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Herald on Sunday letters: The continuing decline in interest in the Christian faith is tragic for humanity I NOTE Neil Mackay’s The Big Read article (“A crisis of faith”, April 4) in which the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt Rev Dr Martin Fair, is reported as maintaining that “Christianity isn’t about those who like to sing hymns on Sunday, it’s about being where people are vulnerable, fragile and broken – and being alongside them.” I read elsewhere that the Archbishop of Canterbury in his Easter message referred to the church getting �...

Pain is a solid motivator for change. Without some pain or unease, we may never change much at all. When there is no pain in our life, we simply go with the flow of our habits – good or bad. It is the usually unexpected upset of pain that causes us to pause, to consider … and in the light of such reflection, to make necessary, even crucial change. ‘Your mother is dying’ A few years back I sat at my mother’s deathbed. Thankfully she recovered, but as I sat grieving over what I was told was inevitable, I experienced considerable existential anxiety.

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1 Timothy 1:15-16 says “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life”. Some have probably read this and think it refers primarily to the author who wrote it, but notice again that it is a “trustworthy saying”. Whenever, Paul says this he says it is a statement that can be applied to all of us. Paul ...

Today the world celebrates, either knowingly or unknowingly, the birth of Jesus Christ. It must be said that he is the most significant and central figure in all of human history. There are other significant figures, but no man has had more influence on the world than Jesus Christ. By casual observance we know this to be true because the world keeps track of its time based off the year he was born. Whether one uses the currently preferred secular delineation of B.C.E (Before Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era), or the old delineation of B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini, which means â...