So you think you can communicate?

All the clergy I encounter tell me how very good they are at communicating and yet so often I find the curse of the global edit strikes in service sheets I am handed. Here are a couple of thought provoking examples from recent services I have attended:

Psalm 23
'Even though I walk through the IRISley of the shadow of death, I will feel no fear!'

The Nicene Creed
'For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Christine and was made man.'

I love the results of a non proofread service and there's nothing better than finding this in the Eucharist:

'Christ has died, Chris has risen, Christ will come again,' is there?

Unless the choir are singing Angus Die that is :-)

Happy Tuesday

Fat Fingers, Head and Typos

One of the best bits of this blog, for me at least, is the fact that I can use it as a scratchpad to dialogue with the many things that collide with me during the day. The problem is that this also means that there are typos to be found (fat fingers and small iphone screen - a demonic combination methinks), which I'm sure pass unoticed by mot of you!

Well, that's what I thought but today someone passed a comment that they enjoyed the fact that I could spell 'Schleiermacher' and yet (in the same sentence actually) also spell 'that' as 'tha'.

Seems I may have been mistaken - perhaps you do nottice afterall!



Happy Wednesday