Posted in blog, photos, prayer on 31 July, 2007 | 4 Comments »
After 15 years of dipping in and out of Mother Julian’s Revelations, I have finally seen a hazelnut. I know, I know — I must have seen them before. But I didn’t know they were hazelnuts, since I didn’t recognize the tree. So I have never known how luminous, how very [...]
Posted in Anglican, blog on 30 July, 2007 | 1 Comment »
One of the blogs I stumbled across one day was Sailing to Byzantium. Most days, I never get beyond reading a small circle of Scottish Piskie blogs, but I read Sailing occasionally because of the patent honesty of the author’s spiritual quest. So here’s the thing. He’s looking for the moderate [...]
Posted in congregation on 28 July, 2007 | No Comments »
There has been much talk about service booklets and church publishing generally over at Kelvin’s blog.So here is today’s crop for your perusal.
This is in addition to the several books that will be handed out in each congregation, rather than the golden snitch of an all-in-one booklet.
And as for the question of ‘what do clergy [...]
Posted in Anglican, Anglican Communion on 28 July, 2007 | No Comments »
The Scotsman has an interesting article on an evangelical American Bishop today. It also explores some of the relationship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and The Episcopal Church in the States.
You might need to read the companion article in The Times to understand just how evangelical this bishop is.
Thanks to Thinking Anglicans for pointing [...]
Posted in blog, congregation on 27 July, 2007 | No Comments »
The blogs are multiplying.
Since this has, by now, become very much my blog, I have registered new blogs for St Paul’s and Holy Trinity.
This will remain the main blog for conversation (unless and until someone else builds conversation elsewhere). The other blogs are for news & events and to give us a clear presence [...]
Posted in blog on 27 July, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If some of you notice a deleted post, it’s because the joke is over.
Yesterday there was an amusing search string for which google offered us as the first port of call.
But I forgot how haughty google can be. By mentioning them and the search string together, I suspect I was seen to be fishing, [...]
Posted in blog on 26 July, 2007 | 14 Comments »
I learned something new about the Co-op’s Funeral services today. They run a bit of desk-top publishing on the side. And right now they are running an offer. Die now, and get a free set of service booklets printed.
Which becomes rather more complicated if you’re a Piskie, and your service booklet needs [...]
Posted in books on 24 July, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sitting on my bed-side table is:
Penny Jamieson, Living on the Edge
Susan Hill, The Risk of Darkness
The 1929 Scottish Prayer book
(Compline is my one concession to archaic language)
Oswald Hanfling, Philosophical Aesthetics
Timothy Radcliff, What is the Point of Being a Christian?
and
J.K.Rowling, The Deathly Hollows.
Guess which one kept me up half the night until the wand [...]
Posted in congregation, photos on 20 July, 2007 | 13 Comments »
The church has been a hive of activity today in preparation for tomorrow’s wedding. The organist had to flee the hoover. The scent of flowers and furniture polish fills the air. The mower has mown and the strimmer is strimming. No matter how beautiful the finished product, one never guesses how long [...]
Posted in congregation on 19 July, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Kids today. In church. Five of them. Of their own free will.
Delightful, eager, chatty children. Looked all around, helped me set the altar, rang the bells, then went home to dinner.
They brought two adults with them too.
So exciting. One of them even lives near by.
(This must be how twitchers feel on sighting a rare bird… 
