I’m aware that this cartoon was drawn for another situation. However, this is kind of how it feels to be gay in the Scottish Episcopal Church at the moment. My guess is that other people feel it too.
We need to pray for a different style of leadership.
Urgently.
My thanks to Dave Walker for making this and other great cartoons available to post occasionally on blogs and to Andrew Swift who drew my attention to it.
Church starts (IMHO) when one can admire the qualities of those with whom one disagrees. But it is a trick balancing act (thinking of yesterday’s news) to admire and not capitulate. To reach across and keep one’s footing. To be rejected and to stay open,and yet not internalise the objections.
We had a great day on Sunday at St Mary’s. The Feast of St James in the morning was a lovely interlude into the usual summer Sunday calendar and then a special Choral Evensong sung by the Choir of St Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut. They had been in Lincoln for a week singing…
I just want to applaud Bishop David asking us what we think he should say to the Pope later this year. That’s such a good use of a Primus’s blog. I hope he gets plenty of comments.
Here is a quick video of the Botafumeiro swinging in Compostella last year as promised in the sermon this morning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Qiv3F3bv4&feature=related Commentary is a bit intrusive. Watch out for the brilliant catch and swirl movement by the chief tiraboleiro as it is brought to rest at the end. There is a simulation of how it…
For the Feast of St Hamish.
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