Posted in church, congregation on 31 March, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Encouraging news for Holy Trinity Dunoon tonight:
Someone* has purchased ten new cups and saucers for us since we keep running out after the service.
In the absence of reports of breakage or theft, I’m going to assume that’s a sign of growth.
*no prizes for guessing who. If you doubt the power of prayer, consider [...]
Posted in blog on 29 March, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Clocks.
Posted in theology on 29 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A bit of theology with your morning coffee?
There is an article worth reading by Simon Barlow in Ekklesia. (thanks to Thinking Anglicans)
it is popularly supposed… that the post-Enlightenment world has pretty much reached the end of God-talk. In reality, however, we may be only just scrabbling to get out of the kindergarten.
Posted in church, congregation on 28 March, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today was set aside as ‘odds & ends and planning’. One of the things I needed to do was to put our charity numbers on church web pages. And then I got a bit carried away.
Rothesay got a revamp, but no new content yet.
Dunoon is redressed & redefined: two new pages [...]
Posted in blog on 27 March, 2008 | 3 Comments »
7.22 pm and the blackbirds are still singing their hearts out.
Spring has sprung.
7.23 pm. Oh dear. They just stopped. All of them.
Birdy bed time.
Posted in liturgy on 26 March, 2008 | 4 Comments »
At the Easter Vigil, I found myself talking up the tradition, explaining:
this is one of the oldest patterns of worship in the church
people have been baptised on this night for most of 2000 years
the first story we hear is most of 4000 years old. Some of what it says about God isn’t quite what we’d [...]
Posted in blog, books on 24 March, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Having faced the horrors of the new non-dom tax laws and cleaned the downstairs storage space, I have imposed as ‘frivolous novels and films only’ rule for the rest of the day.
So why do I have this irrational urge to read theology??
I know I mustn’t. My mind needs to rest. A classic [...]
Posted in blog on 23 March, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Woke up this morning singing ‘a murderer they save…’ after a night of Molly-mousing.
Christ is now risen in the rest of Cowal and Bute as well.
That must mean it’s nap time.
Now where is my little bloodletter?
Posted in worship on 23 March, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Alleluia, Christ is Risen.
…in Dunoon at least.
We had a lovely, intimate service, far from the solemnity I had planned.
My trouble is, I cut my liturgical teeth at a school chapel with a congregation of 900. In my heart of hearts, I still expect at least that many to turn up. Thankfully, half [...]
Posted in liturgy, worship on 21 March, 2008 | No Comments »
I have just printed the vigil booklets.
…and then realised that I forgot to change the readings to Year A.
Enough trees have died this week. I confess and apologize now to anyone alert enough to notice.
