The LGBT Group at St Mary’s met on 18 February to prepare its response to the current Scottish Government consultation on the bill that it is proposing to bring in on allowing changes to marriage law in Scotland including allowing same-sex couples to be able to be marriage.
In case anyone is interested, here is the response that the group made:
St Mary’s LGBT group response to government consultation
Thank you for this excellent sermon.
Thanks for this sermon Kelvin. I now know more about spikenard than I did (which was nothing much!). And I also like the Gandhi reference.
Very thoughtful.. Love the Quote on the smell of justice.. Love etc. thank you!
According to my sources spikenard is a sharp smell, somewhere between mint and ginseng. Now you see, I had it more myrrh like, more heady. But I can see that mint and ginseng would be better at covering up rotting body smells.
Our associate priest (Bryan Owen) managed to get a spikenard candle for his sermon on Sunday
AND WHAT DID IT SMELL OF, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE?
As it’s the same family as Valerian, it may smell strongly of smelly feet – and (like Valerian) send cats into a state of frenzy…..
Time for my annual Blog Break. I’ll not be blogging for July, but will be back at the start of August.
[starts 0900] Devotions (such as they were) and thinking about last night’s bizarre dream. Check webfeeds. Meeting with electrician and lighting expert re bulbs blowing at great height. Answer messages and e-mails. Several international ones re current Anglican position on The Usual Topic and about who actually said what at the big ACC meeting. Visit…
No sermon this morning – I was baptising again instead.Who would have thought that so many in the congregation would take up the invitation to come to church and the Young Church Garden Party in Victorian Fancy dress?I did not participate in the dressing up, though could be found dancing around a Maypole later in…
Well, the Church Times did not publish the letter that I sent them this week. However I can forgive them much in exchange for the following: 1 – publishing a correction to last week’s erroneous claim that the Scottish Episcopal Church had accepted the Windsor Report at the General Synod 2 – the headline: “Methodists…
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