Greetings from my new lap-top. I went to Glasgow in hope of finding dried chilies and interesting greens, and the rain was so vile I never made it past PCWorld and Braehead.
I fear you don’t stand a chance of reading anything more interesting here till I’ve set up all my bookmarks, learned how to use Vista (I know, I know…) and played with all the lovely new features of the latest programms.
Now, will there be Stickies or do I have to download the slightly dodgy version that makes XP freeze?
tonight’s wordle distraction
Last night, while we were planning worship for Michaelmas, someone told me about Wordle. How very addictive it is. And for someone like me, who likes words and cares about what goes with what, you can imagine how long it took me, amidst random permutations, to get Angels and God where I wanted them, with the lucky placement of Live, presence and seek. I wonder what would happen if I wordled a sermon…
This Saturday, there is an open invitation to the congregation(s) to come to the rectory to talk about sexuality and the church. This comes after discussions that whirled around Lambeth, and the realisation that far more people were wanting to talk about the church’s understanding of homosexuality than I had anticipated.
We’ve spoken before about ‘the current tensions in the Anglican Communion’ (I am so tired of that phrase), but it was focused on church structures rather than understandings of sexuality. So, today, I am trying to plan the workshop and develop a few small handouts.
It’s hard, isn’t it?
I sat down to map out the areas we might need to touch on, and quickly wrote down (in no particular order):
The goal, of course, is that the people who come do most of the talking/ thinking, and I just help to build scaffolding. And all this has to happen in about 90 minutes.
Preparing this sends me back to questions I have asked before: is it possible to ‘start’ with homosexuality or do you need to go right back through the early discussions on gender and liberation?
If there were one thing you would hope everyone would understand by the end of such a conversation, what would it be?
wonderful exchange 