Visit to the diocese by the Bishop of Zanzibar
Bishop Michael Hafidh of Zanzibar and their Diocesan Secretary General, Reverend Nuhu Sallanya, will be visiting the diocese from the 17th to the 20th of February 2015. The itinerary for the visit is: Tuesday 17th February (Shrove Tuesday) Lunchtime: Meeting the Bishop and Diocesan Officers 5.30pm Evensong in the Cathedral Evening – after service fund raising […]
Reverend Terry Taggart licensed to St Peter’s Stornoway
Terry Taggart was licensed (23rd January 2015) as the new priest for St Peter’s Stornoway and St Moluag’s Eoropaidh. Bishop Kevin celebrated at the eucharist to start Terry’s ministry, and representatives from St Peter’s, the diocese and other […]
DIOCESAN SYNOD 2015 – Notice to Members
Notice is hereby given that the Diocesan Synod will be constituted on Tuesday 10th March 2015 at the Eucharist in St John’s Cathedral, Oban at 5.45pm. The business meeting will begin with coffee at 9.00am on Wednesday, 11th March in the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage PA37 1QA. Please note the new venue. The wording […]
My rash promise
Last week, I said I would offer my answer to ‘what keeps you following Jesus?’ That was rash! (I notice nobody else has taken up the challenge!) The first rather simplistic answer is ‘because I promised to follow’. This might not seem very informed; after all just because I undertake to do something doesn’t in […]
‘The Gospel – take it or leave it’
Marion Mackay from St Peter’s Stornoway shared a link this morning which provides considerable food for thought. Diocesan ‘Facebookers’ will have come across it but it’s worth relaying here. The historian A.N. Wilson writes in the Telegraph about the state of Christianity in the world today. He asks how we can interpret phenomena such as […]
Mary Slessor
The blog returns after rather a lengthy seasonal break! Mary Slessor’s name is familiar to me, brought up as I was in the Church of Scotland. We heard about her in Sunday School and I think she was one of the ‘heroines’ featured on the back page of the girls’ comic I read. ‘Girl’ was […]
