musings on leadership in ministry
I’ve been one for 20 years. It began around 1989 when I completed the Boys’ Brigade’s King George IV officer cadet training and became a BB officer. I’ve worked with young people and the adults who work with them for all of my adult life. Most of this work has been in a church context Read More …
Holy City ‘Choice Cuts’… faith and futures in a world in crisis The 2011-12 programme focuses on the stark choices facing us today in Scotland and the world beyond. How we see the past, present and future; how we employ our imagination, nurturing, compassion and creativity; what we value in education, economics, health, hope (and Read More …
Roddy Hamilton has moved church to Bearsden: New Kilpatrick recently so his invaluable Chocolate Teapots and bits and pieces of inspired words for worship, Mucky Paws, are now housed at Listening to the Stones. Always worth a visit.
It’s strange how every year something different grabs you from the well known story of Holy Week. This year a line at the end of the section where Jesus is arrested has resonated more than others. Then all the disciples deserted him and fled. Matthew 26: 56 I’ve always known that Jesus died alone on Read More …
Is the world a better place because you believe in Jesus?
There’s a tension in youth work between process and product. We talk more and more about ‘outcomes’ and ‘results’ and ‘objectives’ which are all about the product, the end result. We are more and more scared of process because it’s hard to measure and define. It’s easy to make Easter all about the product. But Read More …
All day people have been coming and going from the Roman Catholic church at the bottom of our street. They come with clean faces. They leave marked with ash. It seems to me a shame that the ‘reformed’ church has never quite embraced Lent. There is something very rich about discipline and something very deep Read More …