Dec 7, 2023 | QPUpdate, The Thrill of Hope
“Hope springs eternal in the human heart” claimed Alexander Pope in his poem “An Essay on Man”. These days that spring looks pretty worn and wound down. “Resilience”, that much-vaunted quality we are all encouraged to develop in the face of life’s headwinds and...
Nov 30, 2023 | Hope Over Fear, QPUpdate
Congratulations! You will, by this Sunday, have made it to the end of the book of Revelation as we consider the final chapter of the book, chapter 22. September 10th, when we started this series on Revelation seems a long time ago and we’ve covered a lot of ground...
Nov 23, 2023 | Hope Over Fear, QPUpdate
The future struck me forcibly in a coffee shop in Pollokshields eighteen months ago. It happened when my very clever university friend was regaling me with his early-retirement PhD project. Artificial intelligence, he said, is accelerating at such a pace that we will...
Nov 16, 2023 | Hope Over Fear, QPUpdate
Hard to believe, but my six-week Sabbatical has come to an end. The last few weeks have been a lovely mix of relaxation, refreshing and strengthening relationships. Thank you to everyone who made it possible for me to take this opportunity. Special mention to Helen...
Nov 9, 2023 | Hope Over Fear, QPUpdate
All the Light We Cannot See is the latest Netflix binge-watch chez Macaulay. It’s a beautifully rendered series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Anthony Doerr and my cultural recommendation of the week! It tells the story of a blind French girl and a German...
Nov 2, 2023 | Hope Over Fear, QPUpdate
So, what was your street like on Tuesday evening? I expected mine to look like a scene from Revelation with kids dressed up in various costumes as their parents took them out guising. But I only saw one group, with an adult dressed as “the grim reaper” replete with...
Oct 26, 2023 | Hope Over Fear, QPUpdate
Revelation, as you may have noticed, is choc-a-bloc with some very strange images. John is asked, “What do you see?” Often Christians see things that are not there in the bible, make connections that don’t exist and use them to justify things that are morally...
Oct 19, 2023 | Hope Over Fear, QPUpdate
We humans are incurably curious. We ask the big questions about our existence: how come things exist at all? How did we get here? What are we for? Many people believe science has debunked faith as the answer to these fundamental questions of our existence. Yet, today,...
Oct 12, 2023 | Hope Over Fear, QPUpdate
On Saturday morning 7th October, the terrorist group Hamas breached the border encompassing the Palestinian territory of Gaza. What followed was unspeakable in its savagery. In a rain of terror paragliders with machine guns descended on a desert rave, Jewish families...
Oct 5, 2023 | Hope Over Fear, QPUpdate
The Rapture was Clyde-built! Yes, the west of Scotland’s, or more precisely Port Glasgow’s, foremost contribution to the world of theology, is the widespread belief that Christians will be extracted from the world ahead of a great tribulation. The notion that flowed...
