Well, Happy New Year everyone! Despite the holiday period I have been absolutely blogless. Not, I hasten to add, through extreme laziness – well, perhaps slightly due to that. Mostly, it is because I haven’t had a minute to collect my thoughts. Now that I am commuting again, I am Read more…
Recent interventions by senior politicians in the decisions of the established religious organisations in the UK are beginning to give Christians, and others, cause for serious alarm. Even those of us who do not adhere to traditions that involve ecclesiastical law and hierarchies cannot but be concerned at the freedom Read more…
Edinburgh’s Christmas fair ground and German market are being constructed in Princes Street East gardens. I couldn’t help but notice the incongruity of the statue of David Livingston standing with an outstretched Bible while the chair-o-plane is carefully set out to ensure that the flying chairs don’t take his head Read more…
Anyone who consumes news output from the BBC in any format at all cannot fail to have noticed that all is not well at Auntie Beeb’s place. The news website is screaming, “BBC needs ‘radical overhaul’”, while Eddie Mair is asking whether Newsnight is “toast” and the Director General resigns Read more…
Following somewhat in the vein of my last post, there was an interesting discussion yesterday on BBC Radio4 between an author of romantic fiction and a computer programmer. The latter has developed software that can produce readable works of prose and poetry using a complex mathematical algorithm. One of the Read more…
I recently enjoyed a You Tube video of a John Lennox lecture at Harvard on the subject of Miracles. One of his arguments on the evidence for a supernatural intelligence and the limitations of scientific explanation is, I think, particularly powerful. He tells the story of a conversation over dinner Read more…
GospelBlog has been on holiday this week. My obsession with keeping up with the latest news has been modified by the intermittent availability of wifi in the West of Ireland. Having said that, now that I am back in full communication it doesn’t appear that too much has moved forward Read more…
According to the BBC News website this morning, Felix Baumgartner will attempt to parachute back to earth from nearly 40 miles above the earth. At this altitude, he will be able to see the curvature of the earth and the sky above him will be black. Air pressure will be Read more…
GospelBlog has discovered the WordPress app for Android! Now I can blog while travelling. It is my intention to try and start blogging a bit more regularly again – although a trawl back through my historic posts will quickly show that my best intentions have failed in the past. Hey Read more…
Those of you living around the Central Fife towns of Lochgelly, Cardenden, Kinglassie and Ballingry and those over the border into Perth & Kinross living around Scotlandwell will have received a leaflet advertising some planned Tent Meetings. The Christians who meet at the Gospel Hall, Ballingry intend to hold meetings Read more…