Not Just Being a Bystander

Not Just Being a Bystander

Last week I had the most surreal experience of my life. A musical, based on the memoir of my student days in the 1980s, has been playing at the Lyric Theatre. It is the third of my memoirs to be transformed into a musical, but this time the show includes me meeting my...
Finding Elpis

Finding Elpis

Romans 12:12 “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer.” As I mentioned in my last blog, in retirement I have been writing the history of my previous congregation, First Presbyterian Church, Armagh. After twenty-eight years of caring for...
It is time to say HELLO!

It is time to say HELLO!

It is interesting how unusual or exceptional circumstances can make one acutely aware of things previously taken for granted. The Covid pandemic made us all much more aware of the importance of relationships, or, as we now refer to them, social connections. The...
Remembering Aleksei Navalny

Remembering Aleksei Navalny

1st March 2024. Remember this day. The funeral of Aleksei Navalny in southeast Moscow. I spent some time looking at the BBC coverage of events surrounding the service in the Church of the Icon of Our Lady Quench My Sorrow, and then his burial in Borisovskoye...