12 responses to “How to be single at Christmas”
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[…] single or otherwise alone at this time of year can present its challenges. Kelvin has some very wise words to say on the […]
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It is not the prospect of spending Christmas alone that I find difficult or scary. It’s managing the family expectations that we have to be together at Christmas, because that’s what we do (as it was in the beginning and shall be for ever, Amen). The bad weather this year meant that there was a good reason for not travelling, so I was able to spend Christmas where I wanted to be. And lovely it was too.
Previous Posts
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Sermon – 14 March 2003 – Lent 3
Sometimes one opens the pages of scripture only to find written therein, questions and comments which seem to relate very precisely to the current conversation in the global village.This morning, as the world reflects on the sudden outbreak of terror and destruction in Madrid, the gospel falls open at a page when Jesus is speaking…
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10000 hits
When we’ve been there 10000 years, bright shining as the sun…. The 10000th page hit on this website occurred a couple of hours ago. I had no idea when starting this weblog in August that it would reach such a number. Indeed, I had no idea that I would continue it for long at all.…
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Bishop Watch
I see that Richard Holloway has railed against Mel Gibson's film. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=281832004 I've no intention of going to see the film myself and for that reason, am a little wary of condemning it outright. It seems to me to be rather ghoulish to go and see such violence on film. I don't believe that it…
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Last Sunday's Sermon
Last Sunday's sermon has attracted a lot of comment in a surprising place – the bulletin board of the Ship of Fools website. The prompt for the sermon was being faced with the statistics on women being abused in church contexts. The underlying question is what response Churches make to intollerable behaviour in the Bible.…
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