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• Review: Orfeo ed Euridice, Scottish Opera

  23/02/2015

  This review originally appeared for Opera Britannia. Scottish Opera have managed to produce another underwhelming show that, though visually arresting, leaves one with more questions than answers. There are things to praise about Ashley Page’s directorial debut for Scottish Opera: his ballet background clearly has given him an intense sense of theatrical spectacle that was…

• Unlikely alliances – sermon preached as farewell to Fr Chucks

  15/02/2015

  Here’s what I had to say to my Nigerian colleague Chucks who is moving away from St Mary’s to go and work down south. God be with you, Chucks – we are looking to you to sort out the Church of England. Sermon preached by Kelvin Holdsworth on 15 February 2015 from Kelvin Holdsworth on…

• 10 Tips on How to Date a Priest

  13/02/2015

  Valentine’s Day being upon us and my being an expert witness in the matter, I feel it incumbent upon me to share my best wisdom in the small matter of how to date a priest. Firstly, accept that clergy are people, just like everyone else. I’ve met people who believed that when they were ordained,…

• It is a justice issue, isn’t it?

  11/02/2015

  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…