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Ditching the sermon – a dialogue for Holy Innocents

28/12/2014

This morning I decided to ditch the sermon in favour of a dialogue with Bishop Gregor.

It has been a difficult Christmas in Glasgow with a major tragedy in the centre of the city as people were doing their last minute Christmas shopping. Bishop Gregor was himself there in the square just after the incident involving the bin lorry. In this conversation he describes what he saw, what he was asked to do and how he responded.

Together we reflected on how Christians find God.

This happened in the context of the Sunday morning Sung Eucharist instead of a sermon. It seemed the right thing to move the Feast of the Holy Innocents back to this day, it having originally been scheduled to be celebrated here tomorrow morning.

As I said at the beginning of the service, Jesus wasn’t born into a fairy story, nor into a Christmas card – he was born into the real world and sometimes we need to think about what that really means.

Here’s the video:

Dialogue between Kelvin Holdsworth and Gregor Duncan in Glasgow on 28 December 2014 from Kelvin Holdsworth on Vimeo.

#GeorgeSquare, Bishop Gregor, Holy Innocents

11 responses to “Changing the mobile”

Tim

07/01/2011

Variously:

Google Sky;
Either Catch(.com) or Springpad (see springpadit.com – currently preferred);
Handcent (SMS);
FBReader or Aldiko (eBook readers);
Wikitude / Layar (augmented reality);
Connectbot (ssh client);
MyTracks (GPS tracking on steroids), Foursquare;
AppBak (save/restore lists of things installed);
Advanced Task Killer (kill processes).

Welcome aboard 🙂

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kelvin

07/01/2011

Thanks Tim. I found google sky already. Indeed, it was one of the things that persuaded me.

Now I can see the constellations in the city! Indeed, now I can see the constellations in my bedroom.

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Sarah

07/01/2011

SlideIT – easier way to enter text. Good fun, the predictive side of it can be a bit of a pest so do re-read what you’ve written, although there is the facility to go back to simple ABC input.
Enjoy the ‘phone!

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Kennedy

07/01/2011

Lifehacker is always a good source of info for these things.

http://lifehacker.com/5717356/set-up-and-get-to-know-your-new-android-phone

Kennedy

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agatha

07/01/2011

Nothing to do with phones but I do like the “Want a girlfriend” advertising in the sidebar!

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1. kelvin
  
  07/01/2011
  
  I’m glad you like whatever you are seeing, Agatha. The ads are served up by a remote server which focusses the ads on the viewer, including whatever you are looking at, where you are and I think also your browsing history.
  
  Whatever you are looking it is what google thinks should be aimed at you. I see no ads offering girlfriends myself.
  
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ryan

07/01/2011

I do hope I’m not the only one getting “Spy on your boyfriend” ads! 😉

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office manager

07/01/2011

Android? Data (trekkie pun intended) could be lost. See story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12138790 Good luck.

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Hermano David | Brother Dahâ€¢veed

07/01/2011

I see no ads, which beats the Scientology ads that I used to see!

I have nothing to ad because Padre has forbidden it.

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Hedge

10/01/2011

Snap! I got mine just before Christmas.

Seesmic (for Twitter)
Guardian Anywhere (downloads while you sleep and can be read while offline)
Kindle
Dropbox
Pocket Common Worship

I’m also addicted to Wordfeud, or Scrabble by any other name…

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ali

12/01/2011

tasker is brilliant. read about it @
http://mobile.dzone.com/news/android-app-spotlight-tasker

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