• Here’s another nativity

  30/12/2012

  

  crib, nativity, Washington National Cathedral

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• Psephology

  01/10/2004

  Do not read if you are of a nervous political disposition.So, Jody Dunn made it a near run thing in Hartlepool last night. She achieved a swing of 18%, which is very impressive.In Stirling, it would take a swing of about 16 % (Lab to Lib Dem) for a Liberal Democrat to take the seat. If…

• Ordinations

  28/09/2004

  Several people I know have been ordained this week. Inevitably, it makes me think about my own ordinations, first to the diaconate and then to the priesthood. Tomorrow I’m going to Glasgow to a first Eucharist. No doubt I’ll be thinking of my own first mass. It was outside in the open air, in the…

• Spiders

  28/09/2004

  Wallace, the largest spider in Caledonia seems to have come to the Rectory to make himself at home in my living room. Presumably he was encouraged in this by Bruce, the second largest spider in Caledonia, who has, for some time, been residing in the bathroom. I’ve told Tilly that spiders are her business and…

• Sermon – 26 September 2004

  26/09/2004

  I did some work once, with someone who had a PhD in Hell. This always impressed me. Well, to be strictly accurate, I think that it was all about the effect that different forms of belief in hell make to the way Christian people go about caring for one another. And very interesting that idea…