View from the Potting Shed

This evening Jane and I attended a book launch at Cornerstone Bookshop on Princes Street, here in Edinburgh.

Jane’s father, the Revd Peter Neilson, has had his 2004 Chalmer’s Lectures published in a 160 page volume called Church on the Move: New Church, New Generation, New Scotland (Covenanters, ISBN 1905022247).
Sadly, we didn’t get a copy as […]

I’d just like to clear one thing up: just because I don’t think that Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the best thing that the Smashing Pumpkins have done …

… doesn’t mean to say that I don’t like the Smashing Pumpkins, or anything else that Billie Corgan has done!
The latest album from Billie Corgan, […]

It’s a hot day in Edinburgh town! I checked the thermometer in my study at 0930 and it read a cool 81°F / 27.2°C.
Around 1145 I put the thermometer, face up on my window ledge and came back fifteen minutes later. It had gone off the scale! It was reading at least […]

Nigel left this comment on my site: “I’ve also managed to get another Psion Series 7 (I missed the old one) so any news on your own experiences would be appreciated!”
On 3 June I took delivery of this second-hand Psion Series 7. A month later, how am I getting on?

Well, close followers of my […]

My friend Ruth has found a new online quiz, called “What’s your theological worldview?“. I wrote a paper at college about how our worldview affects the way we ‘do’ church.
Here’s how I scored, quite predictably, really:
You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you […]

I was in our local Scotmid (Co-op) the other day, I walked in just behind a man in his late-20s or early-30s and his young daughter. While he stopped to look at the tabloids his daughter ran on into the store and began to explore. She sat on a kick stool beside the […]

My word, my feet hurt! I’m not sure about whether last night was part of The Long Walk to Justice but it was certainly part of The Long STAND to Justice. But, you know, if our being there and adding our voices and presence to that of millions of others does persuade […]