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BBC Prayer for the Day – Epiphany
Good morning. Today is the Feast of the Epiphany – the story of the strange visitors from the East arriving in Bethlehem to present their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the infant Jesus and his probably rather startled parents. There is so much we don’t know about these Eastern visitors. Though we might…
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BBC Prayer for the Day – Simeon the Stylite
Good morning. Today is the feast day in the western church of a rather odd saint – Simeon the Stylite who is famous most of all for living for thirty nine years on a small platforms at the top of a pillar. Simon was the greatest of the saints whose asceticism drove them to what…
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BBC Prayer for the Day – the Arab Spring
Good morning. It is a year ago today since the death of Mohammed Bouazizi. His name won’t be known by many people but though he was a rather humble street vender he was surely one of the most influential people of recent years. Mohammed Bouazizi was the person who set fire to himself in protest…
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BBC Prayer for the Day – Hobbits and Creativity
Good morning. Today is the anniversary of the birth of JRR Tolkein the great master myth-maker and storyteller. It is a day for remembering the wisdom of wizards and the bravery of hobbits and for celebrating a writer of extraordinary tales and fables. Fantasy writing and myth-making, like all good storytelling only achieve greatness when…
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Predictions for 2012
Here are my New Year predictions for 2012. The Diocese of Edinburgh will have a new bishop by this time next year. (There is currently an Episcopal vacancy). However, they will have been unable to select a bishop from the first list and will end up chosing a bishop from a new short list prepared…
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Prayer for the Day – BBC Radio 4
Oops, nearly forgot to post this. I was doing Prayer for the Day this morning on Radio 4. You never lose a sense of excitement at the thought of the nation dropping collectively to its knees. This is what I said: Good morning. I’m speaking from a studio which is just a few yards from…
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Evening Prayer at 1700 Hrs on Google +
I will be conducting Evening Prayer in a Google+ hangout at 5 pm today. Will be accepting people into the hangout from 4.50 pm. (4.45 pm for those who have joined in previously). There are 10 places. I will supply the liturgy. You need a webcam and google+ membership, which is free. You need to…
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Predictions for 2011 reviewed
Well, Hogmanay means that it must be time to review the predictions that I made for 2011 to see how I got on. Here’s what I said on 1 January and a quick review of each one: The College of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church will use their considerable intelligence, wit, guile and blogs…
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