• Candidates for the Sin Against the Holy Ghost

  03/12/2016

  People sometimes ask me (and no doubt other clergy) what the sin against the Holy Ghost actually is – the one which cannot be forgiven.

  Mark 3:28-29
  Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
  But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

  Now, there is a great deal of confusion about this, but I think I have narrowed down the possibilities.

  I’m pretty sure that it is one of the following:

  • Brown Shoes in the Sanctuary
  • The Sunday Before Lent/Sundays Before Advent/The Kingdom Season
  • The Invention of the Christingle Service
  • The Wrong Colour of Candles on the Advent Wreath
  • Seafood

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• Online reading

  04/09/2012

  Here’s some on-line reading. The Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church published an essay earlier this year on Marriage and Human Intimacy. This is available now online for the first time along with the other previous essays which they have written. There was a mini-brouhaha on twitter when one or two people actually read…

• New Provosting

  31/08/2012

  There’s a new provosting tonight in Oban and I’m carefully packing the Cope of Glory. There’s certainly a sense of purpose and excitement about the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles these days. [Trivia point – the definite article in the name of the diocese is capitalised for the Episcopal diocese of Argyll and The…

• Tuesday Update

  28/08/2012

  Tuesday: Useful comment article by Colette Douglas Home in today’s Herald, on the Roman Catholic Church’s position on #equalmarriage: http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/core-message-of-christianity-is-one-of-love-and-forbearance.18704767 Includes good key quotes from Sunday’s sermon and this: [Kelvin Holdsworth] welcomed gay Christians to the service and discovered, not surprisingly, that his congregation had increased. A senior Catholic source reportedly accused him of “incendiary…

• New article in Herald

  27/08/2012

  There’s a new article in the Herald newspaper today reporting on yesterday’s sermon and service at St Mary’s. It is prominently placed, with a nice big pic of me in the pulpit on the front page. I’d probably have preferred a different headline (they are never written by the reporters themselves) but the article is…