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The new blue box in the sidebar on the right has some stuff I’ve written in it, mostly sermons and articles.  Feel free to download them but let me know what you think…

meetings about meetings

I spent most of yesterday in meetings talking about meetings.  Not the sit round a table kind, but rather the hundreds of people getting together kind. Our Synod is having a Synod Day at Perth Racecourse in June where we hope that lots of people, young and old, will join together for a day of Read More …

Procrastination and Peter

I’m preaching on Sunday and I’m on a deadline because we are heading back to Keswick on Saturday so I need to be all done by tomorrow.  The thing is I’m having a bout of procrastination.  So what’s new I hear you cry! The thing is I’m starting to wonder if that’s what is going Read More …

mixtape club

The Church of the Exiles have a brilliant mixtape club! People who go along to their meetings are encouraged to make a CD of their favourite tracks and they swap so people can both discover something about the person who makes the mix and maybe also some new music.  Brilliant idea!

if you’re ever in… Keswick

Climb a hill! Today we got up early and headed off to one of our favourite places in the world, Keswick in the English Lake District.  The weather was great and we climbed most of the way up Catbells, the hill in the picture above.  (That’s not the top you can see!)  Avril wasn’t feeling Read More …

the boy in the striped pyjamas

  I’ve just read ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne, highly recommended by my wife .  It is the story of Bruno, a 9 year old German boy, whose father is sent from Berlin by a small man with a small mustache called ‘The Fury’ to be commandant of a place Bruno thinks is Read More …

Amnesty UK

Amnesty is an amazing organisation campaigning for human rights and against political imprisonment.  Click the sign and get involved.  You can make a difference.