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cat-lap

Posted in blog on 31 March, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I have returned from the States for a day of serving my ultimate duty.  Purry needy cat, so eager that she rubbed her nose on my glasses frame when I fell asleep.
Molly-cat was particularly glad to come home today because I suspect she’s spent the past week wondering if she would ever see me again.  [...]

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blank canvas

Posted in Anglican Communion, church, worship on 29 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I had the rare privilege of worshiping ‘without strings’ today:  a church I’d never been to, with people I’d never met.   I went because I’d heard good things about them.  I went because as I pondered the church I usually attend for it’s beauty, music, incense and ritual, I knew I couldn’t face the old [...]

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flutter by

Posted in photos on 26 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »

“So, what would you like to do today” led Dad and I  on a long jaunt through the Pioneer Valley.  The goal was a used bookshop in an old saw mill, and then lunch in Northampton.  But then Dad saw the flutterby sign, so we joined the small stompy children and the camera clad parents, [...]

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ready

Posted in blog on 20 March, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Molly sees cupboards being cleaned and books being boxed and is making her own plans for moving.

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surprising things

Posted in blog on 20 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So, do you suppose the white haired man stumbling around the farm shop in confusion was most perplexed by the fact that:

there were two people in dog collars blocking the door?
one of the two was a woman?
the other was wearing a purple shirt?

In other surprising news, I was called Tiggerish today.
Yes, that’s right…
…
get it all [...]

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imagining otherwise

Posted in scripture, sermons, theology on 16 March, 2009 | 10 Comments »

So, I seem to have gotten away with re-writing the 10 commandments.  The faithful at Tighnabruaich were a bit alarmed, but Dunoon didn’t bat an eye.
The question on the floor was how can we help the text be heard by a generation that can’t bear with Thou Shalt Not long enough to find any good [...]

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thou shalt

Posted in preaching on 14 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »

How surprising.
I seem to have decided to preach on the 10 commandments.
I have encouraged the lay team to ban ’should’ from their sermons.  But I suspect I may need ’shall’.
addition:  I’ve just come across this reflection, Beautiful Law,  which is well worth reading.

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a rare morning in Dunoon

Posted in communication on 13 March, 2009 | 4 Comments »

It is not yet 2 pm, but whatever else comes of today, it has been a good day’s work.
Primary School assembly this morning.  I hadn’t a clue as to what I wanted to say, so yielded to confusion and brought a lot of pictures that relate to my faith and invited questions.  It was fun.  [...]

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mystified

Posted in Anglican Communion, blog, culture on 12 March, 2009 | 15 Comments »

Today has been the day of un-writable blog posts.
I wanted to write about the various links on Thinking Anglicans (here and here) about the escalation of the rhetoric of abuse against gay people in Nigeria, but I find I am lost for words at the inhumanity of what is being done in Christ’s name.  (Notice [...]

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spared

Posted in blog on 9 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’m afraid I’ve spent the past hour plotting the decoration of the new rectory again.  (consider it my version of virtual cycling).
When I first walked away from the house in Dunblane, I thought that irony might be the only way to approach the strong 1960s features (walnut pelmets, bedroom sinks, a vintage kitchen…)  But, the [...]

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