Trading Places

Last night my better half, Avril, was invited to speak at the AGM of the Murrayfield Club, a dementia project which Murrayfield Churches Together have been running for 20 years in Edinburgh. She was invited to speak about her unfolding journey with her father who was recently diagnosed with vascular dementia.  Avril has been blogging Read More …

Bring on the Revolution

Sir Ken Robinson’s latest TED talk about educational reform.  Get a coffee and spend 17 minutes being inspired. And if ‘education’ isn’t your thing… substitute it with ‘church’.

How you say it

I’ve just watched David Miliband’s speech launching his bid to be Labour leader.  He seems like a good guy.  He said all the right things.  Hope, justice, equality…  But I wasn’t inspired. Sometimes inspiration is as much how you say it as what you say. I’m sitting thinking about a sermon for Sunday.  It’s Pentecost, Read More …

Com-promise

We now have a coalition government.  To achieve this both parties had to compromise. Compromise is one of those interesting words that can be both positive and negative, mostly depending on the person viewing or making the compromise’s opinion.  It can be a noun and a verb. Compromise means: a settlement of differences by mutual Read More …