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  • The Kalendar for 2022 – 2023 is available free!

    For years now, I’ve produced a Kalendar for the Scottish Episcopal Church with all the bible readings set out for the year.

    In the past I’ve sold it for around £4. For a range of reasons, I’m not going to be selling it this year but am releasing it online so that anyone can download it and print it out for themselves.

    It is available right here: Kalendar 2023

    Anyone who would like to make a donation because they enjoy the Kalendar so much and want to encourage me to keep doing it is welcome to do so via paypal.

     

     

9 responses to “New statement on Civil Partnerships from the Scottish College of Bishops”

  1. Beth Routledge Avatar
    Beth Routledge

    No occasion at which the Cope of Glory — which has attended blessings in the very furthest flung parts of Diocese — has been deployed can ever be thought truly informal.

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  2. Stephen Peters Avatar
    Stephen Peters

    I think I’d like to become a Scottish Episcopalian in exile. (And after all, France and Scotland do have a long historic connection….)

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  3. PamB Avatar
    PamB

    I have long maintained that we should start by annexing the Diocese of Carlisle.

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  4. Kelvin Avatar
    Kelvin

    One of the things that surprises me a little is that I’m unaware of people from England registering a Civil Partnership and then popping up here for a blessing. Straight people regularly come to Scotland to get hitched.

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    1. Anne Jones Avatar
      Anne Jones

      Perhaps they don’t know that it’s a possibility.

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  5. Kelvin Avatar
    Kelvin

    Parts of this diocese are further south than the cathedrals in Carlisle, Newcastle and I think, even Durham.

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  6. Zebadee Avatar
    Zebadee

    Could there not be a new border say from the Humber to the Mersey? Did not the old Kingdom of Strathclyde stretch down to Preston on the west side of Englandshire?

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    1. Beth Routledge Avatar
      Beth Routledge

      I’m all for extending the border down to about Cornwall. No need to do things by half measures.

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  7. Stephen C Avatar
    Stephen C

    I reckon this is an advance…but it is not straightforward!

    I long for the day when we will affirm that there will be no difference between the way we treat gay and straight people
    And that Bishops might feel free to go to what ever functions they like!
    I am 61, and I have decided “Bugger it!” (I am an Australian after all) I am going to do what I think is right. There must be some privileges in getting old. If the Bishop (of Adelaide) wants to take me to the High Court and contest my tenure for contesting his discriminatory and arbitrator rules then so be it, let him do so!

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