Just paid my car tax. This operation involved the following steps:Remove documents from "Car Tax File"Take them to Post Office with cheque bookPay TaxReturn Home with smug look on face and file documents and cheque book. I suppose that the smug look stems from the fact that I can remember oh so well the days when…

Not for the first time this month, I turn to the Church Times and find myself reading about myself. This time it is an article about blogging clerics by Simon Sarmiento who commits many Good Works at http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/I do regard blogging as a part of my work now. Amongst certain friends who had the same…

Welcome to the Blog Congregation, Fr David Campbell.

The ingenuity and creativity of people knows no bounds.I came upon a webpage today which details using Google maps, the pubs which cathedral choirs like to drink in. Excellent. 

To Perth this evening to spend an evening with those in the diocese who are making transitions into authorised ministries. Did two case studies – the one below and one about Civil Partnerships. Also drew them "A Course of Christian Ethics in Six Scruffy Cartoons".The first case study was this:"As a member of the ministry…

I’m going to spend some time tomorrow with some of the people moving into ministry in the Scottish Episcopal Church. They have a Ministry Reflections Course once a month or so.Tomorrow evening is called "Being a critical reflector".It has got me thinking about ethics again. Sometimes the internal differences that get exposed in the church…

Does anyone know why curling competitions are divided into men’s and women’s games?Perhaps there is an obvious answer, but I cannot work it out.Possible answers that I’ve considered so far include the following:Men might generally be able to throw the stones with more force.Perhaps men and women use different sized stones.One sex has the advantage…