Inside the fastest growing – and shrinking – churches in the UK spectator.co.uk/article/inside…

🎧 Explore the 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ #SAYaward Longlist ⭐️ Su-a Lee ‘Dialogues' The first SAY Award nomination for Scottish-Korean cellist Su-a Lee, the album was released via Sky Child Records. 👉 bit.ly/3Zv93MN

Well, OK, sure. But the 150,000 people who have arrived from Hong Kong and the £5bn in aid for Ukraine are two reasonably significant data points to the contrary. So, you know, it's complicated.

Bobby and Jack Charlton in the Pub Team Carlsberg ad

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Well deserved - she's the best there is!

Spot on as always from Nick Spencer.

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Perceptive analysis from Dr Liam Fraser on religious decline in Scotland, particularly the Church of Scotland. Religious Decline in the Scottish Census: Four Causes and Five Blessings  missioninscotland.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/rel…

Dying for Beginners | Dr Kathryn Mannix youtu.be/ayMhA1pRLeY?si… via YouTube

I am very happy to announce that The Memory Palace book comes out this November 17th from Random House.

As a Scot, I’m embarrassed by this front page in The National newspaper. It’s pathetic.

A long time ago (as in, August 2016) I reviewed J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” for the Speccie. Here it is, for those curious about Trump’s VP pick. It may provide some insight.

I so am!

As the 2024 Paris Olympic Games draws to a close, Nick Spencer sums up the different ways Olympians have been doing God. 08/08/2024 theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2024/0…

Voices from Gaza, historic city in ruins spectator.co.uk/article/voices…

A Christian revival is under way spectator.co.uk/article/a-chri…

Christmas Eve preparations complete and Tynecastle is all ready for the big game on Thursday. No small job, but hard work and perseverance wins the day HHGH #hmfc

An exchange that makes apparent what so often is occluded: the degree to which many arguments over political values are sublimated theology. The roots of what divides the left from the right invariably turn out to be disagreements over which particular Bible verse to emphasise

Holidays in Scotland are good! #Scotland #isleofrum #eigg #caolila