A while ago, I posted some remarks about the Mothers’ Union (here and here) which surprised a few people, not least members of the MU. The MU, as I said before, is an organisation which does a lot of good things in the world. I was trying to explain why I would not welcome it […]

[The audio of this sermon can be heard on the preaching page - the text is Genesis 29:15-28].
I have to confess, that I’ve quite enjoyed preaching on the readings that we have been getting in the book of Genesis. All human life, it seems is there.
I preached a couple of weeks ago about how a […]

The Anglican Communion and Homosexuality – A resource to enable listening and dialogue
Edited by Phil Groves (SPCK - £14.99)
The clearest call for a process of listening to the experience of lesbian and gay Anglicans came 10 years ago at the Lambeth Conference of 1998. That this book is being published just a couple of weeks […]

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Here is this morning’s sermon. For audio, click on the icon below.

This is the text that I was using, based on the story of Isaac being found a wife in the second part of Genesis 24:
We are going back to the Old Testament soap opera this […]

For audio, click the icon above. Text below. Usual disclaimers. I didn’t say what the text says. Here it is:
I don’t preach on St Paul very often, but this seems to me to be important this week, so I am going to preach on the second of our readings, from the letter to the Romans. […]

Crossed to the dark south side of the city last night for our pre-synod meeting. This is where General Synod members from the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway go through the synod agenda and mull it over before actually going to synod to do the business in a fortnight.
This year promises to be quite a […]

I arrive home at 2145 having been on the go trying to meet people, answer people and pray with people since 0930 this morning. Today has been far, far too long and so very much remains undone.
However, I did hear +Idris tonight speak brilliantly on the Anglican Communion. It was a Regional Council worth attending. […]