He is the leader of over one hundred thriving underground churches in China. He writes of his desire to see them grow further up and further on. He writes of his desire to see his family learn the meaning of persecution, not so that they can gain the respect or support of westerners, but so that they can know more clearly what it is to be called a Christian.

As a celtic music-lover, I couldn’t help but enjoy myself as I became better acquainted with every song. I’m persuaded that whoever takes pleasure in folk, Scottish, or celtic music in general will find some enjoyment in what this album has to offer.

Man, struggling forward, up from the mires of his first path. On he struggles, carrying his dirtied light as a guide.

“Arise, Pendragon. Take your sword and walk the straight path.”

Though diverse and ranging in style and composition, the musical quality of Time and Tide is uniformly superb. Battlefield Band has once again brought us beautiful, lively music from the leading edge of Scottish traditional music.

I felt only the throngings of passion that conquered the lit woodlands. And my weakness faded as I became the enduring Song of the Woodland.

“When Bucer was thundering loudest against the papacy, when anathemas were on his tongue, you could always detect a twinkle in his eye and a smile at the corner of his lips.”

We have an amazing legacy in the Reformation. But if you call yourself Reformed, be careful not to take the name too seriously – we are not reformed, but reforming. Semper reformanda.

She was well known - perhaps even notorious in her own time. Ask most people today about Katherine Von Bora, however, and you are likely to hear “Katherine Von who?”

While the Scottish Reformation has tended to be dismissed by most people as the machinations of religious fanatics and zealots - obviously not people in the lead to be considered champions of democracy - its impacts upon political thought were nothing short of revolutionary.