Monday 29 March “As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. They came to a place called Golgotha (which means ‘the place of the skull’). There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to […]

Palm Sunday                   There is a hymn by John Bell that begins: “Oh where are you going, and can I come with you,”   Travelling through Holy Week we are joining Jesus on the journey that began with cheers and shouts of joy, went through a whole range of emotions including deepest grief, and ended

27 Tomorrow will be the first Sunday this year when we will be able to gather in a church building for worship. It will be good to be together again – even if we are 2m away from each other. The usual requirements for physical distancing, hand-sanitising, wearing face coverings and keeping the building ventilated

26 Today is the 650th anniversary of the coronation of Robert II, the first of the Stewart/Stuart kings of Scots. Did you already know that, or is it your ‘useless bit of information for the day’? Each day we encounter all sorts of new bits of information – from talking with people, by reading, by

25 I spotted a headline for a comment section in one newspaper this morning saying, ‘The PM shouldn’t be embarrassed to say greed is good’. I haven’t read the article, and so cannot comment on the arguments raised in it, but it maybe encourages us to think about values and value-systems in our 2020s world.

It is our intention to re-open the church buildings for worship on Palm Sunday, 28 March, at 10.30am. The service will be recorded in Riverside and streamed live to St Andrew’s and West Kirk, as well as the internet. Arrangements will be as in Autumn 2020 (face coverings, physical distancing, contact details, music but no

24 The Prime Minister reportedly said something in a private Zoom meeting, which he hurriedly retracted as being open to other interpretations, but somehow the story ‘got out’. How often have we said something that we wish we’d phrased differently, or not said at all? Years of hard work creating a relationship can be undone