The Second Sunday of Easter

When I wrote last week’s bulletin ‘blurb’ I didn’t expect things to keep going regarding Prime Minis-ter David Cameron’s contention that Great Britain is a Christian country. But the quote attributed to Harold Wilson ‘a week is a long time in politics’ seemed to…

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The 7th Sunday of Easter

‘Oh, that’s a bit young!’ I was reading the accompanying paperwork that came this week with my registration as an approved marriage celebrant in Scotland. My limited experience of solemnising weddings in different countries knows enough to check the ‘fine print’ because each country…

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4th Sunday of Easter

I was in Scotland driving to Livingston when I saw the all the red … what? Cotton wool on legs? Sheep with big red jumpers on them? (Seems unnecessarily redundant.) As I got closer I could see that they were just sheep but sprayed…

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The 3rd Sunday of Easter

I’m writing this less than 48 hours after last Sunday’s service – after preaching on the ‘resurrection reality’ as seen in John turning around to see Jesus standing among the lamp stands holding the seven stars in his hand. Trying to understand Jesus (and…

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The 2nd Sunday of Easter

I remember at university (in the 70s and 80s – before the internet) the discussion about knowledge and its expansion. The figure of the polymath was becoming a rare species because knowledge was increasing at an exponential rate. The days were long gone when…

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