Saturday, August 26, 2006
Home at last
(backposting) I've been away too long - I really don't like it, so it was great knowing that I'd be home by the end of the day. Morning prayer with the group - a reflective session led by Clive - and then breakfast. Fixed some dates for seminars and tried to get my heads round the courses I'll be taking this year, not entirely successfully. Some feedback on worship, and then the last service of the summer school. A URC communion held by Deborah: it was excellent, and to receive communion, we each took some of the consecrated bread and ate it at the same time. It was a good act of fellowship. After that, lunch, and then home.It was so good to see Jo. She was really pleased, and I got home around 1500, which meant that I got to spend a good amount of time with her. It was lovely to see Moo, of course, and after I _finally_ got Jo down (it took around an hour and a half), I got to spend some time with Moo. We had some fairly fraught discussions about attitudes to women's ordination. Not so much about my attitudes, but about compromise, and when (definitely if, in the case of Moo ("I wouldn't have described the conversation like that at all")) it can be appropriate and/or acceptable. Not easy, but we have a strong, frank relationship, and we both think it's really important to have these things out.
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