Signal and Noise

Signal and Noise

Oct 23, 2025 | News, The Spirit

It was a strange concrete and steel ruin that caught my attention. When I climbed up to look closer, I found it to be the remains of a WW2 gun emplacement, guarding the entrance to the Forth estuary. It encircled a modern communications tower. What really grabbed my...
Signal and Noise

Worst Statue in Scotland?

Oct 15, 2025 | QPUpdate

Edinburgh is a great place to visit, even this boy from Glasgow has to admit our neighbour to the east is rather cool. It boasts fine architecture, and magnificent museums, but also, in my opinion, one of the worst sculpted statues in Scotland. The statue in question...
Signal and Noise

Your Special Contribution

Oct 9, 2025 | QPUpdate, The Spirit

Heard the story about the animal school? It goes like this. Once upon a time, the animals agreed to do something to solve the world’s problems. So, they began an education project. Their school would have a full curriculum of running, climbing, swimming and flying....

Beholding and Becoming

Oct 2, 2025 | QPUpdate, The Spirit

There was a vending machine in the monastery. Slot your cash in and out drops the answer to your physical needs: water, sparkling or still, chocolate and snacks. Having just walked over the Pyrenees from France to Spain for 26km it was an appealing vision to me. But...

Error 501?

Sep 25, 2025 | QPUpdate, The Spirit

Error 501. “No ignition.” The code flashed at me from our broken-down gas boiler on Monday night. The coldest night of the year, so far: no heat and no hot water! Thankfully, we have a great boiler maintenance guy who had the issue fixed by lunchtime Tuesday (I can...

Speaking Grace

Sep 18, 2025 | News, QPUpdate, Teaching series, The Spirit

  “Careless talk costs lives.” So said the British propaganda machine during World War two.  So it remains. Acrimonious public debate, online algorithms amplifying polarising views are all contributing to a febrile culture of confrontation between numerous...
Father, Son and Holy who?

Father, Son and Holy who?

Sep 11, 2025 | QPUpdate, The Spirit

I believe one of the biggest misconceptions around the Holy Spirit is… that He operates on His own! Holy Spirit reflections The Bible shows us the inseparable operations of God, i.e. Father, Son and Holy Spirit at work every time God does something or moves. (Malachi...
Father, Son and Holy who?

Looking for something on TV

Sep 4, 2025 | News

I was recently channel-hopping, looking for something to watch on TV, and stumbled across the climate disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow. It’s not a great movie, but it was better than anything else which was on “council telly” (a Glasgow phrase for terrestrial...
Thank you

Thank you

Aug 28, 2025 | QPUpdate

“Remember to say thanks” is a childhood maxim that adults struggle to apply. Scripture commands us to give thanks: to enter worship with “thanksgiving” (Psalm 100:1-5), to give thanks to God at all times and in all circumstances (1Thessalonians 5:18) and to receive...
Quiet Revival – what’s going on?

Quiet Revival – what’s going on?

Aug 21, 2025 | Partners and Parables, QPUpdate

Five hundred people from around 45 churches packed in to our “Quiet Revival – what’s going on?” event on Sunday evening. There is clearly a huge appetite to explore and respond to the increasing evidence of an upturn in people investigating Christianity in the...