GospelBlog has been enjoying its summer holiday, hence the lack of postings over the past couple of weeks. ScotlandNeedsTheGospel has been busy though. We have a new leaflet in production, which should be posted on the site shortly. There are also some large mailings happening in the Ullapool area and the Stranraer area. We also expect over the next few weeks to mail out leaflets in connection with planned gospel meetings in Fife, details to Read more…
The sun is shining on Princes Street Gardens. The benches are all fully occupied. Children are running around on the grass … And the floral clock is back in position, complete with cuckoo. It must be Summer again. Edinburgh has something of a fascination about ensuring that we know the time. The one o’clock gun still sends the tourists into a panic at the eponymous hour. Sailors at Leith docks, if there are any Read more…
At a funeral I recently attended I was, I suppose, slightly amused to see a nearby headstone in the cemetery draped with a “Happy 100th Birthday” banner. It seems vaguely ludicrous to celebrate the birthday of someone who is dead – yet, for many who have been bereaved, although they would not celebrate it as such, each anniversary of the birthday of a departed loved-one is a time for reflection and perhaps renewed sorrow at the loss. Read more…
As if the Internet were not enormous and degraded enough, there are increasing rumblings in the media and from the UK’s National Crime Agency of a parallel ‘dark net’. In this murky environment it is apparently possible to completely conceal your identity. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a number of immoral and criminal individuals and organisations have been utilising this capability to pursue their activities beyond the reach of state surveillance. The question of whether our morality is Read more…
So the USA and the UK are, if not exactly friends, now on nodding acquaintance terms with Iran. Perhaps in the global quagmire of international relationships such pragmatic changes of direction are inevitable. Still, it seems we have come a long way from the “axis of evil” days! If we are honest, are our own relationships any less pragmatic at times? We have all, at some time or another, had to change our position on Read more…
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The Christians who meet at Tayport Gospel Hall have been in touch to say that they are beginning a special series of gospel tent meetings starting tonight. The tent is located off Nelson Street in the town. GospelBlog understands that in addition to the meetings for adults at 7.30pm each night, there will also be a children’s Bible club at 6.00pm. Full details are available from their website at www.tayportgospelhall.com.
Evangelist Graeme Paterson has returned to Kinglassie with the Bible Bus! Monday to Thursday from 2nd June through to 12th June, the bus will be parked at the hammerhead between Lochty Avenue and Sauchie Street. The Bible Club for kids is from 6 – 7pm each night and the meeting for older teens and adults is from 7.30 – 8.15 each night. Everyone is welcome!
Jonathan Amos, a Science Correspondent for the BBC, has a piece on their website that is a classic illustration of the pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo that is being passed off on the public as science fact. Prof. Dimitar Sasselov, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has apparently discovered a rocky planet that has a mass 17 times that of earth. This, so the report tells us, contradicts all previous models for planet formation and has stumped the Read more…
The BBC Website is carrying a piece by Tom Shakespeare, a Quaker, entitled “Is it better to be religious than spiritual?“. In it he comments on the growing practice of describing one’s belief system as “spiritual but not religious”. Many people, for a variety of reasons, have rejected organised religion in preference for a self-selected set of beliefs that vaguely recognise that there is some sort of supreme power in the universe. In Mr Shakespeare’s words, Read more…