Even in everyday language the word ‘world’ can be confusing. We use it of course to describe the planet we inhabit in a literal sense. But we also use it in other ways. For instance we talk about the world of commerce or the world of show business to name but two. Continue Reading
I stood chatting conversationally with the new minister who had recently arrived in the Parish of a community on the Northwest coast of Scotland. I was not a member of his church – but what is termed in Scotland an ‘Adherent’ – in other words I attended the church in question as regularly as I could. Continue Reading