Chris Hoskins on April 16th, 2009

This is a slideshow of pictures from when I visited St Peter’s Primacy on the pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Church of Scotland last year. The singing is a recording I made of the group singing ‘Jesus, we are here’ as we all sat in the chapel.
Once I get some time, I’ll get [...]

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Chris Hoskins on March 26th, 2009

I know the Israel / Palestine debate is a tricky beast, but when I read this report I was truly disgusted:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7960071.stm

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Chris Hoskins on January 16th, 2009

So I’ve been having fun with my holy land trip photos and photoshop…
this next one is of a bench that was outside a museum on the shores of Galilee that had the remains of a 1st century fishing boat on display….
The bench reads: “My identification with the Galilee and with my home in the Galilee [...]

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Chris Hoskins on January 9th, 2009

So, unless you’ve been living in the wilderness or under a rock you’ll have heard what’s going on in Gaza.For that reason, I feel no need to go into details of what’s happened, except to register my outrage and shock!
How can you justify in any way the killing of so many civilians? “We want to [...]

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Chris Hoskins on December 26th, 2008

Hope all of you had a good Christmas. I certainly had a very enjoyble day, from being woken at 8am by Linda’s excited parents, to an awesome dinner where I ate loads, to trying out my new Gorilla Tripod. We were notciably absent from any sort of Church activity :-/ I’m ny required to do [...]

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Chris Hoskins on December 22nd, 2008

An account of the first full day on the recent COSY pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

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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 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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Chris Hoskins on November 12th, 2008

And continuing the blog tag theme, heres another one Shuna tagged me in…..5 things I’ve always wanted to do…
1: Play American football at Soldier field in Chicago
2: Spend time in Israel; I get to do that next thursday!!
3: Emmigrate to Canada
4: Make a difference in the world – most likely through Youth Ministry
5: Climb a [...]

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