I’ve just spent a week on a beautiful Scottish island. I was on retreat – a week away from television, the internet, work, e-mails, diary. Nothing to do but reflect, pray, walk and rest. It sounds idyllic and many people would love to have such an opportunity – or would they? When I tell friends […]
Last week was a busy old week in the world of interfaith in Scotland. It began with an event at the Skih Gurdwara to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak in 1469. Like all founders Guru Nanak wanted to call the people of the time back to a renewed spiritual way
This week Stephen Hawking, perhaps the most well know physicist of our time died. There was a sense of sadness about this true to say he was a prisoner in his body. Although he could only move one finger and a muscle in his cheek, these were transformed into mechanical speech so that the world
I’ve never been a fan of watching sport on television. Events like the Olympic and Commonwealth Games have always passed me by apart from the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies. This week, however, I happened to pick up some of the Winter Olympics and was quite bowled over by what I saw. While I couldn’t
This week we have been observing Holocaust Memorial Day. It’s a civic observance and not a religious one in that the Jewish community will have their own remembrance day called Yom HaShoah later in April. The day remembers all those murdered by the Nazis – disabled people, homosexuals, Roma and other minorities in the hope
