After yesterday’s admission that I’d found myself arguing in favour of prostitution at homegroup, I think I should do a bit of explaining.
Why does a repressed theologian find themselves among a group of Christians arguing in favour of something that is so obviously not Christian.
First, a marker. I was making a point about prostitution where [...]
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The Bible, prostitutes, and government
Posted in life, musings, politics, theology on January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fearfully and wonderfully made… gay?
Posted in church, life, theology on July 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The big questions go around, and come around, and often seem to knock you off your feet in the process. Questions of faith and sexuality are huge, not only because of current debate in the Church of Scotland and Anglican communion, but also because of the personal heartbreak I’ve sadly seen them cause
Watching John Barrowman’s [...]
We’ve got the Unitary Constitution. So can we doing something now please?
Posted in Scottish, church, photos, theology on June 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
So today, in the shortest congregational meeting of my life so far (although, not actually all that short), the congregation of the church of which I am parted voted to adopt a unitary constitution. I have been trying to understand how this is going to make things different. Sometimes drawing pictures helps me think, so [...]
Luke 7:36-50 (1)
Posted in musings, theology on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I suppose I didn’t know what to do, and that was why I did it. Ever had one of those moments, when you just had to do whatever you could, anything, to try and show how you really felt.
So, I’d heard Jesus was in town, having dinner with Simon. If you ask me, Simon’s, well, [...]
Book Club: The Great Divorce
Posted in life, ponderings, review, theology on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to my first book club recently. It was GREAT. Brilliant in fact. It was very informal, just 5 of us ladies from church in the company of C.S.Lewis’ The Great Divorce. The depth of conversation was fantastic. It’s easy to sit in church and disengage the brain, but there we were wrestling with [...]
The hypocrisy of wearing a suit to a communion service
Posted in church, ponderings, theology on January 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
So, it was communion sunday yesterday at church, and another opportunity to reflect on the alien world that church can be. See here for previous post, ‘a tale of two communion services’.
Dmains brings out the suits when it’s communion sunday. Along with the frowns. It was noticable that every man serving communion was wearing jacket [...]
Reasons to Celebrate
Posted in life, theology on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was a good day.
It was the day of the graduation ceremony for the Masters degree I completed in September. I’d done my undergrad at durham as well, but boy was the MA much more hard work!
It was a great day to celebrate a lot of people’s achievements, and to catch up with what people [...]
The unlikely forum for a debate about English Evangelicalism
Posted in church, ponderings, theology on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Elaine Storkey, a former theologian at Wycliffe Hall (oxford), a vicar factory, has been given £20,000 by Wycliffe Hall, who have admitted that they dismissed her unfairly. This follows a debacle in which insufficiently fundamentalist staff have been bullied into resigning. I wrote about it last May here.
That however, is not the end of the [...]
Blogroll Change
Posted in life, musings, theology on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just wanted to draw your attention to a couple of changes on the Blogroll…
I’ve linked to Jerry’s new (rather than his dead) blog, available here. I’m trying to think of a way of describing his blog, but beyond “he’s a church of scotland minister, but probably not really how you imagine a church of scotland [...]
Questions
Posted in life, musings, theology on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
hehe!
from ASBOJesus
