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The imagined community of the Anglican Communion
There is an astonishingly clear essay on the Anglican Communion which has just appeared on a US website. It is well worth reading in full. I think that increasingly, there are good people who are starting to question the presumed goodness of what is at the heart of the dreadful mess of international Anglicanism. About…
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Half Marathon this weekend
I believe that there is a half marathon being run in Glasgow tomorrow, the route of which is mostly around a place that is called “The South Side”. If you do come from that place and are planning to come to St Mary’s tomorrow, you might like to allow a little extra time to get…
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Marriage Equality Video from Ireland
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ULdaSrYGLQ&feature=player_profilepage]
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Sermon on Song of Songs – Preached 30 August 2009
I want to begin this morning with a little story from a previous phase of my ministry. People sometimes ask me what I did before becoming a priest – I long to be able to say something exotic or exciting or even slightly noble. Something where it sounds as though you gave up a lot…
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Ordination in Edinburgh
Off to Edinburgh today for the ordination to the priesthood of Fr Simon Tibbs in Old St Paul’s. It was suitably glorious. People who come from Glasgow as always greeted with amazement at events in Edinburgh. (Most people from Edinburgh have never learnt that the trains do actually run in both directions and that crossing…
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What have I been reading?
Oh, thank you for asking. The Orthodox Heretic and other impossible tales by Peter Rollins. This is lovely – a book of parables to expand the mind. The Road Well Travelled – a simple little book about Christian Spirituality by David Winter which is excellent. I’ve been browsing through Sing a New Song, Timothy Radcliffe’s…
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Sermon – Quality of Mercy
Here is this morning's sermon about the release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie Bombing. Much of what I said is in the text below. As I am preaching this morning, I want to take you on a journey. Not a journey from one place to another. Not a journey particularly from one idea…
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Excellent Episcopal Profile
There is an excellent profile of our ex-Primus in the press this week. Don’t miss it. +Richard still has the capacity for saying things that make people think abut God, and I admire his capacity to say them so clearly. I heard him preach at a memorial service last week. He hasn’t lost that capacity…
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The Quality of Mercy
The compassionate release of the Lockerbie bomber is the story that everyone is talking about right now. I’ve been interested to listen to members of my own congregation discussing it. I’ve been aware of at least four responses within the congregation which have all been held with conviction. They are mutually contradictory That the “bomber”…
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