• St Augustine

  20/03/2014

  I saw this painting recently in London. It purports to be St Monica being handed her newly born son who was to become Augustine of Hippo.

  It seems to me that this painting explains much.

  

  chastity, gender, Monica, sexuality, St Augustine of Hippo

Previous Posts

• The Listening Day

  03/05/2008

  To Stirling today for the Scottish Episcopal Church’s day of listening. Quite a lot of the day was food for thought though it would not be appropriate to blog about the people or the stories involved. In the end I was generally glad that I was there though sometimes still frustrated by the process. It…

• Ascension

  02/05/2008

  Last night’s service was all that it should have been. Happy, good humoured and dusted with gold. The little organ mass was a delight. God did indeed go up with a great shout. Congregation double what it was last year. Alleluia.

• Oh Lord, Kum by yah

  01/05/2008

  I’ve spoken before about my frustration over a day which is planned this coming Saturday in Stirling for the Scottish Episcopal Church to do some listening in the arena of human sexuality. I got rather bad tempered about it at one stage – more so than felt good. I hope that one of the things…

• Ascension tomorrow

  30/04/2008

  Tomorrow is a glorious feast – it is Ascension Day. It is one of my favourites and celebrates one of those stories from the Bible (like the talking snake with legs in Genesis) that you instinctively know is true. Services at 11 am, 1.05 pm (in Glasgow University Chapel) and 7.30 pm. The evening one…