Watch Alan Torrance kindling the #Beltane fire today at the GalGael Trust Trust in Govan.

Celebrations will extend tomorrow night (Thursday) at our weekly community meal from 6 pm, 15 Fairley St, with sharing on Beltane as symbolic purification in Gaelic tradition. All welcome.

Time to share again this piece - 'Political Theology and Public Service'.

(Bella Caledonia was not 100% at ease running it - but as both Humza Yousaf and Kate Forbes MSP had religious backgrounds, it did so out of respect for the spectrum of debate.)
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/02/21/pol…

I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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#April sees the Feast of the martyrdom of St Donnan of Eigg, on 17 April. Early medieval Iona seems to have had multiple feast-days celebrating martyrs, and so our thoughts have turned to Port nam Mairtir for the #nameofthemonth : iona-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/names-of-the-m…

Public service reminder to folk commenting on Kate Forbes - Free Church positions on moral questions are almost always identical to official Roman Catholic positions (on contraception/divorce more liberal) so think before writing something about FC you wouldn’t write about RC?

ICYMI - as far as #CommunityDevelopment goes - Eigg are amazing. So pleased reading about their celebration today in the P&J.

Well done. What an inspiration!

New Croagh Patrick pilgrim path to open after three years joe.ie/news/new-croag…

It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

- J. Robert…

I’ll be on Radio Scotland’s Thought for the Day at the back of 0720 (Tuesday), on Humza’s resignation and the upheaval in politics, #Beltane fires of purification, and some meanings of May Day for workers who rebuild. Listen on the wireless or online here. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…

Festival of St Bridget on Barra

🗞️ Leo tells us what's #InThePressF24 today ⤵️

➖ The ICC could be preparing an arrest warrant for PM Netanyahu.
➖ Pro-Palestinian protests continue at universities in the US and France.
➖ Iraqi TikTok superstar is murdered outside her home

There’s a metaphor for social change and influence in this. You have to try and strike a note that chimes.

It’s here! My very talented friend Jen Stout has written a book. It’s an account of her journey as a freelance reporter in Ukraine, telling the stories of people living through Russia’s war.

This is the best short summary of the SNP's trajectory and current situation that I have yet seen. Gets it 100% right.

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“They will be immediately transferred to detention centres, which have already been prepared for the operation, and held to be put on later flights to Rwanda. Others identified for these flights are already being held.”

Horrific theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

How a scythe is used to harvest crops or low long grass