What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This was the question facing the author when, in 2003, he returned home to Scotland from a few days' work in London. He has not seen them since. This title presents his personal tale of sudden loss and the author's attempts to find his sons.
Scottish entrepreneurs aimed to cut a road across the infested swamps of Panama's Darien peninsula. In The Rising Sun, a young Scot, Roderick Mackenzie, describes the horrors and difficulties the crew of one boat faced when they arrived there.
Just down from Cambridge in the summer of 1937, Sally Marsden contemplates her future without enthusiasm. So many have assumed she will marry Hugh Jerrold it is, practically, an engagement. When Hugh returns from his diplomatic posting to China there will be a wedding and a thoroughly respectable settling down. But before submitting to the strictures of upper-middle-class life, Sally embarks on one last adventure travelling to China herself, where she will spend the winter before returning with Hugh. The Sino-Japanese war begins shortly after Sally's arrival and a disastrous miscalculation separates her from Hugh and leaves her trapped in Nanking, one of two dozen Europeans and Americans to witness the capture and sack of the city by the Japanese Imperial Army. The experience is shared with Peter Moss, an American photo-journalist and friend of Hugh. Bystanders in a racial war, Sally and Peter emerge physically unscathed but utterly changed, and all their attempts to carry on as before quickly founder.
Focusing on practical application, this workbook serves as an accessible guide to the Panel on Doctrine's Report on the Interpretation of Scripture. It provides readers with tools to explore and apply biblical teachings in their everyday lives, making Scripture more relatable and understandable.
The Church of Scotland Yearbook, commonly referred to as the Red Book, serves as an annual compilation of vital statistical data for the Church of Scotland. It includes comprehensive contact information for ministers, church offices, and clerks, alongside detailed congregational statistics for each parish. Key data points encompass the number of communicants, elders, Guild membership, parish income, and the youth demographic under eighteen, making it an essential resource for church administration and community engagement.
Assist Our Song combines accessible teaching about the theology and shape of worship with essential information about the forms of music used, including congregational hymns, songs, canticles and psalm chant, and music performed by choirs and musicians. It explores the range of resources available, how to extend repertoire, blending the old with the new, changing patterns of church life, and other practical issues. Its aims are the heightening of the profile of music within the church, increasing the skills and understanding on the part of musicians and choirs, assisting leaders of worship and empowering congregations to see themselves also as ‘ministers of music’ It offers practical assistance for the ‘delivery’ of music – choosing music, making the most of choirs and working with musicians. It will be welcomed by all who lead, provide or curate music in worship, as well as clergy and ordinands who lack musical expertise or confidence.