I’m aware that this cartoon was drawn for another situation. However, this is kind of how it feels to be gay in the Scottish Episcopal Church at the moment. My guess is that other people feel it too.
We need to pray for a different style of leadership.
Urgently.
My thanks to Dave Walker for making this and other great cartoons available to post occasionally on blogs and to Andrew Swift who drew my attention to it.
Synod hears presentation from Jubilee Scotland. Duncan McCosh is now willing to take questions.
George Taggert – from St Oswald’s King’s Park. Wants to speak at his last synod to give hope. Says that his whole congregation has 70 000 in an account doing nothing. In the spirit of the Jubilee gave £7000 from that legacy to a mission giving food to those who could not afford to buy food. They want to see their numbers grow but/and think their jubilee return of money to the poor is a good thing. Would love to think that the sense of Jubilee carries on.
Synod thanks Duncan McCosh for his convenership from which he now retires.
Coming back to St Mary’s was rather a shock yesterday. In the time that I had been away at General Synod every piece of equipment known to every broadcast engineer in Scotland appeared to have been put in the Cathedral. This is the weekend that a number of pieces of music are being recorded in…
Thanks are offered by the Primus for the Synod Eucharist and worship Retiring Conveners are thanked Also chairs for sessions and those who have debriefed them Joe Morrow is thanked for being assessor to the Primus Kennedy Fraser is thanked for the IT Also Rob Warrent and yours truly for updates online Cursillo for tea…
Synod debates the 3% quota figure for this year. The way of calculating the quota distribution has been questioned from the floor by Catherine Meikle. Prof Peatie says it is a complex thing to do. She also tells us how work she believes has been done to save money. The motion is to put set…
Synod enthusiastically gives permission to the members of the youth network to speak.
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