ‘outing’ various Christian bloggers. I suspect at least one of them actually is a Syrian lesbian …

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  2. Rosemary Hannah Avatar
    Rosemary Hannah

    Oddly enough I was talking to somebody last week who struggled to believe it. I kind-of basked in your reflected glory.

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  3. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    Amusingly, The Times claimed that the sapphic poetry was, in restrospect, something of a giveaway! I’ve never deliberately read a lot of lesbian poetry, but the dude’s attempts seemed plausible to me (in contrast to his using Scottishisms like “wee small hours”)

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  4. Blair Robertson Avatar
    Blair Robertson

    Kelvin! You’re an out gay priest …. you never said!

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    1. kelvin Avatar
      kelvin

      Ain’t no further out to go, Blair.

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  5. Beth Avatar
    Beth

    And yet the press insist on telling us, every time they write about you, that you have come out. As if it’s a shocking new development.

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    1. kelvin Avatar
      kelvin

      I know. It must be because nothing else much is happening in the world, Beth.

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  6. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    Michael Stipe went through a period of being outed by the UK press every two years or so for over a decade; you are, at least, in good company 😉

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