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Some weeks just have everything in them.  I’ve been to the Synagogue in Edinburgh for an interfaith meeting of religious leaders .. been to the final meeting of one of our own committees [yes – one less] … met the Church of England and the Church of Scotland at Dunblane .. gone to the Scottish Parliament… Continue reading Everything but ..

I’m just fed up with the Perth-Edinburgh train service – slow trains, hopeless times [particularly in the early morning], lack of parking at Perth Station and so on …  So I’m going through one of my phases of trying alternatives – before I go back to the train.  Today’s was to drive to the new… Continue reading Green Stuff again

I enjoyed Lambeth – but it’s great not to have it dominating the landscape as it has done for so long.  I’m ready now to try and write some reflections for our clergy to use with congregations – because there is considerable interest out there. Meanwhile, I shared in the Dedication Festival yesterday at our… Continue reading Life after

I’ve been enjoying Dave Walker’s drawings at Cartoon Church.  You need to laugh here. Meanwhile today saw the Opening Service in the Cathedral.  The logistics of moving nearly 700 bishops and their spouses down to the Cathedral are pretty daunting Here it is.  I’m on the right, by the way.  The Archdeacon of Canterbury, who… Continue reading Another Day

Dave suggests that I must have been ‘busy doing what bishops do’.  Actually, I couldn’t elbow my way into the Synod wifi and was reduced to my data card – which, in cost terms, is the blogging equivalent of driving a 4 by 4.  But while others talked about how the church must embrace the… Continue reading Life after Synod

Always interesting to live through a moment of real change – and I think this is one of them.  Usually wrong when you make a statement like that – but …  The oil price may dip a bit from its peak – whenever that may come.  But the fundamental problem is that demand is increasing… Continue reading Change and ..

++Rowan is considering not flying for a year.  That’s fairly daunting – it rules out America, for example.  Meanwhile, back at Blogstead, we anxiously read the updates on the Blackberry from the price comparison sites for diesel prices. I attended the Church of Scotland Assembly on six days.  I stayed for two nights – car… Continue reading Footprint

Well I was doing just fine until we got to Article 3 of the Articles Declaratory at the Church of Scotland Assembly. Which of course is very interesting. Think of the Labour Party removing Clause 4 and you have some sense of what Article 3 means to the Church of Scotland. It’s territoriality. It means… Continue reading Reviving?

Well – it was -6.5C here at Blogstead when we brought Bam Bam back from the airport this evening.  About the same this morning as I cycled on the Brompton across Perth towards the 7.14 am train to Edinburgh.  Just imagine that there is no train to Edinburgh between 7.14 am and 8.48 am. Meanwhile… Continue reading Brrr ..ompton