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IT was in this week of the year 563 that a hugely important development in the history of Scotland took place on the island of Iona. On the date traditionally held to be May 12, 563, St Columba and 12 companions from Ireland arrived on Iona. At that time only the Kingdom of Dalriada in what is now Argyll and the very southern regions of what is now Dumfries and Galloway were Christian. By the time Columba died in 597, most of the Scottish mainland was Christian, and the Scots – descendants of immigrants from Ireland – and the Picts were united by religion in what historians call the Celtic Church.
Why are healthcare workers permitted to refuse the vaccine and then continue to have contact with patients?
I AM baffled about the many ridiculous reasons why people are reluctant to take the Covid vaccine. It would be easy to say that for most people the reluctance is based on ignorance of the facts. However, the people who astonish me the most are the healthcare workers, who you would think would have no doubts about the efficacy of the vaccines. This week, I heard about one nurse from Dundee who refuses the vaccine because she is allergic to kiwi fruit. To make matters worse, her daughter, who works in a care home, refuses the vaccine because she claims to be allergic to bananas.
Monk in the marketplace publishes his story Ray Simpson, the founding pastor of the ecumenical church in Bowthorpe, has published an autobiography called Monk in the Marketplace. The book begins with his war-time childhood and then maps his early ministry assignments and his calling to be a pastor, which became reality in the ‘divine experiment’ of Bowthorpe.
John Drake from YMCA and
Paul Hodgson from the Church on the Way, who both climbed the haystack in the centre of Bowthorpe to pray over what would become the site of the new church. Bowthorpe Church was launch in a packed village hall during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in January 1978. Ray Simpson was commissioned by the Anglicans, Baptists, Catholics, Methodists, Quakers and United Reformed churches, accompanied by the Salvation Army Band, with the Pentecostal and Community Church leaders offering the right hand of fellowship, ‘to establish one family of Christians for one neighbourho
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