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 …
Synod is coming to an end. Soon we will share in Communion then head our separate ways back home. Synod always seems like a long weekend with lots to talk about and hard decisions to make but I like the sense of shared responsibility that seems to pervade these decisions. There is a sense of Read More …
It’s that time of year again! I’m at the URC Synod of Scotland until Sunday. It’s always an interesting weekend with reports and debates and discussions about our church and its work in the world. I led a couple of workshops this morning on the Child Friendly Church Award that were really well attended and Read More …
Q: How do you know a fish is a Christian? A: It has a car stuck to it! I’ve spent all week in a very large room full of people trying to sell things to Christians or offer themselves and/or their organisation to support Christians. I started this post with the fish joke because one Read More …
It seems likely (unless someone comes up with another name) that our alt worship project at Murrayfield Churches Together in Edinburgh will be known as ‘Together’, drawing on the joint nature of the project but also the commitment to forming a worshiping community drawn from each of the churches involved and people in the community Read More …
Sorry for the break. Well, no actually I’m not. I’ve been on holiday in Tenerife in the sun. Now I’m back and it’s raining. Anyway, I’m back home, back at work and back to blogging. I guess this is the start of the new session for me. Most churches start back their normal routine around Read More …
Day 3 was a bit of an odd one for me. I spent most of the morning in bed after being unwell for most of the night (no alcohol involved!). In the afternoon I laid out a labyrinth for the FURY Oasis (activities and chill out for youth delegates). The labyrinth went really well and Read More …