I have been preparing for our Living the Questions course in the church and have been giving a great deal of thought to, well, … thoughts. I have often thought that there are people out there that try to stifle free thinking. How many times in your life have you been told ‘you can’t think [...]

It seems that the bible is not orthodox enough for modern day conservative Christians. I came across an article today (you can read it by clicking here) which talks about a group of conservatives in America who are seeking to render God’s word into modern English without liberal translation distortions. There seems to be growing [...]

I must thank my wife for this one today. She shared with me a picture that she found online of a glass box. It may appear from the photograph that it is a perfectly acceptable mirrored box. And it is. However, inside the glass mirrored box, is a great view of everything outside … and [...]

The Church of Scotland have provided a response regarding the Scottish government consultation on Same Sex Marriage. It makes interesting reading. I am not going to debate it here, but needless to say there are many in the Church delighted by its comments and an equal number of people despondent. You can read the report [...]

So today is the day! The advent calendars have been opened. Chocolate has been consumed by children the country over, after taking a few minutes to find door number 1 they have popped the cheap bit of chocolate in their mouth …. yummy! Today is the first day of Advent. Well, no, not quite. Advent [...]

Well, today has been a day and a half. We took the girls to Stirling where Iona and Pauline had to visit the dentist and we did some shopping. Then when we got to the car park we drove the car normally and after a hundred yards or so the temperature gauge shot to maximum, [...]

I have a wee video to share with you today. Advent is all about waiting, waiting for something new.   It was that first Christmas that God came amongst people in the world -
something new.   Rather than the God of the Old Testament a God who was assumed to be distant, far removed, angry, [...]

Well, I have decided that during Advent, as well as getting prepared for Christmas I am going to do two things. Firstly, I am going to attempt to read the New Testament and secondly I am going to try and write a blog every day. Over the last few weeks I have not been too [...]

The past few days at the General Assembly have been interesting. Yesterday a momentous thing happened – and I don’t necessarily think in a good way. The Panel on Review and Reform offered a new model for reforming Presbyteries into larger units with less meetings and more focussed on mission. They told the Assembly that [...]