April 3: Arrived safely at Kirk Yetholm after an epic day's walking up and through the Cheviots. It's been a day of many...
A Pilgrimage to Lindisfarne – Halfway
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A Pilgrimage to Lindisfarne – Harestanes to Kirk Yetholm
April 3: "The purpose of a pilgrimage is about setting aside a long period of time in which the only focus is to be the...
A Pilgrimage to Lindisfarne – Melrose to Jedburgh
Palm Sunday 2: We walked from #Melrose over the Eildons to St Boswells with glimpses of Dryburgh Abbey and a visit to the...
A Pilgrimage to Lindisfarne – Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday: St Cuthbert was Prior first at #Melrose and later at #lindisfarne. He spent much time ministering among the...
A Pilgimage to Lindisfarne – Lanark to Melrose
1 Apr: We travel from Lanark via Biggar and Penicuik to Galashiels, before walking 5 miles along the River Tweed to #Melrose....
A Pilgrimage to Lindisfarne – And so it begins
Rev Liz and Irene H are walking #stcuthbertsway from Melrose to Lindisfarne during Holy Week. You can follow their journey...
Spiritual but not religious
Many in the UK today – many in Lanark – describe themselves as spiritual but not religious. Maybe it’s how you respond when asked about your views. It’s good that many are still open-minded when it comes to the big questions. It shows that culture isn’t satisfied with the message that reality consists only of what can be seen, touched and measured in a science lab.
Tolkien Film Review: Where is God when we suffer?
I was asked recently how I find words to say when someone tells me, as their priest, they’ve just been diagnosed with a...
Church can be boring.
If by ‘church’ we mean standing up and sitting down for an hour, singing a bunch of old songs and listening to a lecture on an...
Symbolism of the Font Cover
The symbolism of the Font Cover Pelican: At the very top is a pelican and its young chicks in its nest. The pelican was...