Church of Scotland General Assembly
Day 1 (and counting….!)
Well we are nearly through our first day of the challenge! It started out well with 20g of porridge and a nice glass of water. That wasn’t too different from my normal start to the day(perhaps a lot less than usual). Lunch and Dinner consisted of 30g of rice and 60g (cooked weight) of beans. … Continue reading
Tearfund: Rice and Beans Challenge
Hi this is Chris’ wife Linda Hoskins. For the next week any blogs you see here will be written by me. Starting tomorrow myself and our friend Dave will begin the Tearfund rice and beans challenge. The basics of this is to bring more awareness to ourselves about those who are going through severe poverty. … Continue reading
A visit to the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly
So last Monday I went to visit the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly, I mentioned a wee bit of ehat thr event means to me in my last Blog post and will delve a bit deep into that in another post, this post is going to be just about last Monday! The theme of … Continue reading
World Mission Council
This afternoon see’s one of the reports that I’ve been most looking forward too this week. The Report of the World Mission Council. I’ve been interested in the work of this council since I first became aware of its existence in 2000. I suppose it all boils down to the fact that, when I was … Continue reading
Youth Reps voting?
Today, during the Church and society debate, there was a significant debate surrounding the idea of Youth Reps being allowed to vote at the assembly. I attended the General Assembly 6 times as a youth rep: 2001, 2002, 2o03, 2005, 2008, 2009 and this issue came up every year! It was rarely brought up … Continue reading
Church and Youth….
During the Church and Society debate today, there was significant debate over issues surrounding young people and their involvement in Church. I can’t give an incredible amount of details as I wasn’t there and wasn’t taking notes! Please excuse any rambling that may follow, this was written as fast (faster?) as I was thinking, so … Continue reading
General Assembly and Social Media
Social Media seems to be, rightly so, playing a bigger and bigger role in the assembly as the years go by. People attending the assembly are tweeting, blogging and flickering more each year. People following online are doing the same. I thought it might be useful for me to list a few blogs and people … Continue reading
The end of a hard day….
So, earlier I posted about the difficult discussion and decision that faced the Church of Scotland General Assembly today. I’m not going to comment on the final outcome, I need to process it a bit more before I do that. But I thought it important to share here what was actually decided. The last thing … Continue reading
Church of Scotland General Assembly
This week sees the Church of Scotland General Assembly meeting in Edinburgh. Usually I blog a fair bit about this, I won’t be this year for a two reasons: 1) I’m not there, so can’t offer the insider view I have in the past. 2) I won’t have the time to watch a lot of … Continue reading
People in Churches….
“Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful brainless tourists on a package tour of the Absolute?…. On the whole I don’t find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe … Continue reading