• Sermon preached on 28 September – Who do you think you are?

  28/09/2014

  Who do you think you are?

  In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

  “Hello, can you help me, this is ICM and we are conducting a telephone poll in connection with the recent referendum would you be willing to answer some questions.”

  And I said yes – and the questions were mostly about whether or not I’d found it easy to vote in the referendum (I had) and about whether or not I had any concerns about widespread fraud having taken place (I had no concerns at all).

  When I said I had no concerns, she asked me why? Why did I have no concerns?

  Well, I know people who were there, I said – people from both sides who were at the counts and who saw what took place. And I was involved myself.

  It took quite a long time to answer all the questions but it went fairly smoothly until the end when she said, “Can I ask you some questions about who you are?” I agreed to this and readily gave away my age and all kinds of other information that one doesn’t normally dare ask someone in polite conversation.

  “And can I ask you what job you do?”

  “Yes, no problem, I’m a priest.”

  “Thank you sir – oh, I need to ask you what kind of priest. (more…)

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  05/10/2009

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• Here is a sermon I prepared earlier

  05/10/2009

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• Twenty Years On

  02/10/2009

  It is funny how anniversaries creep up on you. It is twenty years ago this week since I went to read theology at the University of St Andrews. I can remember Freshers’ Week very clearly all these years later. Inevitably, some of those whom I met in the first few days there, I have lost…

• The House of Bernarda Alba – Citz

  26/09/2009

  Above the stage in this play by the National Theatre of Scotland there floats a large, mirrored ceiling. In this update, the action has all been plucked from the Andalusian countryside of Lorca’s original and been thrust kicking and screaming into Glasgow’s East End underworld. How well does this 70 year old Spanish play hold…