RevRabRants
Tried praying?
The million-dollar question: What is an answer to prayer? Whilst on summer holiday this year I was given a little “welcome pack” on the...
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RevRabRants
- May 13
- 4 min
Two job vacancies
Two job vacancies have arisen… Job Vacancy: Minister in the auld Kirk. Hours: 40-ish but maybe 60 or 70 or more. Stipend: £30-£37k...
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RevRabRants
- Aug 4, 2022
- 4 min
Stipend 2023: Open letter to the Faith Nurture Forum and Assembly Trustees
Dear Faith Nurture Forum and Assembly Trustees, Since pay deals are the flavour of the day, maybe you are starting to think about setting...
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RevRabRants
- Apr 25, 2022
- 4 min
Radical Report Card
In 2018 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was presented with a Strategic Plan for 2018-2028. Following 60 years of constant...
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RevRabRants
- Nov 21, 2021
- 2 min
Principle and Principal
Where are our principles as a Church? What are our standards? Do we get them from the business world or do we get them from Jesus? He had...
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RevRabRants
- May 17, 2021
- 4 min
Open letter to the Chief Officer and Assembly Trustees...M&Ms again!
Dear Dave, John, and the Assembly Trustees, M&Ms…again! Having watched your pre-General Assembly interviews, I can see you are making...
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RevRabRants
- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
Debenhams...Kirklands?
Kirklands and Co. It is with great dismay that the long-established storehouse giant, Kirklands and Co, has fallen into administration....
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RevRabRants
- Mar 1, 2021
- 4 min
IF...
David Attenborough addresses the UN on Climate Change (23rd February 2021): “If we continue on our current path we will face the collapse...
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RevRabRants
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
No honours, thank you Ma’am
2020, what a year, one we will never forget, for all the wrong reasons, and one which we long to leave behind. With a fresh start in the...
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RevRabRants
- Dec 23, 2020
- 4 min
Church-Covid-Christmas
So the grand reopening never came to pass. It has stop-started for many months and, in our case at Falkirk Trinity, stopping again in the...
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RevRabRants
- Jul 17, 2020
- 5 min
The Grand Reopening
Lockdown days were easy – stay at home, exercise once per day, only go to supermarket for essentials, save the NHS and save lives! OK,...
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RevRabRants
- May 28, 2020
- 5 min
Pessioptimist
How are you feeling about the future of society, of the Church, and of the world? Since lockdown many have commented on a “new normal”...
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RevRabRants
- Apr 13, 2020
- 4 min
Rich Fools Fund
In the Scottish Independence debate I remember one of the shared convictions was that Scotland was “rich enough” to be independent....
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RevRabRants
- Mar 31, 2020
- 3 min
Open letter to the Assembly Trustees: Church and the implications of Coronavirus
Not a criticism! Just a few ideas to put into the pot in these troubled times. Wholeheartedly agreeing with you that it is great to see...
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RevRabRants
- Jan 31, 2020
- 4 min
Climate of change!
It is official: each decade is getting warmer; the last decade was the hottest on record; we now have the highest carbon dioxide...
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RevRabRants
- Oct 27, 2019
- 4 min
M&Ms, don’t you love them?
In Church speak, M&Ms stands for our Ministries and Mission contributions, something every Church pays annually over the course of the...
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RevRabRants
- Sep 4, 2019
- 5 min
Political chaos (and the Church)
Fact, fiction, fear, hope, and more, all rolled into one is part of the political story as it has emerged over recent times. Everyone, it...
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RevRabRants
- Jul 27, 2019
- 5 min
Good old Summer Mission has something still to teach us!
The late, great, Sandy McDonald, minister at my Church in Paisley asked me one day, “Have you ever thought about going on summer mission,...
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RevRabRants
- Jun 23, 2019
- 4 min
Dooley a Messi business
Comic Relief is “heading in the direction of not using celebrities” to promote its campaigns. MP David Lammy in response to pictures...
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