Stuff

1. Read a proper blog. See the Moderator’s Diary for reports of GAC | BDC | GDC | BAC. And a visit to the Robert Hanna that wasn’t at camp! “Nice to have a McCullough contributing something useful online!!!” – PL

2. Gareth has 10 concert videos up so far, more to come:


You sortof need to see the other video they showed along with it!


The other mastermind round

3. BBC Producer Bert Tosh on ‘Does the hymn have a future?’ (via jmark)

“I might mention in passing the practice of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, one of Ireland’s smaller denominations with about 3,000 members. They’re sometimes known as Covenanters, which suggests their Scots antecendence. What is distinctive about their worship is that they sing metrical psalms only and without accompaniment, like some of the smaller Scottish Presbyterian churches. They have broadened their repertoire from the 1650 Psalter, but what has struck me when I’ve produced one of their services (there weren’t any in the period I’ve been looking at) is that you get a congregation of all ages from eight to eighty singing their psalms tunefully and enthusiastically in four-part harmony. I look around and I think, this shouldn’t be happening: teenagers singing 350 year old words to very four-square tunes. But it is…

4. Recognise anyone in the new Stran prospectus?

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Incidentally, the roadworks in Ballykelly keep you waiting longer than any other roadworks in the history of the world!!

5. Sarah Warnock in the Edinburgh Evening News:

Sarah Warnock, 23, has been attending St Columba’s for five years. She says: “For me, Sundays are special. It’s the one day on which you can completely rest in today’s crazy world.”

Her Sundays consist of a morning service at 11.20am, followed by lunch with members of the congregation, which can mean anything from 50 fellow diners in the church hall to a meal at another student’s flat for four or five.

She says: “It really does turn into a family. I have never once had a Sunday lunch on my own since I came to Edinburgh.” she says.

Sarah deliberately avoids studying on a Sunday, and says as an architecture student at Edinburgh University that’s not always been easy – “Especially when the pressure is on and I know other people are in the studio working but I do find that taking that day sets me up for the rest of the week.”