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I’m looking to enlist the help of my readers. We are needing over 25 prayers to appear within the next day or two. Can you help? Sanctuary First is an amazing website that we service from St Andrew’s Bo’ness. During the month of August we have chosen “Prayer from my doorstep” as a theme. The [...]

I’ve started to write a service for Sanctuary First exploring the idea that God is often encountered in the areas of life where people normally would refuse to be by choice. I’ve still got a bit of work to do on it. I’m reflecting on how to make this service meaningful what illustrations can we [...]

Taoiseach Enda Kenny who told the Dail yesterday that the culture of the Vatican was dominated by ‘dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, the narcissism’. Photo: Dara Mac Donaillaoiseach Enda Kenny (file). Photo: Dara Mac Donaill

So who really decides the news the politicians or the journalists? The editors or the media moguls, or the public? These questions have been partially answered for me this week when you begin to see how politicians and journalists and the police feed off each other. Literally eating and drinking and socialising to the extent [...]

Like the Titanic News International is sinking and it may take a host of people with it. The question is who is going into the lifeboats. Is it women and children first or the rich and famous and powerful ? There is something that I can’t put my finger on, when it comes to the [...]

I watched BBC Newsnight once again dissecting the the fall out of the News International scandal. Its getting to the stage of being ridiculous, so much important news being missed or not reported in depth. Anyway at the end of one interview the question was asked what is happening to all of our Institutions in [...]

So where do you think God has put his signature on you? This was the question I was asking the children last Sunday morning at church. I was trying to illustrate that painters when they have completed a work of art with which they are pleased always put their signature on the artwork. Now the [...]

Here’s a video that reminds us we can all change and we can all receive forgiveness. Getting in touch with ourselves and recognising the hand of God in our lives and letting God sharpen us can be a painful encounter There are very few people who go through life without facing some kind of difficulty. [...]

Here I am again kind of breaking my rules by mentioning in my blog a pastoral situation. I hope when you read this you will agree with me that it is sometimes important to even break your own homemade rules in order to give honour where honour is due. After watching a programme on SKY [...]