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Category Archives: children
Advent food
Holy Trinity’s House Group held an Advent meal this week, based on an Iona Liturgy (I was going to write ‘Wild Goose’ – brand name from Iona – but actually we had cottage pie …). It was a bit like … Continue reading
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RME & excellence
As preparation for engaging more seriously with some more school chaplaincy, I’ve been reading the ‘Religious and Moral Education: principles and practice’ section of the Curriculum for excellence. And I have to say, it’s quite inspiring. I’d picked the paper up with some … Continue reading
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Courteous days
Well, some of the serenity of the convent at Wantage is still with me (tho’ it’s only 4 days on from my retreat …) and the plainchant, accompanied sometimes with a zither, is still echoing in my head as I … Continue reading
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Down memory lane
Having been on a dementia awareness afternoon recently, I was keen to put some of it into pastoral practice. So this afternoon I ferried one of our regular weekday congregants in sheltered housing to another who is in a nursing home … Continue reading
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Frying pans and orange fire
Well, we escaped the Royal Wedding Weekend by going to Amsterdam, and jumped into Koninginnedag – Queen’s Day’ – the huge celebrations for the official birthday of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. We hadn’t known about it. 800,000 people came to Amsterdam … Continue reading
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Resurrection Puffs
Glies Fraser bravely tackled immortality in the Church Times ten days ago, and I’ve been musing on what he said. His argument is that Christian faith and Biblical witness is about resurrection, not immortality. We die, and it is only … Continue reading
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Found in translation
It’s the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible this year, and Edinburgh Diocese held a superb day conference to celebrate it. We looked at translation, the choosing of the canon (which books were in the Bible and which not), how to … Continue reading
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Where shall we sing?
A weekend of carols. We managed to get the church warm enough for a Carol Service on Friday, and we sang ‘While shepherds watched ..’ to what is apparently the original tune, i.e. Cranbrook (= On Ilkla Moor Baht’ at). … Continue reading
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Deep and crisp and uneven
Well, Holy Trinity’s statistics continue to be skewed by events! Yesterday’s snowfall meant that it was the fit, brave and/or foolhardy who managed church. And since we were dedicating a baby to God, it also meant that our average age was about … Continue reading
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crisping ripples 