Today sees a huge mailing of the Scotland Needs The Gospel leaflet to over 21,000 addresses in the Lanarkshire area. If you have received a leaflet and would like to find out more or if you would like to know somewhere in your area that you could go to hear more Read more…
Thought For The Day on Radio 4’s Today programme was more than usually thoughtful this morning! I didn’t catch the name of the contributor, but he was reflecting on the Jaycee Lee Dugard case and commented on how, if we avoid the use of the word ‘evil’ in connection with Read more…
And so Scotland has found itself in the eye of a political storm of international proportions this week! President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and now Robert Mueller, the head of the FBI, have united in their condemnation of the decision made by the Scottish Government to release Mr Read more…
Driving back from a business meeting in Glasgow today I was listening to Laurie Taylor’s programme on Radio 4, Thinking Allowed. He was in discussion with a couple of academics on what it is that makes societies more or less religious. I’m afraid that I didn’t find the discussion particularly Read more…
Someone has sent me a link to an interesting article on the British Council website. It notes with some evident alarm that 16% of Londoners believe in ‘creationism’ (sic) and virtually throws up its hands in horror when it reports that in the North of England some 25% of people Read more…
As reported in the news section of the website Dan Gillies has been busy with a series of special gospel meetings in the tent at Inverlochy near Fort William. Many thanks to those recipients of the Scotland Needs The Gospel invitations who have gone along to these meetings. We know Read more…
On 10 December 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’. Article 3 of that declarations states, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person”. More than 60 years have passed since its adoption yet the tenets of this document Read more…
Summer is here – well at least according to the calendar. The weather in Fife has been appalling over the weekend. Regardless of the weather, however, the school summer holidays are approaching and for many that will mean an opportunity to reach out with the gospel to children and young Read more…
The Today programme this morning has been dominated by two main stories, both revolving around the results from the elections to the European Parliament – the collapse of the vote for Labour and the two seats won by the British National Party. The second of these stories has given the Read more…
Many thanks to the young people at the Ballingry Gospel Hall Bible Class who have helped to formulate this blog entry. This week we have all been astounded to see how the Government has been forced to completely rethink its strategy on the Gurkas following a highly publicised and forcefully Read more…