The new opportunity to blog within the parish site, which is still to be completed, lets me post all sorts of stuff wihin a religious agenda, almost in "sermonland" were I watch what I say! This leaves out the nonsense of Partick Thistle Nil,and how I cope with dad, who had the fire engines to his flat today after putting on a frying pan and going back to bed! The parish site would stop my criticism of the Old Firm and related sectarian matters, in my city of Glasgow, which I hold dear. I think this would be a shame! I enjoy off-beat humour, and that couldn't be part of the parish blog, although my congregation are really into off-beat humour!

I have become aware that I'm not particularly popular with other Episcopalian bloggers, some of whom I have never even met. Is the hassle worth it?

Maybe it is. I have been ordained now for almost 30 years. In the "Old Days", clergy were brothers who stuck together and didn't criticise each other. Now we have brother and sister clergy. It seems we have become adept at character assasination. Now, will the workshop on blogs at General Synod help to stop this? I hope so. I'm maybe not into the "club of self admirers", but my opinions are worth it none-the-less.