Unusually for me, I have a nice car at present. Since you are asking, it’s a reasonably new VW Golf Estate 1.6 TDI Bluemotion. Which of course puts me in the front rank of polluters and cheaters of the emissions regulations. I happened to be addressing an Eco-Congregations Meeting in Edinburgh when the news… Continue reading One in 11 million #pisky
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Meeting on Cumbrae #pisky
Overnight on the island of Great Cumbrae with the College of Bishops this week. If you don’t know Scotland, Cumbrae is an island in the middle of the Clyde so you get that ‘away from it all’ feeling. We try to use and support our Retreat and Conference Centre there, the College of the Holy… Continue reading Meeting on Cumbrae #pisky
Suspiciously like the church
We reached the end of the Eucharist in St John’s, Alloa, last Sunday. But it took a while before I could say ‘Go in peace to love and serve the Lord’ People – lots of them – kept standing up and reminding the congregation about things – there were some pastoral concerns for people ..… Continue reading Suspiciously like the church
Retreating
Another window – another view. This one is from Alnmouth Friary, which is a house of the Society of St Francis, on the Northumbrian Coast. It’s a gloriously beautiful place and I’m here with a group of our clergy who are on retreat together. As well as the spiritual exercises, I hope to unfurl the… Continue reading Retreating
Round and round
I visited Christian Aid’s Tax Justice Tour bus in Bristo Square, Edinburgh, yesterday with a group of Scottish Church Leaders. This bus has been trundling around Britain drawing attention to the amounts of tax which companies and corporations don’t pay through schemes of legitimate – if not altogether moral – tax management and avoidance. I… Continue reading Round and round
Jubilee
Well I did get home in the end – Friday evening on the train, I really like the London-Edinburgh journey, it’s a classic railway trip. But this was pretty grim. Or maybe I just wasn’t in the mood. On Sunday, I visited our congregation in Alloa. They are in the middle of a fairly searching… Continue reading Jubilee
A Folding Church?
Well our General Synod was many things – but this of course was the ultimate eco-statement. Three Bromptons – self with Kennedy and David Frazer managed the various aspects of geekery for us. My arrival at Synod – and subsequent folding – never fails to excite comment
Blessed bicycles
You will know that I have a ‘thing’ about cycling. I suppose we could shimmy left and think about what it is – maybe the mechanical almost-perfection and simplicity of a bicyle; or maybe it’s a way of revisiting childhood cycling; or perhaps there’s a freedom thing about it and a way of working off… Continue reading Blessed bicycles
Ready for the net
All calm on the River Tay this afternoon as we walked on the North Inch. During the week, I had a swift pedal on the Brompton up towards Almondbank – still searching for that balanced clergy lifestyle as suggested at the Clergy Conference. Earlier today we had a gathering in Perth for clergy and laity… Continue reading Ready for the net
In prison and you visited me …
‘It’s a biblical imperative,’ I said. ‘That’s why churches care about prisons.’ The person to whom I had addressed such a random remark clearly decided that I had been captured by aliens Still – I thought it was important to agree to attend the Prisoners’ Week Question Time in Glasgow this evening. Two things always… Continue reading In prison and you visited me …