View from the Potting Shed

Photograph by Tuvi from stockxpert
Every week I get an email newsletter from The Alban Institute. Each issue contains a leading article, usually about some area of church leadership, followed by a few book reviews and adverts about upcoming US-based seminars and workshops.
It’s really interesting if you’re into that sort of thing. I usually […]

One of the smaller Web projects that I’ve been working on over the last few months is a new website for my parents-in-law, Peter and Dorothy Neilson: Sacred space at Linne Bheag.
Weebly
It’s built using Weebly, which is a really simple to use content management system.
Weebly is wonderfully easy to use, even easier to use than […]

Google’s logo today, celebrating St Patrick’s Day … which isn’t today this year
Ordinarily today would be St Patrick’s Day, it being the seventeenth of March. However, as this is now Holy Week which kind of trumps all other lesser festivals, it isn’t.
The Roman Catholic Church moved his feast to Saturday 15 March this year, the […]

Today Jane and I were in Edinburgh for the baptism of our nephew Aidan.
En route we managed to buy me a really nice dinner suit (for only £95) from Slater Menswear on George Street in preparation for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain’s 25th anniversary concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall next month.
We also popped […]

Tomorrow, I’m preaching once again at St Mary’s, Newport-on-Tay so having had a full and busy week I’m sitting at my PC on Saturday morning/afternoon pouring over the gospel reading (John 4: 5-42) searching for inspiration.
I already have a sermon that I’ve preached on this Sunday in the lectionary (Year A, Lent 3) but I’m […]

Whose idea was it to have Lent so early this year?! Today I suspect that a lot of people will be giving up Lent for chocolate.
Lindt today, Lent tomorrow.
Happy St Valentine’s Day everyone. xxx

Reorientation
This morning I got up nice and early, around 07:00, because I really felt the need to get back into a regular rhythm.
I find the period between Advent 4 and Epiphany quite disorienting. For the other 50 weeks of the year Sunday is still my reference point from which the rest of my week’s activities […]