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Monthly Archives: August 2014
To Whom Shall We Go?
In the course of the next few weeks the people of Scotland will make a significant historical decision – whether to remain in their 300 year-old union with the United Kingdom or to go it alone. GospelBlog takes no position … Continue reading
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Learning and Knowledge
Have you heard the one about the king buried in a car park in Leicester? The astonishing story of the discovery of the remains of Richard III in such ignominious surroundings does sound a bit like the start of a … Continue reading
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Linguistic Misrepresentation
I would like to congratulate the ingenuity of whoever it is at Scotrail that is providing the Gaelic translations on Scottish rail station boards. Dunfermline Town now rejoices in the much more impressive Baile Dhùn Phàrlain and Haymarket has morphed into … Continue reading
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Tent Meetings in Crosshill
The tent meetings in Crosshill, Fife previously announced on GospelBlog, started last night (Sunday, 17th August). The tent was almost full, despite the heavy rain showers. For full details and a map please click on the link
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‘Found’ Conversation
Conversation overheard between two beggars in Edinburgh, “ye can get Buckfast in cans noo ye ken!” For our foreign and our more innocent readers, this roughly translates as ‘did you know that it is possible to purchase Buckfast (a highly … Continue reading
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Spiritual DIY
There appears to be something of a theme developing amongst the intellectuals at the BBC. In May GospelBlog noted an article by Tom Shakespeare that posited the idea that the optimal solution for a happy life is to be religious while … Continue reading
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The Greatest Love
Like villages the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, the tiny agricultural hamlet of Craigton of Airlie has its war memorial commemorating the men of the parish who fell in the 1914-1918 war. Appallingly, for a cluster of houses … Continue reading
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A War to End all Wars
Today is the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the conflict known, in its immediate aftermath, as ‘the Great War’ and, following the second great convulsion in Europe, as ‘the First World War’. The causes of this tragic spasm in … Continue reading
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