Dear friends, Two Christian colleagues were travelling together on a very long journey. They made great travelling companions, for as one of them remarked, ‘We discussed everything you could think of. We agreed on the great things, but we did not...
Read More27 September 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, I often watch programmes on television about finding new homes either in this country or abroad. It is always interesting to hear and see what people think will make an ideal home for them and their family. But when the participants...
Read More23 August 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, I guess at least some of you will remember the old advert that said ‘Do you love someone enough to give them your last Rolo? Of course, the implication was that Rolo was so delicious that you wouldn’t want to give the last one away...
Read More16 August 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, It was the minister and hymn-writer John Bell who said that most people know what theology they do know from the hymns they sing. And it is always interesting when, at the end of the service, people say to me ‘You had my favourite...
Read More9 August 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, Victor Borge once told a friend that he could tell the time by his piano. His friend found that hard to believe, so Borge volunteered to demonstrate. He pounded out a crashing march on the piano and immediately there came a banging...
Read More2 August 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, Being brought up in the Manse brings with it many advantages as well as some disadvantages. One of the disadvantages was that my father was always out, at meetings or visiting. As a curious child I would often ask him where he had...
Read More26 July 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev marion Paton
Dear Friends, The story is told of a small town that was proposed for the site of great hydro-electric plant. A dam would be built across the river and the town would be submerged. When the project was announced, the people were given many months...
Read More28 June 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear friends, I know I said that there wouldn’t be a letter for the next few weeks, but I simply had to write to say thank you for the wonderful surprise last Sunday. The cake was so unexpected and of course, so clever. And it was delicious...
Read More21 June 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, When most of us were children, Father’s Day was not celebrated in the UK, and I can remember my father saying in the early 1970s that it was an American commercial invention, just another way to part people from their cash...
Read More14 June 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, Leonardo da Vinci had started work on a large canvas in his study. For a while he worked at it – choosing the subject, planning the perspective, sketching the outline, applying the colours with his own inimitable genius. Then...
Read More7 June 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, As you will be aware, the congregation that is made up of Boarhills, Dunino and St Andrews: Holy Trinity is a very busy one. As well as our regular acts of worship, and the weddings and funerals that take place, and concerts and...
Read More31 May 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, As Thursday approaches, there are many challenges that have to be met in Boarhills, Dunino and St Andrews Holy Trinity each week. Because we send out our services in print to all parts of the world, (quite literally) and because all...
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