• Sermon - Year C

    Corpus Christi

    Many years ago I read a book. I don’t remember either the author or the title, I barely remember that the main character had travelled in Palestine a dozen years after Jesus’ death trying to meet people who knew Jesus. There is just one thing I really do remember from that book: the explanation of the miracle from today’s gospel.…

  • Sermon - Year C

    The Holy Trinity

    The mystery of our faith which we celebrate today is one of the few rejected almost automatically by people who don’t share the Christian belief. The idea of three persons in one God  is used as “evidence” against faith. At the same time these “prophets of unbelief” produce some scientific theories which are seemingly unbelievable. Is it possible to understand…

  • Sermon - Year C

    Pentecost

    Two weeks ago I was walking in the Cairngorms and I saw a glider towed by a plane. Several hours later when I was driving back home I heard on the radio that the glider had crashed; luckily the pilot had survived and had been rescued by a helicopter. My knowledge about gliding is limited and theoretical; I’ve never flown…

  • Munros - Outdoors

    Braeriach

    I’ve made three attempts to climb this Munro. The last one, on 19 May 2010,  was successful. 1: Starting and finishing point at the car park in Whitewell. From that place, a wide dirt track leads to Loch Eanaich. But I wasn’t going there… 2: Crossroads. I went towards Lairig Ghru along a path running mainly through woodlands. 3: The…