• Who we are

  26/10/2012

  Right, here is a little verbatim to get you thinking.

  The scene is a concert given by a famous jazz musician a few weeks ago in an American cathedral. I’ve been nudged to the front to sit with the bigwigs. As we sit waiting for the music, I hear this conversation going on somewhere behind me.

  Person 1: Wow, isn’t this space amazing. I never knew it was so beautiful.

  Person 2: I know, I’ve never been in here before either.

  Person 1: What is it anyway? What kind of church?

  Person 2: It is the Episcopals

  Person 1: Well, it is really special, the building and all. Which ones are the Episcopals again? Are they the ones that have divorce?

  Person 2: Yes, they do. And women priests. They’ve got one here!

  Person 1: Really? Wow! All this, and divorce and women priests. Maybe I should give them a try…

  Now, how does that exchange make you feel? Does it lift the soul or not?  Can you flesh out your feelings with some further thoughts?

  divorce, Episcopal, identity, pisky, USA

Previous Posts

• No sermon today

  13/06/2004

  No sermon today. This year was my last year of a four year term o­n the General Synod. It is the first when I have managed it all well – stayed in a hotel in Edinburgh instead of going backwards and forwards every day and have also arranged for someone else to preach today, so…

• General Synod

  12/06/2004

  I’m back from the General Synod in Edinburgh. I think that of the four years that I have been there, I probably enjoyed this one more than I have before. The business was not that heavy. Here are the headlines. We decided, in an over-emotional debate to loan money to a Retirement Home and authorised…

• Polling Day

  10/06/2004

  Voted!

• St Columba's Day

  09/06/2004

  St Kelvin’s Day too. I celebrated my sixth anniversary as a priest today.