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Synod – clergy personel issues
The question of clergy employment comes up yet again. We are told once again that clergy are not employed, even though there have been recent circumstances where clergy have been treated as though they are employed in the law. A question is asked as to whether or not we need to deal with every employment…
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Synod Eucharist
Just to report the success of yesterday’s great innovation – we had the main Synod Eucharist in the place where we meet rather than in the Cathedral Church of St Mary (Edinburgh) just down the road. Yesterday’s service was splendid. James Macmillan’s lovely mass setting rang around the synod hall. The bishops huddled in splendour around…
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Online at Synod
Having made rather a fuss about the lack of internet access in the General Synod Hall (aka Palmerston Place Chuch), I was delighted to find that wifi access had been enabled this year. However, it soon transpired that my own computer was the only one in the room which refused to connect to the wifi…
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Normal Service is Resumed
I’m back from my retreat. I’ve had a great time away. I was on a clergy retreat. The topic was priesthood. The venue was Spain. The sun shone and I was with a great group of people. I’ll not be blogging further about the retreat because it was, well, it was a retreat. However, when…
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Sermon – 1 June 2008
[audio:Sermon 1 June 2008.mp3] For audio, click the icon above. Text below. Usual disclaimers. I didn’t say what the text says. Here it is: I don’t preach on St Paul very often, but this seems to me to be important this week, so I am going to preach on the second of our readings, from…
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Pre-Synod Meeting
Crossed to the dark south side of the city last night for our pre-synod meeting. This is where General Synod members from the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway go through the synod agenda and mull it over before actually going to synod to do the business in a fortnight. This year promises to be quite…
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Differences in Demolitions
I was faced with a choice tonight. To the opera or to the Baths Club AGM. (It is that old monastery/deerpark conundrum from Mr Søren Churchyard all over again, isn’t it?). This time I chose pleasure over duty and went to the opera to see Nigel Osborne’s, Differences in Demolitions. There was some tremendous singing…
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Shared Sleeper
I’m horrified to hear that there is a proposal to end the shared sleeper service from Scotland to London. This is a terrible thing. The shared sleeper is a cheap way to get home after a show in London. It is far greener to have a carriage occupied by 24 slumbering souls than 12. And…
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