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.
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It is a justice issue, isn’t it?
The question is this – is LGBT inclusion a justice issue or isn’t it? If we think it is a justice issue then we pray about it in church, right? Those two questions feel to me a little uncomfortable. We pray readily in churches up and down the land about justice issues – we pray…
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Sermon for Epiphany 4
If you look carefully at the video, you might spot the moment when I realised that I didn’t have all the pages of this sermon with me in the pulpit. Sermon preached on 1 February 2015 from Kelvin Holdsworth on Vimeo. Come out and shut up On Friday, we celebrated a commemoration in the Scottish…
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Scottish Episcopal Church News for February 2015
The following news can be reproduced on other websites and in church magazines. Sign up to have news like this delivered each month by email here: http://thurible.net/follow-blog/ Lent Appeals The Scottish Episcopal Church is having a co-ordinated Lent Appeal in each of its dioceses this year in aid of the Scottish Episcopal Institute. The Institute…
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Charles, King and Martyr
On this day, the Scottish Episcopal Church remembers Charles I – the king who was beheaded on this day in Whitehall in 1649. There’s always services organised in Scotland to remember Charles. The Scottish Episcopal Church was strongly aligned in the Jacobite cause in times gone by. I tend to remember this day not merely…
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