Hurrah!!!! Let joy and celebration be unconfined

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Sunday relaxation

For those of you in the UK, this will be hilarious. For those of you not in the UK, I am not in the slightest ashamed about the deep informational malady that has now set in…
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Reason #73 why I am a semi-contemplative

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New, new Tory Logo

Perhaps this one is better?

Hat-tip to Beau Bo D’or. I’ve added some music for those of you with speakers to enjoy with this little item. Just press the play button below…

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Golden Mouth the Dropout

Yesterday reading the Way of the Fathers there was a lovely little biography of St John Chrysostom, known to his mates at “Golden Mouth”. In particular I took delight in this little paragraph:
He decided, however, that he was interested in contemplation more than career, and so he stepped out of track for clerical orders [...]

Civil Sisterships?

An interesting piece in the Telegraph yesterday about two elderly sisters who want to be able to have a Civil Partnership so they can leave their property to each other without paying tax. The only problem is of course that since they are very close blood relatives they can’t and, they cry, that’s unfair. The [...]

New Tory Logo

That’s the UK Conservative Party for all you Canadians…
Anyways… here it is:

Whaddyathink? Hat-tip to Mr Dale.

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Mutable? Undisputable?

A very interesting little web-reference has been causing a stir in the post-gay blogosphere today (Alan and Warren, are you reading this? What do I owe you for that little linguistic plug?). Exodus have the best comment so have a look there at some point.
Here’s the teeny-weeny phrases from the GLSEN website that has been [...]

Getting Dressed Up

Had the opportunity last night to get togged up (Cassock, Surplice, Scarf) and act as Bishop’s Chaplain at an installation in a neighbouring parish. A fun time was had by all and to be honest I loved every single second of it. There’s something quite brilliant in occasionally doing the ritual thing and, when you [...]

More Radio

Local Radio ringing me now!!! Catch me on BBC Three Counties (the local BBC station for Herts) after seven this morning.
Update 7:15am - Well that was cool - managed to talk for a few minutes about the fraility of human life and dropped in praying with a National Guardsman.

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In case you’re up at that time…..

I’ll be being interviewed by Five Live between 6 and 6:30am (BST - 1 hour ahead of GMT) on Monday morning (11th September) about my experience working at Ground Zero three months after the events (December 2001). There’s an internet feed on that link page for any of you overseas.
Update - 6:45am - Well I’ve [...]

A Quick Moan….

To the woman sat behind me this evening in the Royal Albert Hall - If you wanted to go to a classical concert and not have people cough, tap their fingers along to the fourth movement and share Wine Gums (without a single rustle I’ll have you know) throughout the second half performance of Shostakovitch’s [...]

Welcoming but not Affirming

I’ve put up a link to an essay I wrote three years ago on same-sex blessings and Evangelical Gospel witness. I’m slowly reworking it (and working out how to put footnotes into Wordpress) but it’s a good read as it is.

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Tips for Blair

Dan Finkelstein has this wonderful list of advice for Tony:

You will be tempted to call for unity. Calls for unity never work.
You are quite right, you are surrounded by nutters. But the funny thing about nutters is that they don’t appreciate being called mad. Don’t bother, therefore, attacking your internal opponents.
You were quite wrong. Things [...]

Test Podcast

This is a post to test a new podcasting facility on this blog.

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