I was in a lift with another patient in the Beatson Cancer Centre.   He looked to be in his early twenties and the cancer was wringing him...

  There have been a number of celebrities who have been willing to speak publicly about their personal experience of cancer, how they coped ...

  It was 24 December 1988 and my first Watchnight Service as minister of St Paul’s.     It was something I had looked forward to.     A guar...

  Detective Inspector John Rebus is days away from retirement after more than thirty years as a police officer.     But rather than just see...

It wasn’t a day loaded with interest and incident.    Dropped off by my chauffeuse for an early appointment at the Beatson, a train from Hyn...

  I once attended a Presbytery meeting in which a retired minister was congratulate d on the fiftieth anniversary of his Ordination.   He wa...

  We call it Holy Week but for most parishes in the Church of Scotland it is Holy Two Days: Thursday when the Lord's Supper was institut...