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  • Silence is Golden

    Forum on Silence from St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow on Vimeo.

    Somehow I managed to forget to publish this video on the blog but it is worth taking a look. It came from a forum conversation that I had with the Vice Provost, Cedric Blakey the other week.

    The point of this was to have a public chat about the way Cedric prays. One of the odd things about church is that individuals very rarely talk about their own personal spirituality and I was grateful to Cedric for being so open to having this discussion.

    We talk about this and also about:

    • whether God dictates answers to us
    • how breathing is integral to prayer
    • how to teach someone to pray
    • if you fall asleep whilst doing breathing exercises is that a sign of it working?
    • do single people need to spend time in silence?
    • how silence is golden.

    The video is a fairly short forum conversation – just 20 minutes.

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One response to “Sermon – Pigs Might Fly”

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    Michael Kalmuk

    On May 28, 2003 my partner Kelly Montfort and I were the first same-sex couple in the world Anglican communion to have a legally sanctioned same-sex blessing and literally two months later, two men in Ontario won their legal battle to be legally married. A few years have passed (10 to be exact) and now same-sex marriage is legal in Canada, many of the United States and various other countries. The pigs are flying and the world has not yet come to an end as the result of this scandalous news! Be true to your hearts and bless this change of attitude. It is all part of our never-ending quest to be tolerant of our differences and to try to love one another a little more. Our ancestors would probably not understood why this is so important. Our children’s children will wonder why there was so much anxiety over people loving one another.

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