leadership in ministry
The alarm went off at 4am yesterday morning, and it wasn’t an accident. It was probably a little earlier than necessary but even at that time of the day I’m a little paranoid about getting to Glasgow airport on time from my house. Why the airport at that hour? A trip to London to meet with my Read More …
I was up in Nairn on Sunday, leading worship and enrolling John into the Pilots company there. Unfortunately the enrolment service had been organised for the school holidays so the 6 other new Pilots were on holiday! John was great and we got to wave to his mum who was watching from the balcony! It Read More …
Today was the first of my new class at ICC on Communication. It’s a first year class on the Youth Work and Theology course so Today was one of their first classes! We talked about (well I talked most) the internet and some tools for keeping in touch with their young people like Bebo and Read More …
I’m leading worship in Clydebank on Sunday, and it’s Harvest. It’s an all age service and this is the first time I’ve led worship there. Any thoughts? Ideas? HELP!!! My past experiences of harvest services have been a little ‘unreal’. They tend to be jolly occasions when we sing songs about sewing and ploughing and Read More …
I’m still being pretty organised. For those of you who missed the ‘clearing out and starting over’ kind of posts a few weeks ago, I’m having a go at being tidy and organised. So far it’s not too bad, although I have a small pile of things that need either sticking back in my bag Read More …
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 …