Chris Hoskins on May 15th, 2009

I got an email a few minutes ago asking me if i would be happy to speak to a reporter about this press release from the Church of Scotland. (Yes, yes, I know i’m a little bit smug, but I’m excited about it!)
It started me thinking, other than a (IMHO) very tricky website to manouvre, [...]

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Chris Hoskins on January 27th, 2009

Over the last few months I’ve been wrestling with the question: ‘can community exist online?’ Specifically in a Christian context.
With the rise in the last few years in social networking technology more and more people are referring to their online community. I do it, I’m sure many of you have at somepoint as well. But [...]

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Chris Hoskins on January 9th, 2009

So, my earlier post about Gaza, alongside some twitter posts I made drew the attention of a BBC Journalist looking for people to be involved in a live radio debate tonight. I only spoke on it for about a minute, but the show as a whole made for interesting listening. It lasts about 50 minutes, [...]

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Chris Hoskins on December 21st, 2008

So I haven’t blogged in ages, but I’ve been doing plenty of mulling in preparation to blog!
As you may know already, on November 20th myself and 11 others from the Church of Scotland flew out to the Holy Land for an 8 day pilgrimage. As well as myself, the merry band consisted of: Steve Mallon, [...]

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Chris Hoskins on December 4th, 2008

So, I’m not long back from my trip to Israel and Palestine, let me tell you, that trip was awesome!! But i’m still processing most of what happened on that trip, once I’m a little further along that process I’ll start blogging about it!
Just now, I want to blog about something new and exciting in [...]

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Chris Hoskins on November 17th, 2008

Yep, I’m lonely, at least I will be for the next 18 hours or so. Linda’s away to New York with uni for the week. Although, I’m away to Israel for a week as of Thursday, so I can’t really complain! I’m off down to Edinburgh tomorrow though for meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow throughout [...]

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