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Same-Sex Blessings Authorised for Trial Use
Through the wonders of the internet, I was watching last night as the US based Episcopal Church General Convention voted to allow a formal liturgy for Same-Sex Blessings to be authorised for trial use in such dioceses and congregations which chose to allow them. It was an undramatic moment, it has to be said –…
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Equal Marriage: BBC Interview
It should not be long until the Scottish Government comes to its decisions about how to move forward on Equal Marriage in Scotland. Two members of St Mary’s, Jaye and Ruth Richards-Hill had a good (and surprisingly long) interview on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday. If you are interested in hearing it, you can find it…
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So out of touch
Sometimes you get through a lovely day at church and then look online or look at the papers and wonder just how Christian leaders manage to go about getting such bad press on behalf of an organisation which is at heart full of people who are basically generous and loving. Such was my weekend. I…
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Crunch time for the Church of England
It is make your mind up time for the Church of England this week on the question of whether to move to open the Episcopate to female candidates. Somehow or another the synodical process in England has reached what seems to be a very unfortunate place. After many compromises to ensure that those who are…
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Web hosting recommendation
Several people have been asking me for a recommendation for web-hosting. I’m very happy to recommend the company that I use myself. They have the unglamorous but reassuring name of EZPZ and I’ve found them to be very good. They are particularly strong at fast customer service. Anyone looking for web-hosting for a WordPress site…
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Sermon preached on 1 July 2012
The sermon this week seemed to interest people quite a lot – more so than anything I’ve preached in months, I think. Here’s what I said: Quite a number of years ago, I went to visit priest who had just begun working in one of our congregations – it was someone whom I had enjoyed…
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Bloggers come and bloggers go
It seems to me that the blogging world is changing at the moment. It seems as though there has been a slow down in the number of people starting new blogs and those who are keeping them may be keeping them slightly less often. Twitter and Facebook updates (which are a form of micro-blogging) have…
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Will you continue?
The posts that I’ve made on this blog which have attracted by far the most comment in recent months have been those connected with whether baptism must necessarily happen to a person before the Eucharist. I think we’ve established that a lot of people care very much about this question. It is my view that…
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Homily – Music Sunday Orchestral Megasong
Here’s what I said to wrap up our West End Festival events on Sunday evening: As most of you will know, it is my habit to announce what we are doing at St Mary’s on the internet. Most people who come through the doors of this church these days for the first time have already…
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