Posted in Church, Events, tagged Gay, Homesexuality, Lambeth Report, lesbian, listening process on February 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
You see, there’s this thing called the Listening Process which our Bishops all agreed to do with those on both sides of the sexuality debate. On one side we have many gay clergy in our Church - some out and some too scared to be out - and on the other side we have those [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Pastoral care on February 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I love being a priest. I love people and I love hearing people’s stories. I can even cope with those ‘difficult’ people that we all come across from time to time. I know how to work round their more negative traits and try to turn them into something more positive. And on the whole I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car on February 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Sitting thinking about my poor wee car and how I really cannot function without it, I decided to give a call to Autosave who sell cheap cars to clergy just to see what was the cheapest car they had on offer. Spoke to a really nice man - yes, my son pointed out that all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Last year at our General Synod I gave a lift to four clergypersons in my little car. Three of those clergypersons were clergymen and two of them were larger than your average clergyman. (This is not the case now for one of them!) Those three squeezed in to the back of my little Corsa with [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Lookin' Good For Jesus, Tat on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From The Week:
” A retailer in Singapore has infuriated religious groups with a range of beauty products called ‘Lookin’ good for Jesus‘. the cosmetics, made by a firm in the US, include a ‘Virtuous Vanilla’ lip balm, which comes with the advice: ‘Look your Sunday best! Guaranteed to help you be worthy and get noticed [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Joke, Lent, wedding on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to Raspberry Rabbit for this:
Following her wedding, an old-fashioned girl crawled into bed for the first time beside her new husband. She snuggled up to him and was surprised at his lack of response. In fact, he rolled over and began to fall asleep.
“So why aren’t we going to make love on our wedding [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Traffic jam on February 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today it took me 2 hours to drive 5 miles. On my way back from out of town and I saw signs that there was an accident on the City Bypass at the Sherrifhall Roundabout which is the one I usually come off at. The queue went back 3 junctions before it so I came [...]
Posted in Church, Events, tagged SEC, SECC, wedding show on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just back from a day spent at the SECC in Glasgow at the Wedding Show. And what an exciting day it was too. I believe that Mother Kimberly and Father Jeremy along with Provost Kelvin were there yesterday. (Although I suspect that a certain Provost spent more time having his picture taken with glamorous [...]
Posted in Book, Church, tagged Book, retreat, Silence on February 15, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Did she heck as like!
Back from retreat having put on at least half a stone. The food was sooo good but way too much for a sylph-like creature like myself who has been on a diet. But when you’re in silence you can’t ask for smaller portions and my mother always said you should clean [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Health, retreat, Silence on February 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I am about to go off on the Clergy Retreat to Whitchester, near Hawick. Our retreat leader is Canon Michael Kitchener and I am looking forward to getting away from it all. We will be in silence and those who know me well will know that I am not always great with silence. It’s an [...]
