Posts Tagged ‘scotland’
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Cardinal Keith O’Brien leaves Scotland under Vatican pressure
The Vatican on Wednesday (May 15) said that Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien will do penance in an undisclosed location outside of his country following his resignation in February amid reports that he had made sexual advances t...
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Word from Scotland: Leaders lead for good or for Ill
We are in John Chapter 21, where Peter and six others return north to the Galilee and go out fishing. Leaders lead positively or negatively. We sometimes do not recognize this fact.
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Dr. Livingstone, I presume? Missionary icon turns 200
When journalist Henry Morton Stanley found the world’s most famous missionary barely alive at the tiny village of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on Nov. 10, 1871, he gave the English language one of its most famous intr...
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Word from Scotland: Do not be missing when the fellowship is meeting
We are in John Chapter 20 and we have been reading of the risen and living Jesus meeting with His disciples in the Upper Room on Resurrection Evening.
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Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien admits to sexual conduct
Days after pulling out of the conclave to elect the next pope and vowing to fight the charges against him, disgraced Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien admitted Sunday (March 3) to inappropriate sexual conduct.
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Venting and vetting: The brutal side of papal politics
(RNS) If you want a crash course on how papal politics really works, look no further than the saga of Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
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Word from Scotland: Hearts are the same today as they were then
We are reading and studying in John Chapter 18 and verses 28 to 40. There were so many comings and going. What all happened between Gethsemane and Calvary? Jesus Christ was subjected to what was nothing other than a double trial.
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Word from Scotland: There are times when we may have to shed tears
We are in John Chapter 18, where a gang appears at the Garden of Gethsemane and Jesus Christ is arrested, then questioned and then insultingly struck on the face.
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Word from Scotland: The consequences of intense, intimate prayer
We are in the concluding verses of John Chapter 17, where Jesus Christ is praying in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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Word from Scotland: 1 holy catholic and apostolic church
At the beginning, and for a good number of years, there was one holy catholic Church and it was powerful and influential, as Peter and John, and Paul and Silas and Timothy, travelled and preached and taught. So it will be again...