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Stained Beauty?
Have I ever said out loud that generally speaking, I think stained glass is one of the more over-rated art forms….?
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A sermon for Y’All
Here is a sermon that I preached on Sunday. You can find the audio here. (This one is more fun to listen to than to read, I think). I have learned in the course of my travels that it sometimes takes people a few minutes to atune to the way I speak. I’ve learned that…
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The Pink List
I see that I’ve been named on the Pink List – the list of prominent LBGT people produced by the Independent on Sunday. Feel hugely honoured and humbled to be keeping company with such heros. Check them out: Pink List
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Not merely patronising
Bishop Victoria Matthews is not merely patronising, she is actually wrong. Wait, you want me to back up a bit? OK. The story so far: We’ve been considering the idea of an Anglican Covenant for years and this year the Scottish Episcopal Church decided to reject it and did so in a very clear synodical…
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Six Points for Preachers
I’m scheduled to attend a conference on preaching soon so inevitably I’m thinking about how preaching works and about how to extend my homiletic repertoire. Someone asked me a good question yesterday – “How did you improve as a preacher”. It is a good question because it is affirming and something that all preachers should…
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Is it a sin?
Is it a sin, I find myself asking rhetorically, for men and women to be treated differently by institutions? Is it a sin for women and men to have unequal access to power and privilege. My own view is that it is not merely wrong for gender to be a determining factor in what someone…
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Who we are
Right, here is a little verbatim to get you thinking. The scene is a concert given by a famous jazz musician a few weeks ago in an American cathedral. I’ve been nudged to the front to sit with the bigwigs. As we sit waiting for the music, I hear this conversation going on somewhere behind…
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Cathedral as Emergent Community
Cathedrals are doing quite well. Now, as with all generalisations and stereotypes, this is both sometimes true and sometimes not. However, it is something that quite a lot of people are talking about. The recent Grubb Institute report had some astonishing statistics suggesting that large portions of the adult population in England had entered a…
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