Celebrations

Celebrations in our family are like buses.  You wait ages for one then they all come along at once… this is the first in a string of posts over the next two weeks! Today is my step-son David’s 21st Birthday. He’s very pleased with his new camera and is off to Hampden today to watch Read More …

Emerging Scotland Glasgow Meet Up

The growing online community of people interested in all things (or perhaps just some things) emerging/emergent Church over at Emerging Scotland are busy beavering away being creative, innovative and generally moving their communities of faith forward.  The network is growing and people are sharing their stories and resources online, but that’s not the same as Read More …

iPhone posting

Just testing the great wordpress app for the iPhone which lets you control your blog from your phone. Nice. Thanks to Thomas for the heads up!

A Question of Faith – a sermon about Thomas

I feel sorry for Thomas.  He gets some bad press, mostly so John can make a point to his readers I think.  I’m not even sure Thomas had doubts.  I think he had questions, so that’s where this week’s sermon focuses… on questions. I was at Lanark Greyfriars and the readings were John 20: 19-31, Read More …

Where is your soul? Bono’s asking…

Bono writes a column for the New York Times…  His Easter reflection is well worth a read…

Eric Bryant on Something Beautiful

This week on the Something Beautiful Podcast we chat with BWG* Eric Bryant, author of the book Peppermint-Filled Piatas: Breaking Through Tolerance and Embracing Love, stand-up comedian, speaker, and a pastor on staff with Mosaic in Los Angeles. from his blog :: We live in a diverse world filled with unprecedented opportunity. There is a Read More …

Why justice matters

Yesterday I watched the service to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.  96 people were crushed to death at a football game.  I watched it on TV.  I’ll never forget it.  But I wasn’t there.  For me it was an horrific episode that left me open-mouthed in shock. But yesterday as I listened Read More …