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Peter Nimmo
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Early-retired #Church of #Scotland #minister. Graduate of #Glasgow University and #Princeton Seminary- #Fulbright alumnus. Registered same-sex marriage celebrant. Occasional reposts or links in #German. I won't follow you, or let you follow me, if you don't have a description. Also on Bluesky: @peternimmo.bsky.social #theology #Christianity #liturgy #politics #preaching #religion #ChurchOfScotland #Presbyterian #Reformed #faith

nostr:npub18ljjwuh8vt0lrh3fe3vsefddt40u297gtsk3d4v4ywhjnvms9zfqy480hq we once served black pudding (which I love) to my visiting Canadian cousin. He was really enjoying it until we told him what it's made of!

Replying to Avatar Richard Littler

nostr:npub1ex328w5w0hjweznw8t6f9epk5w5xy4ak6kzyc7y93lfjtelxuymsk9c58j Yes, that's very true. I saw a documentary and in it many US professing evangelicals didn't know much about the bible's contents or the faith when interviewed. Political/cultural/class Christians perhaps, rather than genuinely religious.

nostr:npub1y62j5jea6kwmvzar07tk5arx8m8hph7gxxp5tr9f4ed0xg7ssy3sg069v6 again, without minimising the destructive role of religion- I do worry that many critics of religion are a bit blinded to those other factors. Britain, for example, is very secular, yet we got Brexit. Small towns in eastern Germany have been post religious for nearly a century now, yet the AfD is doing well there

nostr:npub12u5cyzzxp2mz3r0963e7j46ayce3puxtcxvwt6uzffpwf4l2razswpu6aa it strikes me as cruel to have pranked Dowding (who was born in Moffat). He was a sorry figure in later life. He dreamed about the "boys" who had died in the Battle of Britain and became a Spiritualist- presumably a response to the trauma and stress of 1940

nostr:npub1f35pcr9nxqu4m6f6vcl9amft00zkxvfjyhm24xj0uud7cy3nrw4qmkr62u I've read a lot from and about Moore, and he's not wrong about US evangelism

Replying to Avatar Peter Nimmo

nostr:npub1tpdrwck9a8vqgka9lnl33awyx0m5klfeqk5m74hqulu3exdhq9sqej3r9c something like that.

I used to live near the site of the Battle of Culloden (1746), which ended the second Jacobite rebellion. Because there are grave markers and a monument, it's important to a lot of people. There's an excellent exhibition and museum nowadays, but there's really not much to see on the actual battlefield. If people came to stay with us, it wasn't my first choice to visit

nostr:npub1tpdrwck9a8vqgka9lnl33awyx0m5klfeqk5m74hqulu3exdhq9sqej3r9c on the other hand, I remember seeing tenement blocks near where I lived in Clydeside which had abrupt gaps- you could see where people's fireplaces had been. It was a visceral reminder of the German bombing of the area in 1941 (which my grandparents remembered)

nostr:npub1tpdrwck9a8vqgka9lnl33awyx0m5klfeqk5m74hqulu3exdhq9sqej3r9c something like that.

I used to live near the site of the Battle of Culloden (1746), which ended the second Jacobite rebellion. Because there are grave markers and a monument, it's important to a lot of people. There's an excellent exhibition and museum nowadays, but there's really not much to see on the actual battlefield. If people came to stay with us, it wasn't my first choice to visit

What's replacing traditional #Christianity in the #West? Lots of other beliefs, including, surprisingly, #witchcraft (which is perhaps linked to the #church's hypocrisy on #sex and #gender)

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/religion/2023/08/strongfaith-faithless-age-strong

nostr:npub1rkjpxkg78c7pqdzvlgx0w6uw0puccz44gwr80v6lem0kdstgn64shjufed nah, it's pointless. Get the tech guys into improving public transport