Having noticed the degradation of my eyesight I prayed (that’s what you do…) and gave serious consideration to Jesus’s rhetorical question in today’s gospel: ‘Can one blind man guide another?’ As my prayer didn’t seem to be working, I went to Specsavers where I had my eyes tested and consequently got new glasses. My gaze is so sharp now that…

To say that today’s gospel is impossibly challenging would be a massive understatement. Taken literally it’s a recipe for disaster because it would be exposing oneself to exploitation and abuse. And because very few people – if anyone – wants to willingly be exploited or abused, this passage of the gospel is effectively dismissed as undoable, the impractical remarks of…

We have just started to see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel only to find that a cost-of-living crisis is fast approaching. We seem to go out of the frying pan into the fire, driven by skyrocketing gas prices and inflation gathering momentum. Both Scottish and British governments have come up with their respective plans on how…

It’s been nearly two years since the pandemic started to have had an impact on our lives, on every level and in virtually every aspect of them. This fact, combined with the impression of now emerging from it all, has created a fertile ground for various surveys and studies. My perception is probably skewed by my addiction to rather old-fashioned…

Recently Pope Francis caused some furore with an off the cuff opinion regarding children and pets. I was rather surprised by how many professional commentators talked or wrote about it. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been because I once caused quite a stir when I referred to my dog in my sermon; in fact, it was one of precious few times…