Just heard a clip on Pick of the Week on BBC Radio 4 of a member of the Filey Fisherman’s Choir talking about how important the words of some of the hymns they sing are to him. If you click on the link above in the next few days you’ll Read more…
Just a brief blog today – to try and keep my promise to blog more often! There was a very interesting edition of Beyond Belief on Radio 4 this afternoon. The subject under discussion was Spiritual Healing and the guests were, if my memory serves me correctly, a Hindu priest, Read more…
GospelBlog has been getting a bit neglected of late – apologies for that! I won’t make it a resolution for 2010 to try and blog more often as that would almost certainly ensure failure, but I will endeavour to do so. For this first entry of 2010 I just want Read more…
It could not have escaped the notice of a semi-sentient slow-worm that Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, was one of the panel for last night’s Question Time programme on BBC One. Crowds of protesters mobbed Television Centre in London and it seemed that every political talking Read more…
The Daily Telegraph’s ‘Matt’ cartoon today catches a key issue in the discussion on so called Assisted Suicide. In a typically British compromise, we are not going to change the law but the Director of Public Prosecutions has set out a range of criteria that he will take into consideration when Read more…
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…