Here are the most interesting things I’ve read this week.
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.
LP asked for a cat pic on Sunday evening. Thus, madam appears on the photoblog: http://photoblog.thurible.net/?p=193I told you she was trouble. The subtext to the picture is that I’m about to take her, first to the Vet and then to Cat Barlinnie. She was not impressed by either. Not even when the assistant at the…
Yesterday was the first day of choir term and it was great to have them back.Who would have guessed that I would get so much nourishment from Evensong? I certainly wouldn’t have done before coming here. No doubt it helps to be singing it with Scotland’s premier church choir but even during the summer when…
Tried this quiz got this result… You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and…
To Govan Corps of the Salvation Army last night for the installation of their new Chief Secretary, Lieut-Col Bill Cochrane. Apart from a single family funeral, it is I think, the first time that I’ve been back to Salvation Army since I left it at the age of 16 or so. Last night’s visit was…
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