The subject of this morning's sermon was "Love". The following picture contrasts the way in which our culture sees love, a...

I will never forget the first time I read the following quote, almost two decades ago. I was so struck by it, that I wrote it down and have...

"If God, Then What?" is a book quite unlike any I have ever read, it is remarkable and really rather good. For a start it has...

This is the shortest of all Keller's books by some margin, yet it packs a punch in its 45 closely argued pages. It is thought-provoki...

As readers of this blog know well, I am quite partial to the odd curmudgeonly rant. The film critic Mark Kermode's "The Good, Th...

Merchant Navy Class, Clan Line makes a fine spectacle, accelerating away from Egham.

Timothy Tyson has spent much of a lifetime seeking to understand the  key event of his childhood, and the fruit of that search is contain...

For centuries shipping in Scottish waters was endangered by the country's perilous seas, dangerous coasts, savage storms, severe cu...

I'm amused by the way that girls seem to look at this photo and say, "your two footprints in the snow, aww how romantic! "...

My attitude to “all-age” church services has undergone something of a revolution in recent times. It was not that long ago that I was rud...

At their last meeting, the late Scottish poet Norman MacCaig issued his younger friend (and fellow writer) Andrew Grieg with a challeng...

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It was smiles all round at Dunfermline's Vine Church, courtesy of a joyous night of musical entertainment delivered by Lins Honeyman ...

I believe it was the dead-pan comedian Steven Wright who once said, "You know that feeling you get when you lean too far back in y...