What did you do in your holidays? I’m doing Thought for the Day! Catch me live on BBC Radio Scotland at about 07.23, or catch up on Good Morning Scotland on BBC Sounds. #GMS

There is so much to celebrate about the life of Pope Francis, and therefore also a deep sense of loss at his passing. He truly set an example of faithfulness to Christ. And how amazing that he has died in the context of Easter with its message of hope for salvation and new life. (1/3)

250% uplift in communicant numbers today compared to a ‘normal’ Sunday at St Anne’s Dunbar! Plus a baptism and the blessing of a civil partnership. I think we can say ‘He is risen!’. Oh, and a liturgical lace change, just in time for the festivities! ⚓️

Holy Saturday, and I literally found Jesus on Dunbar High St! I thought he was supposed to be busy harrowing hell?!

Give me Holy Saturday over Christmas Eve any day. #HolySaturday

Lest we forget how far the world has still to go, I just received a delivery (at home, in Scotland) from a driver who saw my dog collar and exclaimed (in broad Glaswegian)… “A wumman minister?! That the modern world, eh?!” Reader, the Kirk has been ordaining women since 1968! 🤦‍♀️

What with all the toxic stuff going on in the world, I’ll take a rainbow whenever I can find one.

Good morning Dunbar!

San Francisco gets an A+ for presentation and form.

Nine years of Oswald Doglet! 🐶❤️🎂

❓ Heard of Dunbar Debt Advice Service? 🤝 The inter-church collaboration involves St Anne's Dunbar, the Salvation Army and other churches. 💷 Visit our bio link for the East Lothian Courier article on how the Service has helped 97 clients. 💰 They support anyone in need. Google 'Dunbar Debt Advice'.

Edinburgh, 11 degrees and sunny. Taps aff!

Farewell session with the youth at Harbour Lights Xtra this afternoon. These Friday sessions have been some of the most fun times in my ministry in Dunbar. As you can see, sometimes you can have your cake AND eat it. But I lost my pool shark crown - you can tell by T’s smile!! ⚓️ #anglican

1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

Self-care amid busyness and transitions. #ukrunchat #spaniels #lent

Ok, #ministry peeps. What’re your top tips for good endings & beginnings in ministry transitions? I’m in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, coming to the end of my first incumbency (semi-rural, fairly liberal low church #Episcopalian), taking up 2 urban charges - 1 traditional, 1 contemporary, low church plant. #anglican ⚓️📚

Clergy housing. 🤯 That is all. ⚓️

Made it onto the big screen st the #NationalOutdoorExpo at the NEC today, in the Great Norse Run 2024 film screening! 🤩🏃‍♀️ #iceland #trailrun

My turn on Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Scotland today… Setting my face against the gloomy news and focusing on the ☀️ 😎 Listen back here (from 1h22m20) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 📻 📡 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

David ‘photos so good they make Will feel like a total camera noob’ Miller has arrived! #bm100

Number of loop 1 finishers in under 12 hours: 2025: 6 2024: 20 2023: 30 2022: 28 2021: 12 (covid, US only) 2019: 23 2018: 14 2017: 17 2016: 27 2015: 19 One of these things is not like the other 😬 #BM100

The next runner to finish Loop 1 came in at 11:59:02. laz: Are you ok? Runner: I’m Barkley ok. #BM100

After multiple failed attempts, the conch was blown at 10:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100.

For those with serious #bm100 itches, there's a superb new documentary from last year's epic now online. youtu.be/uyX4GRm7NeY?...

It’s ’waiting for the Conch to be sounded’ season! #BM100

Trail #run with #Spaniels. Joy! 🏃‍♀️🐶🐶☀️🙌🏻

Last year’s palms, fire and Oil of Chrism. Death and life all held together in the hope through the cross. #AshWednesday #Lent

We mustn’t lose hope.

If I wanted to read into transgender theology, where would be good starting places, please? (Haters need not reply!) #theology ⚓️📚

And this. I mean, beware… you can’t ever unhear it!! 🎵😇🎶👼🎼😱 #Eastenders #ChurchMusic #Hymn youtu.be/VTAGIxmwpK0

Big news in Scotland… 🙄🐦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just two rectory #spaniels playing the bitey face game. As you do on a Wednesday afternoon. 🐶🐶❤️ …You’re welcome! #dogspam #spanielsofbluesky

My turn on Thought for the Day on Radio Scotland this am, with a thought about prisons and restorative justice. Catch up on BBC Sounds at about 1h20mins in. #bbcgms

The building of Notre Dame continues! It’s now 1225, and nave flyers are fitted with channels that drain rainwater from the roof through the gargoyles. #Lego #Cathedral #NotreDame

You can tell he had a great day when he settles in like this! #spaniel #dayoff #snooze

The Knitted Bible is at St Anne’s Church, Dunbar this weekend. It’s all quite bonkers!

Edinburgh Diocesan Synod today… and +John’s last, so Dean Frances is introducing how we will go about discerning and electing a new Bishop after +J retires in August.

Real life Jonah moment! 😮https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c2k5e14vwx4o

My running has been a bit hit and miss lately… work has needed a lot of my attention. So it was good to get out this afternoon, even on a grey day.

the #Dunbar Debt Advice Service team meeting today. We welcomed our new Service Coordinator Pam Shields, who takes the reins from Christine Bailey. The service has now managed over £900k of debt for clients and saved clients over £180k. If you’re in #debt, get in touch. We can help. #EastLothian

And here we go again. The Arctic Spine is underway. This is completely bonkers! @spinerace.bsky.social www.thespinerace.com?p=2710

Sunset.

It was announced today that I’ve been called to a new ministry. I’ll be leaving St. Anne's Dunbar to become Priest in Charge of St Margaret’s Easter Road and Mustard Seed Edinburgh. It’s a HappySad day… please pray for us all!

🧶 Visit St Anne's #Dunbar tomorrow, Sat 1st, 2-4pm, to see the #Lothians Speak Their Name Quilt and meet those who made it. You can also view it on other days, 10am-4pm, until Wed 5th. This art was made by loved ones of people sadly lost to suicide. @pausingplace.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2ps42b8h

This is absolutely shocking. The way both safeguarding and conduct issues are dealt with simply has to change. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

This, again. 🥺🙏

Basking in the Shepherd’s delight this evening.

St Anne’s Church, #Dunbar is hosting the #Lothians Speak Their Name suicide memorial #quilt, a beautiful work of #art made by loved ones of people lost to #suicide. You can visit daily from 10-4, & this Sat from 2-4 there’s an informal gathering where you can meet one of the makers. #itsgoodtotalk

Tomorrow’s Gospel (Luke 4:14-21) is precisely the right one to preach in response to +Marianne Budde’s detractors. Sometimes the lectionary really is golden.