Dear Friends, Almost forty years ago, when I was a student for the ministry, I worked with a wonderful minister who used to say ’Why use your own brain when you can use one that belongs to someone else?’ In saying this, he was encouraging me to...
Read More8 March 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends, Some of you may remember, during the COVID Lockdowns, when we could not meet in person, that we began sending out a weekly worship service by email, together with a pastoral letter. These mailings still continue. They are available...
Read More15 February 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,I guess many of you, like me, have been watching the Winter Olympics. Although I have never skied or skated I love to see others doing it and am always amazed at the bravery and the skill and discipline that these athletes...
Read More8 February 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,On my bookshelf I have a book entitled ‘How to read a church’. It is full of fascinating facts and figures about architecture and the significance and use of various pieces of church furnishing. Like many people, I enjoy visiting...
Read More1 February 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,Technology! I know that modern technology has many positive uses, and I certainly couldn’t manage without the technological advances in communication that have taken place in the last few decades. But it does have its drawbacks too...
Read More11 January 2026: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,Earlier today, whilst speaking with a friend, we fell to talking about a mutual friend, now deceased. The lady was a remarkable woman who was completely blind and yet knew Dundee so well that when I took her anywhere in the car and...
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