On our View from Earth blog, on this third Advent Sunday of preparation for Christmas, “Sandra’s Diary” introduces our Advent thoughts for the week.
Andrew Barr reflects on the challenges of Christmas travel.
We bring you part of our Christmas programme on Radio Forth in 2009, with religious leaders mingling with voices from radio presenters of the time.
In the news, a service took place last weekend to mark the eightieth anniversary of the Castlecary Rail Disaster.
The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund has launched a Christmas appeal, highlighting the plight of the victims of civil war in El Salvador. And Pope Francis has been implored to visit the war-torn nation of South Sudan.
Tributes have been paid in the Scottish Episcopal church to the accountant Nigel Cook, who has been described as the pillar of Old St Paul’s church in Edinburgh.
