My God another ane! Female reverend is new moderator Sheilagh Kesting is the new moderator of the Church of Scotland. I say, steady on old chaps, is that two women at the helm within the last 5 years. Being Catholic I don’t really know what the Moderator does, except that the heidie rotates on a regular basis. This is good and bad, good in that a range of different people have a go at it, in the Catholic church an archbishop/Cardinal usually has to die in office first – bit of a bummer for ambitious souls. The downside for the CoS head is that they don’t get much time to establish themselves in the public limelight, you’ve only just got to remember the name before the next one’s being installed. It also leads to a really wierd imbalance of power in the media. The Catholic archbishops seem to get a hell of a lot more media time in proportion to the size of their flock. Moderators crop up every now again, going on peace marches and the like but when moral issues are in the news it’s strange how little their views are canvassed for by press. I don’t understand why.
Archive for the ‘Women’ Category
Female moderator of the Church of Scotland. Women on top part two
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Anna Politkovskaya – Edinburgh Book Festival appearance available
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006The famed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya who was murdered recently – many suspect this was retribution for her outspoken views, visited the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005. By way of rememberance and “because the Book Festival will always uphold freedom of expression and thought, we are making her talk (translated from Russian) available for all to listen to.”. Hear her talk on the Edinburgh International Book Festival Readings page (more…)
Newburgh Ladies Football Club, Celtic Girls (Tayside) Football Club
Saturday, October 21st, 2006I got a request to plug Newburgh Ladies Football Club.
Nae problem. Free Googlejuice here for all sites to do with Scottish Women.
Same crew at RedGerry.com also do the site for Celtic Girls (Tayside) Football Club. Loved the “Celtic Girls Is What Celtic Girls Are”
“…You may as our opposition try and stop us attacking and scoring goals, you may as an opposition attempt to stop us passing and playing the art of football, but you as an opposition will never stop us believing in the art of football because simply put the art of football will always be the Celtic Girls way…”
The “art of football”. Beautiful. Women, Scotland, Footie, great stuff!