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In some parts of the world absolute poverty is obvious, you see it on the streets as you walk. In Scotland poverty is a complicated issue, and not always visible. This organisation lives out it’s faith through helping people overcome poverty related issues. An important first step is to become aware of what is actually […]
The theme for the 6pm service last Sunday was forgiveness (12th of Feb). Kate talked about the woman who poured perfume on Jesus feet, and the issues of shame, guilt, forgiveness, and Love which that story involves. It is often too easy to focus on a simple dynamic of a judge giving forgiveness to someone […]
The experience of being challenged and moved by experiences including love, beauty, goodness, joy, compassion, injustice, evil, suffering, death.
The sentiment that humans are more than their physical elements. Some experiences are special. Life is more than just it’s physical components. There can be moments where we sense something that can be described as sublime. Mystics experience transcendence, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to explain it in a way which […]
The ability to make connections or to see potential patterns in one’s life which give it meaning.
Attitudes and feelings about what is really important, what really matters.
Experiences of awe, wonder and mystery about the natural world. Often also sensed when contemplating human achievement and for some divinity.
Meet outside Crichton chapel at 2pm on January the 15th, 2023 “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely […]
Sensing a changed quality in awareness. Often described as the feeling of being ‘at one’ with nature, oneself and others. We often slip quickly into thinking about ‘things’, or thinking about or experience of things. #SensingAwareness is more about being in a state of awareness of direct experience, mindfulness. The Divine in the world, creating […]
It is the eve before the new year starts! Well, that is, before the calendar year we use in Scotland starts. The financial year, the academic year, and the agricultural years have different starts. As do the multiple liturgical years observed by people living and settled in Scotland. There is also the lunar year which […]