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Last night at St Paul’s Cathedral
Though I worked in the Diocese of London for a few years before beginning my formal ordination training, I’ve never considered myself a member of the Church of England. Thus, it is always interesting for me to go to worship down there and encounter their little ways. Last evening I was at holy mass in…
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Friendly and Welcoming Churches in Edinburgh
Time for a quick round-up of churches which welcome and affirm gay folk over in Edinburgh. I made a plea for information last week which was forthcoming, so it is only fair to list the results. Old St Paul’s has a statement on the page of its XYmonday group which says it is “inclusive group…
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Human Rights Petition
There is a growing and unfortunate clamour for a roll-back on human rights commitments. These included some unfortunate comments from the Prime Minister over the weekend to the effect that he thought that human rights legislation had gone too far. Personally I don’t think it has gone nearly far enough. One of the major goals…
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Gifts and Skills
One of the themes that I'm wanting to pick up on at St Mary's if that of Gifts and Skills. We're hoping to be running some kind of course or retreat or series of workshops in the autumn which focus on the idea of discerning your gifts and skills. The sermon this morning that Akma…
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Are there any gay friendly Episcopal churches in Edinburgh?
Someone said something to me earlier this week which quite shocked me. They said there was no Episcopal congregation in Edinburgh which was welcoming to LGBT people. By this, they did not mean that there was an absence of any Episcopal congregations with happy gay people in them. That is clearly not so. The question…
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What people are searching for
Here is the latest list of the things that people are searching for, which result in them alighting on this blog: Buying new swimming trunks – presumably ended up on this post Madonna knitting – will have resulted in this one Please don’t take him just because you can – will be referencing this one…
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Attitudes
Now, there has been some real news worth noting in the week that is passed. The new Scottish Social Attitudes survey has been published. It is a huge survey of what people in Scotland think about a number of different things. The value of this research is that they keep asking the same questions over…
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The Rt Rev Christopher Senyonjo
Here’s the sermon preached in St Mary’s today by the Rt Rev Christopher Senyonjo. It was lovely to welcome him to Glasgow – many thanks to the Festival of Spirituality and Peace for facilitating his visit. There was also an excellent Conversation session after the service where it was possible to go into much greater…
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