Minister’s Blog 23 June 2019

If you’ve ever been caught out in a storm, you’ll have experienced the power of nature. Whether it is lightning, thunder, gale force winds or high seas, it can be very confronting. It’s something immensely powerful and you have no control over it. It could cause you some real damage and there’s nothing you can…

Minister’s Blog 16 June 2019

“and seeking to bear witness to that unity which is both Christ’s gift and will for the Church” from the Basis of Union (1992) Today it is Trinity Sunday when we celebrate the uniquely Christian understanding of God as a Trinity. I say “understanding” fully in the knowledge that it’s an impossible task to explain…

Minister’s Blog 9 June 2019

Do you really know what someone is like? It’s actually quite a hard question to answer in our modern times. We can think that we know what someone is like but when we meet them, we find we are completely wrong. We may have come to our understanding based on what others say about them…

Minister’s Blog 2 June 2019

If you ever hear me refer to something as a total “bourach” don’t worry, I’m not speaking in tongues; I’m speaking in Doric, a particular dialect from the North East of Scotland. Like all words, it’s hard to define exactly, but it means something is a complete and utter mess, a tangled up knotty situation…