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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
- 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
- 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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RevRabRants
- May 16, 2019
- 3 min
12 new disciples
The Special Commission on structural reform finally reports and leading the way are 12 new disciples! Dubious about the way this...
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RevRabRants
- Jan 19, 2019
- 4 min
What is cheesecake?
So you probably have some slightly different recipes for coming up with cheesecake, but at the end of the day you will be eating...
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RevRabRants
- Nov 17, 2018
- 4 min
CHEXIT
CHEXIT The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland voted for a radical action plan to be drawn up for the next three years. It seems...
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RevRabRants
- Nov 3, 2018
- 4 min
Open letter to the Council of Assembly
Dear Council of Assembly, The Council of Assembly Presbytery Conference 2018 has come and gone. At the top of the Hotel notepaper it...
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RevRabRants
- Oct 1, 2018
- 3 min
Basic task(s) of ordained ministry
1. Answer all e-mails swiftly. 2. Lead all spiritual discussion evenings at Church because you are the expert. 3. Open and close up the...
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RevRabRants
- Aug 19, 2018
- 4 min
Open letter to my Presbytery Clerk
Dear Andrew, Having sat in your seat for five years before you took up office as my successor as Presbytery Clerk, I know some of the...
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RevRabRants
- Jul 15, 2018
- 3 min
Bums on seats!
They say it’s not all about bums on seats; the Church is so much more than that. It’s about showing God’s love in action, it’s about...
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RevRabRants
- Jun 11, 2018
- 3 min
Open letter to my congregation!
Dear friends, What a privilege it is to minister alongside you! I have great news to share with you! There are some 2.2 billion...
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RevRabRants
- May 25, 2018
- 3 min
KISS me quick!
So as General Assembly 2018 continued, the short (her own self-description) Moderator, facing a barrage of questions at Report times that...
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RevRabRants
- May 22, 2018
- 1 min
Hats off...
Tuesday at GA2018… Hats off to the three young people from Dornoch who entertained us before Assembly commenced, two on fiddle, one on...
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RevRabRants
- May 21, 2018
- 5 min
Courage sister, courage brother!
Missed my Monday off with my beautiful little granddaughter today in favour of fulfilling my GA duty as a Commissioner. I’m sure she’ll...
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RevRabRants
- May 20, 2018
- 3 min
Another opening, another show!
Welcome to the opening of General Assembly 2018! Traditional but witty Mod departs, in steps Susan Brown, appropriately in this year when...
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RevRabRants
- May 13, 2018
- 3 min
3-Year (ish) Plan
Ten days before the General Assembly I get my copy of the Council of Assembly’s ten year (yes that is ten, one followed by a zero)...
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RevRabRants
- Apr 29, 2018
- 3 min
Diary of a nobody!
Some will no doubt hear of me ranting away about change and reform in the Kirk and dismiss me as an irksome nobody who will soon fizzle...
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