Ross Moughtin
A question of competence
When it comes down to it, it’s a question of competence. Can those we elect actually do the job? Otherwise, it can all end in tears....
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Ross Moughtin
May 17
When we see a warning sign
The warning was clear enough, even so they kept coming. And coming, one after another - until they had no choice but to turn around at...
Ross Moughtin
May 10
In the league which truly counts
So there we were on the Jungfraujoch, in conversation with a family from Malaysia. And then the inevitable question: “And where are you...
Ross Moughtin
May 3
When God moves mountains, big ones.
Liebe Leute! So our destination this morning is the highest railway station in Switzerland and in Europe, some 3,454 metres above sea...
Ross Moughtin
Apr 26
When God tells us to sit up straight
Rather than just stay and watch, I decided to join in, I knew it was going to be easy-peasy. After all, I’ve been running regularly now...
Ross Moughtin
Apr 19
So what on earth is happening here?
One of the key events in world history, 8th November 1519, as conquistador Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlan, the splendid capital of...
Ross Moughtin
Apr 12
When we wish we had never been born
Jeremy Paxman: Parkinson's 'makes you wish you hadn't been born' This headline in this morning’s BBC news website caught my eye, not...
Ross Moughtin
Apr 5
When we would glimpse heaven
Heaven is not what you think. Certainly not harp-strumming angels, with little lambs cared for by a carefully coiffured, blue-eyed...
Ross Moughtin
Mar 29
When we would run towards danger
The young firefighter, open-eyed and apprehensive, runs up the stairwell as everyone else runs down. Within minutes the North Tower is...
Ross Moughtin
Mar 22
The loneliness caused by corridors
Will there be corridors in God’s new heaven and earth, in his glorious future? Probably not. Personally I blame John Thorpe who in 1597...
Ross Moughtin
Mar 15
How the Bible opens with a shock
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” So begins the Bible, with Genesis 1:1. “When I think there was a day when a...
Ross Moughtin
Mar 8
To find our way around God's city
“Of course, you will have to forget everything you have learned so far!” It’s October, 1967 and I am having my first supervision with our...
Ross Moughtin
Mar 1
We need to be vigilant, not vigilantes.
So firebrand George Galloway, of the Workers Party, easily wins Rochdale with 39.7% of the vote after a divisive and controversial...
Ross Moughtin
Feb 23
We are reversing into an AI jungle
I was totally flummoxed. No way could I work it out. Why do I have a moving image from about five metres above my car? This Tuesday I...
Ross Moughtin
Feb 16
We are invited to the ultimate in parties
"It was just brilliant," Nisha Capper tells Newsbeat. "I never thought I'd be partying in the cathedral. Halfway through the night, I was...
Ross Moughtin
Feb 9
When you speak to 4.1 billion people
Strangely I found myself seated in the very same place occupied by Prince Harry just nine months previous, three rows back and towards...
Ross Moughtin
Feb 2
When we would pack it all in
“I can’t put on a brave face any longer. I want to give up.” She continues: “How wonderful it would be to rest both my shoulders and my...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 26
To know Christ’s peace is a spiritual battle
¡Hola! Did you know that going on holiday represents 13 points on the Holmes and Rahe stress scale? Okay, that’s much less than hassle...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 19
How to shake the dust from your feet
So Jesus sends his disciples on their first mission. Lesson #1 – learn how to fail. Of course we are all wary of failure, to think that...
Ross Moughtin
Jan 12
How to keep going, despite everything.
“This is what they do every time and that is what they are going to do now, but this isn’t going away because we have almost 1,000 pages...
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