TOOK YOUR PUNISHMENT
One day a friend of mine was in class with a casual teacher – you know what happens, everyone mucked up. My friend had some ball bearings that he threw against the blackboard to hit the girls in front; teenage boys! PICTURE: Rodolfo Belloli/www.freeimages.com The teacher was writing on the board and one of […]
Church of Scotland says it would be “wrong” for UK Parliament to withhold permission for another Scottish independence referendum
It would be “wrong” if the UK Parliament withheld permission for a second referendum on Scotland’s independence, according to the Church of Scotland. In a statement issued after Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced her intention earlier this week to ask for a second referendum in the light of last year’s Brexit decision, Rev Dr Richard […]
SIGHT-SEEING: ‘EVANGELISING’ THE CHURCH
NILS VON KALM reflects on why the church needs to hear once again about the importance of God’s heart for the poor and marginalised…
Rising numbers of children dying, maimed and recruited by armed groups in Syrian conflict, says UNICEF
SAJA’S STORY: Saja, 13, lost her four best friends and her leg – as well as dream of being a gymnast – in a bomb attack on the Bab Al-Nairab neighbourhood in eastern Aleppo more than two years ago. Despite that – and losing her brother in another attack – she resolutely walks to school in […]
ESSAY: HOW TO USE DIGITAL DEVICES THIS LENT FOR HOLY REFLECTION
HEIDI A CAMPBELL, associate professor at Texas A&M University in the US, says, in an article first published on The Conversation, that instead of resisting the use of technology during Lent, people could instead consider more carefully how they use it…