Life and Work September 2018 Articles
From The Editor
SEPTEMBER – and the church year is back in full swing.
PRAYER
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LETTERS
Having followed Albert Bogle’s articles with comments
The Big Question
This month’s question is: ‘What’s your favourite passage from the Bible and why?’
Truth in love
Ron Ferguson recalls a response to a rival General Assembly.
Science and faith
The Rt Rev Susan Brown explains why Christianity has never shied away from intellectual challenge.
A broken hallelujah
The Very Rev Albert Bogle considers loneliness and isolation.
Journeying together
Jackie Macadam examines three of the six new projects adopted by the Guild in their latest three year partnership.
How free is your will?
Jackie Macadam meets an academic who has studied the science of the mind.
20 Years of Fischy Music
Jackie Macadam learns about the impact of a Christian music charity over the last two decades.
From Swing Band to Gospel Choir
The founder of the Heart & Soul Swing Band, the Rev Dr Robin Hill highlights a major extension of the music project.
Passing our planet on
Thomas Baldwin reports on the release of resources for this month’s ‘Creation Time’.
The Big Picture
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‘A burgh of barony’
John R Hume charts the history of the Church in Tarbolton.
“Heart based work”
Jackie Macadam learns about the work of two people working with bereavement care and hears how the Church can learn more.
‘Together we are powerful’
Sally Foster-Fulton, Head of Christian Aid Scotland launches the charity’s Harvest Appeal.
IONA COMMUNITY IN £500K APPEAL
The Iona Community is inviting people around the world
CELEBRATING YOUNG PEOPLE
Young people were the focus at Dundee St Andrew’s Church
33 YEARS GB CAPTAIN
At a recent morning service at Inverness East Church
PC(USA) VISIT
The Rev John Brewster, minister of Greenhills Parish
ADVENTURE CAMP
Five teenage members of Woodside Parish Church, Aberdeen
LONG SERVICE
Over 380 years of service to the Church of Scotland
BRIDGE BLESSED
A new footbridge crossing the River Carron was officially
‘A way for us to connect’
Thomas Baldwin highlights plans for new arts outreach work at a church in Hamilton.
Jesus is in us
The Rev Scott McKenna explains why we are the essence of God.
REVIEWS
Richard Gordon’s most accessible book on the Psalms
CROSSWORDS
3 Charity with mission to off er Scripture to all (5
REGISTERS
Rev David Cockburn MacFarlane, formerly of Peebles:
‘We are happy’
Jackie Macadam learns how Christians and Muslims are working together to combat hate in Nigeria.
‘Come down and heal our land’
The Very Rev Dr John Chalmers reflects on a lamentation from South Sudan.