Every day, the straight heterosexist hegemony manages to find new ways to assert its dominance over all who do not share its presumptions.
Today, hangers on the back of an hotel room door.
Every day something different.
Happy Easter, Kelvin!
Hail glittering Light bedecks the dawn! Indeed.
CHRIST IS RISEN, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA!
Greetings from Aotearoa/New Zealand
Forgive my denseness, or ignorance, Kelvin – but what are the white bits?! Feathers? Rose petals? No, you could never throw them that high. Have you opened a magnum of superbubbly? – Whatever they are / it is, it looks lovely!
Christ is risen from the dead: By his death he conquered death, and to those in the grave he gave life! [Easter troparion]
Silver stars fired from a glitter cannon. (No, really!) During the singing of Hail to thee O Queen of Heaven.
Oh, I see: they are a miraculous indoor Hail-storm. 😎
Your sexton now hates you. 😜
Quite an exhilarating Choral Evensong last night. Three ribbons to give out to young choristers to indicate their achievements and then straight into an exciting musical service. The psalm was 148, which is one of my favourites, particularly in the setting that they sing here. In common with very many choral churches, we usually sing…
I’ve written (and lots of people have commented) on previous mission and ministry plans, policies and plots – here and here. We now have a new Provincial Whole Church Mission and Ministry Policy to absorb. It is fourteen pages long and has some good things in it. Like lots of long documents, it also has…
Most people will be familiar with the details by now. A forty year old straight American male based in Edinburgh wrote a blog which purported to be written by a Syrian lesbian woman. And it took a lot of people in. It is an interesting story on a number of levels. There has been a…
Anne has posted about the all too palpable sense of low morale amongst the clergy which she notices at General Synod last week. She reports that she is working on a CMD handbook. I think that it might be worth trying to think about the things which contribute to lower morale. One thing which came…
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