• Here comes the sun

  21/12/2017

  The solstice is past. Rejoice.

  winter solstice

Previous Posts

• It’s Time

  23/06/2013

  Just watch this video – there’s people and places that you may well recognise. I’m very pleased to be one of the faces in the video above, which has been produced by the Equality Network to galvanise the last months of the campaign for equal marriage in Scotland. Political leaders, celebrities, thinkers and so-called ordinary…

• Exodus or Exodon’t

  20/06/2013

  There was a possibly extraordinary shift in the ecclesiastical tectonic plates overnight. Exodus International is going out of business and its leader has apologised for the harm it has done. Exodus International was one of the leading groups which claimed that it was possible to re-orientate gay people – ie turn them straight. It is,…

• Guides and God

  19/06/2013

  So, am I all up in arms about Girl Guides dropping their promise to love [their] God[s]? No, I don’t think so. I suspect God can take it. This is what the Girl Guides used to promise: I Promise that I will do my best; To love my God, To serve my Queen and my…

• Watching the House of Lords

  18/06/2013

  The internet is a wonderful thing and means you can watch all kinds of things you would never have been able to see in the past. Yesterday, I found myself watching the House of Lords discuss whether or not I was fully human. At least, that’s what it felt like to me. I’m a great…