musings on leadership in ministry
You’ve got me thinking, you and your comments and blog posts and yesterday’s lectionary readings about vines and pruning! Over at Abbotsford Roddy has, as usual, been mixing insightfull questions with fabulous liturgy. All of this led to a sermon yesterday that was a bit of a half formed thought. So I’m going to ty Read More …
Some of the bloggers I read have been posting their thoughts on the petition to the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly regarding the ordination of ‘practicing’ homosexuals. I wrote about it in my posts ‘Not In My Name‘ and ‘How Would Jesus Behave?‘ but there are some other interesting thoughs: John Orr has posted some Read More …
Do you ever get those days where you just don’t know where to begin? I’m having one of those days. I’m sitting with a blank piece of paper and a pen. Well a number of pens actually. Coloured sharpies. But that’s not important. What is important is the topic I’m trying to think of some Read More …
My previous post on the petition launched ahead of the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly in support of the overture (motion) from the Presbytery of Lochcarron & Skye was my most viewed post ever. I didn’t set out to say anything controversial and hoped to appeal to people to be calm, reasonable and gracious. The Read More …
You may have heard on the BBC Scotland news this evening that Queen’s Cross Church of Scotland’s right to call an openly gay man to be their minister, a decision endorsed by a majority vote of the Presbytery of Aberdeen, has been the subject of a complaint and the case will be heard by the Read More …
The new issue of the OneKirk Journal is now available online. It has some great stuff including: reflection on the use of torture a guide to some of the notable events at General Assembly ‘champagne bubbles’ by Roddy Hamilton A conversation with Scott M Rennie and an Introduction to Emerging Church by some guy called Read More …
Another round of birthdays (pun intended) this week with Jack turning 7 and Ben 10. Both the boys got some golf gear and today we headed down to Strathclyde Park Golf Course to try out their new bags, clubs, trolleys and Tiger Woods caps. I’m sure it won’t be too long before they can both Read More …
