What is in Kelvin's Head?

  • Greetings at Eid

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    Over the last few days there has been a mood of expectation around on Great Western Road where I live and work. Now the feast that so many have been waiting for has come. Today the Muslims in Glasgow are celebrating Eid.

    I’m looking forward to celebrating with the leaders of one of the Muslim communities in Glasgow at a special meal.

    This year the celebrations for Eid fall on the same weekend as the ancient Glasgow Fair, a feast which had its origins within the Christian community of Glasgow. At this time, let Glasgow flourish and may all its citizens celebrate. On behalf of the Christian community I lead, I pray a blessing upon the Muslims of my neighbourhood in Great Western Road, and upon of this city and to the Muslim peoples of the wider world.

    Eid Mubarak.

6 responses to “Michael Perham and Gracious Restraint”

  1. Rosemary Hannah Avatar
    Rosemary Hannah

    I think the married bishops ought to be asked to repent of having married in the first place.

    I think what the statement by +Gloucester fails to take on board is that it is not just about sex. It is the love and joy people have in each other. It is saying ‘have you met my husband?’ Until people get that, we will make no progress.

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  2. Jaye Richards-Hill Avatar
    Jaye Richards-Hill

    I’d like to gear him call for a bit of gracious restraint in Uganda and Nigeris, where the Anglican church could perhaps do a little more to wind down the appalling homophobic violence taking place, due in no small part to their inflammatory conduct and support of really bad law…

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  3. Susan Sheppard Hedges Avatar
    Susan Sheppard Hedges

    Yes, Jaye…

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  4. Bro David Avatar
    Bro David

    Yes, it is always we who are called upon to stand in the “crucified place.”

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  5. Tom D'Evelyn Avatar
    Tom D’Evelyn

    Well done! It should also be pointed out that the rhetorical form of this plea is sure to put people off, expressing the purblind self-hypnotic self-mediation of a closed mind. You wouldn’t buy a used car from this chap. I speak as an unchurched American deeply impressed by Kelvin’s intelligence as expressed on this blog, which I share with my son who is on the ordination path in a Bristol. He loves it too.

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  6. Fr Steve Avatar
    Fr Steve

    Well said, as always.

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