We have Jeff Bagnall speaking of Advent faith as reflected in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
Andrew Barr muses on how black is Black Friday.
We review a series of books as mirrored in “Life and Work”. And a book “Bread and Wine”.
And Gail has an idea for a campaign about sermons, from Adele to Kierkegaard.
In the news, on his first visit to Africa, Pope Francis spoke off the cuff in Kenya, while criticising land grabs, saying that “corruption is, like sugar, sweet. We like it. It’s easy. Please don’t develop a taste for it. In Uganda, he paid tribute to the Catholic and Anglican martyrs. And in risking his life in the war-torn Central African Republic, he rounded off his appeal for peace and reconciliation both with the Catholic and Muslim population.
A weekend of events celebrated Scotland’s St Andrew and was designed to enable children to know about their patron.
