Apologies to avid readers of the Gospel Blog for my long absence! We are currently having serious work done to our house and every spare minute seems to have been taken up with shifting furniture from one room into another to allow the joiners in, then back again to let Read more…
Sorry! Those of you who have been following the blog you will know that it is over a fortnight since I last contributed anything. It’s not that I haven’t thought about it. It’s not even that I didn’t sit down a couple of times to write something. It’s just that Read more…
The press this week is reporting that St Andrews University in Fife has received funding from a large pharmaceutical company to build a new centre for research into so called ‘hospital acquired infections’, like MRSA and clostridium difficile. With some spectacular reporting in the media, these diseases have become something Read more…
Sorry to keep coming back to the financial crisis. A work colleague tells me that he has stopped reading the paper from the front as it just depresses him. He has started reading from the back and when he gets to the car adverts he stops! The news seems totally Read more…
Friday night and here I am making my first contribution since last Sunday! Almost a week gone past and the intensity of business life, especially in the current economic conditions, has meant the time has flown by without any opportunity to sit down and add a few words to the Read more…
Today the Teenage Bible Class that meets at Ballingry Gospel Hall (4.30pm every Sunday during Fife School term time) helped me to write this blog entry. Thanks guys! The latest news from Washington appears to be that the US government is going to get approval from Congress to progress with Read more…
As appears to be becoming a regular event, Radio 4 has provided me with my stimulus for writing this morning. Apparently, the Church of England is seeking to get people to come back to church by advertising in programmes at football matches. An advertising expert was asked his opinion on Read more…
I have to say, I have felt a bit sorry for Gordon Brown recently. It seems that no matter what he does, someone is on hand to take the gloss off his latest announcement or to interpret a current bit of news in a negative way. Today it was Ruth Read more…
I have just heard Peter Atkins, Oxford Professor of Chemistry, on the ‘Sunday’ programme on Radio 4. I could not believe the fundamentalist views expressed by this very intelligent man. He said, in the strongest of terms, that ‘religious’ people had absolutely no place in the study of science as Read more…
The news media this morning is totally taken up with the spectacular collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers. While driving home this evening I heard one poor lady being interviewed. She had just been told that she had lost her job and she could hardly speak through the tears. Read more…