Perhaps, like me, you’re warily happy & hopeful about Kanye West’s conversion to Christ and latest album ‘Jesus is King’. I love the “Airpool Karaoke” video, in which James Corden hitches a plane-lift with Kanye & his acapella singing gospel-choir. Corden’s clever clumsy-chumsy chat frees Kanye […]

Jonny Wilkinson’s reflection on England’s 2003 triumph in the Rugby World Cup is astute,

“If you are grounded, it can be amazing. If your feet are not planted in something deeper, it can feel like, ‘what the hell is going on?”

England head coach Eddie Jones comment about […]

Who’s afraid of The Holy Ghost? Halloween throws up myriad images designed to scare, including ghosts, ghouls, goblins & gremlins. People’s understanding of the word ‘ghost’ has changed significantly over the years, such that it’s no longer helpful to describe the third dimension to God’s personality and […]

How easily Fear and Worry rob us of The Life God wants for us! How quickly despair and anxiety can eat massive chunks out of our sense of wellbeing.

“Peace does not come because you finally have control over your life; peace comes when you no longer need control.” (ER McManus)

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Wowza, Wowza, Wowza!!! What a rich variety of colours, cultures, characters, callings and creativity, oozes from and overflows this Glesga World Church: St Rollox Parish Church of Scotland. Around 50% of Sighthill tenants are asylum seekers or refugees, of which many now call St Rollox their […]

Whether careless or calculated, some recent words from Members of Parliament have deepened the ‘fault lines’ of division in British politics and opened fractures and fissures in parties. The widower of murdered MP Jo Cox, Brendan Cox, Church leaders and many others are rightly […]

‘Thomas Cook’ (1808- 92) was an extraordinary self-made man, recognised as a ‘Father of Travel’, who took pride in making travel more affordable. This down-to-earth Baptist preacher and entrepreneur had myriad occupations, businesses, successes, sorrows and setbacks. He once declared bankruptcy, and lost his daughter on […]

First hearing about PM Boris ‘proroguing’ parliament, I wondered if it had something to do with ‘Pierogis’, Stuffed Dumplings! “Fair definition, Neil” you might say. Of course, now we all know that ‘Proroguing Parliament’ is ‘asking for it to be suspended or extended’.

Whatever our personal perspective […]

So why blog on Monday mornings? It’s not as if I don’t have a few other things to do.

It all started at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010, trying to include my church, local community, friends and family in my journey there as a chaplain in […]

30 years ago, when I started as ‘meenister’ at Fullarton, I didn’t imagine me still here today! I thought 25 years max’, not wanting to outstay my welcome. Yet, God had other plans and yesterday, one day after my ordination anniversary, I’d another of those dream […]