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Cute Guys at St Silas

The mystery worshipper has been to St Silas. Cute guys there, apparently.
Read it all.
Looks like it was the same reviewer who came to St Mary’s and reviewed us at Pentecost.

Gibson St Gala

Just back from St Silas Church. I’d been at the the Gibson St Gala. It is a great little street festival - much more fun, I think than the big parade which took place on Byers Rd last week. St Silas have a fantastic position for this one and were making the most of it […]

Introducing Nick Cox

I meant to say last week that I had a very pleasant hour and a half with Nick Cox. He is the lay rep at St Silas, our nearest (well, geographically!) Episcopal neighbours. We had a good conversation about things that matter.
Anyway, he keeps a blog which can be found here: www.learningtowalk.blogs.com/
Go check him out. […]

Divine Providence

I see that Aberdeen University is having a conference on Divine Providence. The aim seems to be to revive it.
At least that shows an acknowledgement that belief in it is, (thank God), dying at the moment.
Divine Providence is a doctrine that most Christians think they are supposed to agree with. The idea is that God […]

Conscience and Compromise

Fr Gadgetvicar has been reading Patricia Meldrum’s book about Evangelicals of yore. So have I. This is the review of the book that was published in this month’s inspires.
Conscience and Compromise – Forgotten Evangelicals of Nineteenth-century Scotland
Patricia Meldrum (Paternoster Press - £29.99)
As the oft repeated quotation says, those who do not remember the past are […]

Beginning a conversation

Yesterday, I entered the 20th century. I’ve long since embraced 21st century geekery with the blog, facebook, flickr, pvr etc. However, one piece of last-century technology which I have quite firmly, and uncharacteristically eschewed has been the mobile phone. Although I have carried a mobile for a long time, it has been on a very […]