I’m firmly cone positive and this video goes some way to demonstrating why.
(For those out of town, see here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24907190)
3 responses to “Our own little Anglican Communion”
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Not to mention Aotearoa/New Zealand Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
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When I went to seminary in Seattle, WA, USA in the mid 1980s I took a summer term class at Vancouver School of Theology in the Diocese of New Westminster, Canada. While there I met Dean Peter’s current bishop, +Michael, who was himself dean of Christ Church Cathedral at that time. I still have his small book that he gave me, Rites For A New Age: Understanding the Book of Alternative Services. Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
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That +Michael would be the Mike Ingham with whom I was at theological college in Edinburgh 40 years ago, then. A breath of fresh air in the place back then, if memory serves.
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