On our View from Earth blog, we mark Pentecost or Whit Sunday. “Sandra’s Diary” links Pentecost with the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Jeff Bagnall goes back to creation and evolution for the new beginnings of Pentecost. And Gail returns to the new beginnings brought about by Pentecost. In the news, in addition to the horror of the suicide bombing in Manchester and its impact on Scotland, Christian churches have sent their support and sympathy to the Coptic church in Egypt after thirty young people on pilgrimage to a monastery were dragged from the bus and shot by Islamist terrorists. One of the world’s leading Muslim scholars, a Prince from Jordan told the Assembly that terrorist propaganda and attacks such as in Manchester would succeed in making Muslims “even more hated than they currently are by most of the world”.
