Posted in church, congregation on 6 July, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Splendid service this morning with the bishop commissioning the lay team for the various roles. Or at least, I am assured that it was. I was too busy trying not to cough to notice much.
The treasurer did later ask if trainee priests were taught how to drink Lem Sip surrepticiously throughout the service. He seems [...]
Posted in church, congregation, photos on 4 July, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Those of you who have had the misfortune of seeing me lately will know that I have been having what my parents used to call a ‘grumpy day’. All week. I have been frustrated by what seems to be happening in the Anglican Communion; bewildered by the ease with which Gafcon seems to be [...]
Posted in communication, congregation, photos on 2 May, 2008 | No Comments »
I had an interesting lesson in communication today. I was meeting with a woman who has been deaf since childhood. She is very good at lip reading and also ’speaks’ quite successfully. But still, I was worried. How does communication work when stripped of voice tone and mediated by hand [...]
Posted in books, congregation on 9 April, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Sometimes fiction speaks more effectively than anything that is objectively true. And never more so than in complex pastoral situations where no one (not even the poor pastor) can hold all the pieces.
So today, I offer a double book recommendation for the emotional unravelling of pastoral knots. But be warned: the books [...]
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 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 Scottish Episcopal Church, church, congregation on 22 January, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, I received an invitation (along with the congregation) to produce an article for a booklet that is being written about LCM. For those spared the tortures of Piskie jargon, that is Local Collaborative Ministry.
Why thank you, said I, only one thing: why us?
I found that I was thrown into an old dilemma. [...]
Posted in blog, congregation on 1 December, 2007 | No Comments »
It has been said that I am not always good at asking for help. While of course that is not true, it does seem to take a stomach bug to make me ask readily.
So, in the past 24 hours, various members of the congregations have:
collected advent candles at the rectory and transported them to Toward [...]
Posted in congregation on 23 November, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I finally reached the point this week of admitting that exhaustion had won. It tried masking as a cold, briefly flirted with the idea of making me sick, kindly went away for thanksgiving dinner, then settled in with a vengeance as a headache today.
The result is a fully backed up computer system, lots of deleted [...]
Posted in congregation on 29 October, 2007 | No Comments »
This blog post will have very limited appeal. It is for my fellow Choaties. Remember second period Math followed by third period English? Remember how the clocks in the math building were always late, and those in upper campus always early? Remember ice and snow and sleet? The PMAC tiles? The back path through the [...]
