What's in Kelvin's Head

I’ve updated the Daily Prayer page with some new resources, specifically two bookies containing Evening Prayer for Advent. In the Scottish Episcopal version of Daily Prayer, we have prayers with the title Anticipation which we use for Advent. There are two files for evening prayer. One for the first three weeks of Advent and another [...]

A very dusty hour and a half was spent on Friday trying to get audio from the church to be heard in the hall for the benefit of parents and those working with children who sometimes use the hall and meeting room during part of the 1030 service on a Sunday. I had come up [...]

Earlier this year, there was a rather special service at St Mary’s, at which a number of journalists were present. After the end of the celebration,  I went over to talk to the journalists to give them some quotes for their pieces for the next day. The first thing that I was asked was, “Well [...]

I’m going to meet with a liturgy honours class this week to discuss yesterday’s 1030 service, which most of them were at. Inevitably, I find myself thinking a bit about what it is I’m hoping to do when I give birth to a liturgical service. Primarily, I think, my aim is evangelical. I do subscribe [...]

Remember the Plagues of Egypt? Well, I bet you can’t actually. Indeed, there is a reasonable chance that if you bet any mildly inebriated bunch of divinity students a pint of something nice that they cannot name all the plagues in order you will have a pleasant evening. (Next week go back and ask them [...]

Richard Giles’s book is a modern, best-selling handbook on the design and use of church buildings. The prose is at once funny, profound and opinionated. Paradoxically, this is liturgical space management from someone who would affirm the primacy of the whole people of God and yet also is a Priest Who Knows Best. Excellent illustrations [...]

This book by liturgist Richard Giles does for the texts of the church what his previous book (Re-pitching the Tent) did for Liturgical Space. His conviction is that the primary minister at the Eucharist is the gathered assembly and not one individual. It is written with conviction and humour. Quote: “When I was first ordained, [...]