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What happens when you turn off church and turn it back on again? That’s the question we put to church leaders to find out what their priorities were following the coronavirus lockdown, what is evolving in their church and what worship and discipleship might look like as we delve into church online. Read More ...
We have a range of ways you can both watch and hear weekly worship from St Ninian’s. Video You can join in our worship on YouTube , Facebook and on St Ninian’s Website Podcast St Ninian’s Sermons is a weekly podcast of our sermons. You can find it on all the usual podcast providers including Read More ...
I like questions. I think they are important, sometimes more important than the answers we find to them The questions we ask tell us something about what is important to us, how we think about the world and how we see the future. “Stewart has a passion for getting people engaged with their faith, because Read More ...
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What happens when you turn off church and turn it back on again? That’s the question we put to church leaders to find out what their priorities were following the coronavirus lockdown, what is evolving in their church and what worship and discipleship might look like as we delve into church online. Read More ...
We have a range of ways you can both watch and hear weekly worship from St Ninian’s. Video You can join in our worship on YouTube , Facebook and on St Ninian’s Website Podcast St Ninian’s Sermons is a weekly podcast of our sermons. You can find it on all the usual podcast providers including Read More ...
I like questions. I think they are important, sometimes more important than the answers we find to them The questions we ask tell us something about what is important to us, how we think about the world and how we see the future. “Stewart has a passion for getting people engaged with their faith, because Read More ...
The latest episode of the ctl-alt-del/church podcast is now available. I talk to Suzi Farrant, young people and young adult development worker for the Church of Scotland. Suzi brings a wealth of knowledge, some piercing insight and infectious enthusiasm to her passion for seeing children and young people fully included in the life of the Read More …
I wonder, what are the things we will see afresh, do differently and reimagine in our enforced move out of our familiar space into our homes and communities? Like many, many others, I’m working at home even more than normal. And also like many others I decided to change the room I work in. I’ve Read More …
Sometimes when two things are put together it works. Other times you just ruin the two things you have joined together. You either get the best of both or a compromise that doesn’t really work for anyone. Churches across the country, and the world, were forced into new ways of working when we were places Read More …
The central question of humanity has always been ‘who?’. The ‘what’ and ‘how’ and ‘why’ and ‘where’ and ‘when’ are important, but ‘who’ is the one that has captured our imaginations. When we look in the mirror, who do we see? Ask any group of people to introduce themselves and you can expect a list Read More …
We’re at a bit of a crossroads. There’s a lot of talk that rather than being a physical thing with digital extras the church will become a digital thing with physical extras. In America, when churches reopened only 35% of people came back… Here in Scotland, numbers will be limited to 50 with no Read More …
25 years ago, not so very far from here, the worst massacre since the holocaust took place in the little town of Srebrenica in Bosnia. More than 8,000 men and boys were killed and over the course of the war somewhere between 20-50,000 women and girls were raped. This week I spoke to my friend Read More …
I haven’t published a sermon for a long time. They’re available on the St Ninian’s website but it felt like following the events of the last weeks and months this was something that needed said. You can listen and the text is below. [podbean resource=”episode=ss7dk-93db5f” type=”audio-rectangle” height=”100″ skin=”1″ btn-skin=”107″ share=”1″ fonts=”Helvetica” auto=”0″ download=”0″ rtl=”0″] A Read More …