One of the things which has taken a bit of time over the last couple of days has been reading the Windsor Report. This is the report o­n how the Anglican Communion is supposed to live together through its present difficulties.  My guess is that a lot of people will not bother reading hte whole…

I’m back home after a trip to Yorkshire. Stayed in the Dales and ate too much cheese.

Just in case anyone was wondering, I'm taking a blog rest.Back in a week.

I suppose, now that I think about it, that Jaques Derrida is one of the biggest influences on the way I preach. May his souls rest in peace.

The Conservative Party really are in trouble. I asked the cat what she had thought of the Tory conference. She has always been a Tory supporter and very dismissive of my campaigning. Flicking her tail into a pound sign, she announced that she had changed her allegiance. Furthermore, she indicated very clearly that she thinks…

One of the most difficult jobs to do well as a priest is choosing hymns. Just enough that is familiar to people to feel comfortable, just enough that is new to stop us getting caught in a rut. Music needs to be singable and the words need to make some kind of sense. We want…

I can never decide whether I like the autumn. I like it in theory, at a distance. The colours and the freshness of the air are lovely, but the dark nights drawing in. Oh, the dark nights.

It was Cole Porter day at my film festival yesterday. High Society in the afternoon and the new biopic De-lovely in the evening. Both showing on the big screen in Falkirk. The music for both was sublime, whatever the merits of the films themselves. I’m not sure that I entirely bought the idea that Cole…