Today has been designated as National Coming Out Day.
There’s been so much going on recently in the media and social media about gay bishops in the Church of England.
This seems to me to say it in a more elegant way than all the letters to the press, editorials, blog posts and twitter posts by the score.
Delighted to learn that so much progress has been made at our Alma Mater (I graduated MA in 1971). Gaudeamus igitur, indeed.
There were signs of change in 1999 when I departed from St Marys. Delighted that the progress has gathered pace over the years and is now so much improved.
When I was there (I left in 75), it was understood that nobody in Gaysoc spoke about who else they had seen at a meeting – it was still not safe to be ‘out’ in public. That was at a liberal-minded University. Of course there were people who were out, some notably gifted. Indeed, thank God for it.
The list of candidates for the election of a new Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway has now been published. They are: The Ven Dr John Applegate The Very Rev Canon Dr Gregor Duncan The Rev Canon Dr Alison Peden
Just to say that if you are looking for me in connection with anything to do with St Mary’s, I’m away from work until next Friday, 11 December 2009. I’m not sure whether I’ll be blogging. We’ll see.
There was a lot of radio to catch up on last night. Firstly, there was St Ninian’s Cathedral in Perth doing the big live broadcast on Radio 4 at 0810. It was great to hear familiar & unfamiliar voices on the radio and imagine the place all miked up. (St Ninian’s is where I did…
I forgot to set the camera up this morning (still needing a couple of people to be the camera team, I think). So, no video from this morning. Here is the text though: The tradition in churches like this one is to try to make something special of Advent. Whilst the rest of the world…
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