General Assembly 2025 Final reflections   ·      Disappointment that the Report of the Radical Reform Group was once again shunted to the...

GA2025 Wednesday highlights (using the term “highlights” very loosely)   ·      Chaplains to the Forces day! 10,000 forces personnel on...

GA2025 Tuesday highlights (using the term “highlights” very loosely)   Convener’s speech: palliative care and midwifery services being...

GA2025 Monday highlights (using the term “highlights” very loosely)   Assembly Trustees Convener’s speech: Critical decisions need to be...

GA2025 Saturday highlights (using the term “highlights” very loosely)   1.    First time King has appointed a Roman Catholic as Lord High...

Deliverance: 1.    Receive the Report. 2.    Note with concern that a radical three-year reform plan was called for and agreed at General...

Amidst all the change which the Church is necessarily undergoing at this time it seems there is one thing that can never change…manse...

Once upon a time there was a young man called Noah. He had a nice career path ahead of him, but God called him into ministry after...

Another open letter to the Faith Action Group and Assembly Trustees. Dear Faith Action Group and Assembly Trustees, For my views on pay...

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...

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...

Dear Faith Nurture Forum and Assembly Trustees, Since pay deals are the flavour of the day, maybe you are starting to think about setting...

In 2018 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was presented with a Strategic Plan for 2018-2028. Following 60 years of constant...

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...

Dear Dave, John, and the Assembly Trustees, M&Ms…again! Having watched your pre-General Assembly interviews, I can see you are making...

Kirklands and Co. It is with great dismay that the long-established storehouse giant, Kirklands and Co, has fallen into administration....

David Attenborough addresses the UN on Climate Change (23rd February 2021): “If we continue on our current path we will face the collapse...

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...

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...

Lockdown days were easy – stay at home, exercise once per day, only go to supermarket for essentials, save the NHS and save lives! OK,...