• St Augustine

  20/03/2014

  I saw this painting recently in London. It purports to be St Monica being handed her newly born son who was to become Augustine of Hippo.

  It seems to me that this painting explains much.

  

  chastity, gender, Monica, sexuality, St Augustine of Hippo

Previous Posts

• Oh Lord, Kum by yah

  01/05/2008

  I’ve spoken before about my frustration over a day which is planned this coming Saturday in Stirling for the Scottish Episcopal Church to do some listening in the arena of human sexuality. I got rather bad tempered about it at one stage – more so than felt good. I hope that one of the things…

• Ascension tomorrow

  30/04/2008

  Tomorrow is a glorious feast – it is Ascension Day. It is one of my favourites and celebrates one of those stories from the Bible (like the talking snake with legs in Genesis) that you instinctively know is true. Services at 11 am, 1.05 pm (in Glasgow University Chapel) and 7.30 pm. The evening one…

• LGBT Booklist

  29/04/2008

  I recently hosted an LGBT Group meeting at church on what books I might recommend to people looking for something to read about the church and the various sexuality issues that are around at the moment. I think that there was some surprise amongst those present as to how many books there were to talk…

• Christos Anesti! Alleluia!

  27/04/2008

  Christ is risen for our orthodox friends. The silliness of the churches having two different Easter days bothers me more as the years go by. We waste our time on other silly controversies when the date of Easter remains unresolved. There was a plan some years ago to unite the churches by those who currently…