musings on leadership in ministry
Danah Boyd has written a thought provoking piece about social scripts and the place of ritual following her experience at her friend and mentor’s recent memorial service. It’s a great exploration of how ritual is so important to us and it resonated deeply. We followed a home liturgy over Easter this year and it was really Read More …
I met with an old friend (as in someone I’ve been friends with for ages not that he is old) I haven’t seen in years today. Clive was a student of mine, then a colleague for a while, then someone who’s band I booked and told people about and then we lost touch. Facebook to Read More …
I spent yesterday at a conference organised by the Scottish Commissioner for Children and Young People, Dr Kathleen Marshall on the topic of non-violent childhood. The day was pretty interesting but to be honest the speakers were preaching to the choir. The most interesting part of the day was the chance to have a chat Read More …
While discussing a great report on Human Sexuality the General Assembly was presented with the chance to affirm what it ALREADY believes, that homosexual people are not loved less by God than anyone else and that sexual orientation is not a barrier to baptism, communion, membership or leadership in the Church of Scotland. They declined to Read More …