What's in Kelvin's Head

There are some glorious photographs of Bishop Idris which have just come to light in which he is shown teaching the faith in the mission field.
The whole set can be seen on Flickr here. If you want a couple of individual starting points, try here or here or here.

Along with three other people, I’ve been given 3 minutes to speak in a General Synod debate on Friday morning about the mission of the Scottish Episcopal Church in 2009. It is a rather well constructed debate, I think. Three speakers, quick buzz groups, contributions from the floor and responses from some of the [...]

Last Saturday was the diocesan synod here in Glasgow and Galloway. I came back from it pretty depressed and with powerpoint fatigue.
Why depressed? Well, I’m starting to feel uncomfortable about hearing conversations about mission being held as though it is inevitable that congregations will shrink, clergy will die off and become rarer and there will [...]

I enjoyed my visit to Perth on Sunday evening. Several things stuck me which are worth comment.

People seemed in good heart in the diocese. The mission review that Bishop David has been getting them to do seems to have got people thinking and even got some of them excited. I’ve still not seen it [...]