After a week of snow, my city of Dundee returns to comparative warmth. This morning’s blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news: Berlusconi falls alseep at Holocaust memorial and states that Mussolini did “some good things.” Galatians 1:1-17 THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE Galatians Salutation 1Paul […]

This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readngs along with a headline from world news: GAS PLANT HOSTAGES SPEAK OF TRAUMATIC DAYS Mark 5:1-20 Jesus Heals the Gerasene Demoniac 5They came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes.*2And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a […]

This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news: SLAVE LABOUR AMONGST MIGRANT WORKERS IN UK Ephesians 6:1-9 Children and Parents 6Children, obey your parents in the Lord,* for this is right.2‘Honour your father and mother’—this is the first commandment with a promise:3‘so that it may be […]

This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news: North Korea to gain power by testing nuke Mark 4:21-34 A Lamp under a Bushel Basket 21 He said to them, ‘Is a lamp brought in to be put under the bushel basket, or under the bed, and […]

This blog provides a mediation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news Japanese minister says old people a burden on state Ephesians 5:1-14 51Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,2and live in love, as Christ loved us* and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. […]

Today’s blog uses the Episcopal daily reading along with a headline from world news 60YEARS OF EUROPEAN UNION Mark 3:19-35 Then he went home;20and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.21When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, ‘He has gone out of […]

Today’s blog, in the wake of the Jihadist murders in Algeria, provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news. PRO GUN PROTESTS UN USA  Ephesians 4:1-16 Unity in the Body of Christ 4I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling […]

Today this blog provides a meditation on one of the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news: Ultra Orthodox Jews demand no surrender of illegal settlements Ephesians 3:14-21 Prayer for the Readers 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,*15from whom every family* in heaven and on earth takes […]

Today’s blog uses the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news: HOSTAGES MURDERED BY TERRORISTS AT GAS FACILITY EPHESIANS 3: 1-11 This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for* Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles—2for surely you have already heard of the commission of God’s grace that was […]

Today the blog looks at two great bible passages from the Episcopal lectionary, along with a headline from world news: A house in space: inflatable dwelling to be tested Ephesians 2:11-22 One in Christ 11 So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth,* called ‘the uncircumcision’ by those who are called ‘the circumcision’—a […]