ACTS Statement: 2007 Bi-Centeneray of the Passing of the Act Abolishing the Slave Trade

The Synod of Scotland of the United Reformed Church remembers with gratitude all those, slave and free, who worked to bring about the ending of slavery, for which the first step was the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807. We acknowledge that many Christians were slow to speak out against the evils of Read More …

Synod of Scotland

Isn’t technology great…I’m at the Spring Synod of the United Reformed Church in Scotland in Saughtonhall URC, Edinburgh.  I’ve been to this church before and had a great time.  It’s a lively congregation led so ably by Sue.  I love the beautiful windows that were saved from their old building and incorporated into the new Read More …

Lego Genius!

I first saw this ages ago but forgot to blog it…  The picture above is the guy with the plank in his eye, not some random violence!!! The Brick Testament is the Bible in LEGO… total genius!!!!!

church meetings

I’ve been out and about over the last couple of days, firstly at a Church of Scotland Presbytery and then at a URC Area Council.  Both were interesting in that both had short conference sessions where the meeting broke up into small groups to discuss an issue.  Is this a sign of progress? I was at the Read More …

web 2.0 and learning

It seems that social networking is not the only application for web 2.0! Ewan McIntosh has been doing some interesting work around using blogs, podcasting and other web 2.0 stuff in teaching.  Ewan’s thing is modern languages teaching but I don’t see that any of his ideas are in any way limited to French, or Read More …

OneKirk Journal

The new OneKirk Journal is now online and well worth a read.  This is the second volume and is this time it’s themed around Community. 

If God Was One of Us

This is one of my favourite stories: There was once an old monastery which had lost its inspiration. The same routines were performed as they had always been, but there were no new novices and little enthusiasm for the rites of prayer. The Abbot saw all this and he grieved. At a loss as to Read More …