Rev. Laura Gilmour

Feels like everybody has the wrong number of jobs right now, either too many or too few.

So often the conclusion reached is something like "more leadership is required". Makes me curious. Is it really more "leadership"? I wonder if what's needed are more spaces for connection, and for valuing all the capabilities and ways of knowing we hold collectively between us?

3 faces wall mural

Glasgow West End sights this afternoon

Explore your call Is God calling you into Ministry? Explore what that means for you. Find ways to overcome barriers and respond positively to God's call.

Thinking of Baptist ministry in the UK? We have a free online event on 24.11.25 8pm where you can explore what this might look like, with plenty of time for questions and conversations.

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Going more slowly. That's not a bad thing. Actually, I feel it's essential. Going faster and faster and faster achieves what exactly? I think it means we miss out on so much. The meaningful warmth of connection for one. The beauty all around us for another.

Thinking of you today x

The Spiritual Significance of Geese An attempt to ease my fears

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Littlest and I excitedly ran to the door with our box of sweeties. (Guisers never come to our house). Alas, it was the post lady, who obliged by holding our parcels to ransom till we gave her a sweetie!

Poster for Feminist Theology Network online event. Birth in the Time of Death: Black Madonnas and the Initiation of Possibility. Dr Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones. Wed 19th Nov 7pm GMT. Background picture depicts a brown-skinned woman in a red dress, patterned with large flower petals. She is looking to the right and wearing a black mask. Her curly hair is pulled tight into a top ponytail, which stands straight up on her head, wound with braid.

Next up on the FTN calendar... yes, we know we are spoiling you with such excellent speakers: this week it was Dr Holly Morse and next month we have Dr Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones. Make sure Wednesday 19th November goes in your diary!

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ahh! a small fluffy ghost sits on a hardwood floor staring directly at us. but actually... the longer we take it in, the more cute the ghost becomes. one could even mistake this little guy for a golden retriever puppy wearing a sheet with eye, ear, and mouth holes cut out of it. even though he gave us a fright, we would still pet this ghost puppy.

My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)

The more polarised and performative the 'debates' about deeply important issues become, the less space there is for genuine curiosity, openness, and mutual understanding. Where's the space for not knowing, grappling with the differences, and learning? Such space is essential.

What did you get?

Thanks Peter,thats helpful :)

Is there a way to make a personal feed on here, that's basically just your pals?

They're probably just doing their thing under the radar, exhibiting relational 'soft' power and hopefully messing stuff up for the alphas.

Golden fallen leaves

Necessary leaf kicking on a visit this morning

Conference slides and speaker

Women's Voices Conference 2025 at @lutherkingtheology.bsky.social. 100% worth the 8hr round trip from Glasgow to Manchester but would love to see a Scottish Ecumenical version. Who's in?

In all the rush and the noise and the harshness, I hold on to the beauty of connections and friendship and taking our time. And savouring moments like this one.

A backlit St Boniface, while the clouds are drawn in the blue.

The old kirk this evening, Papay, island of the Papar.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

Never thought this would cross my mind during my lifetime.

Bridge Crossed 120x for Primary Care Chaplaincy Scotland Help Euan Hutchinson raise money to support Primary Care Chaplaincy Scotland

Primary Carw Chaplaincy Scotland are doing a 120 challenge fundraiser. An amazing small charity doing such good. Please sponsor us!

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A green garden with a circular pond in the centre, with stairs leading up to a large house in the backdrop. - View of the house from the Spanish garden at Mount Stewart, County Down ©National Trust Images/James Dobson

🎨 Apply by 29 Sept 2025 for a £10,000 Artist Residency at Mount Stewart, Co. Down! Part of the Historic Houses, Global Crossroads research, the 6-week residency (May–June 2026) invites artists to explore global plant networks & reimagine the site’s ecological legacy🌿See link in thread.

Trump apparently thinks domestic violence is not a crime. That makes sense | Moira Donegan Trump’s view of the prerogatives of husbands towards their wives mirror his own sense of his entitlements as president towards his abused country

Trump apparently thinks domestic violence is not a crime. That makes sense | Moira Donegan

Book shop with cake and coffee

I think I've found my spot for the afternoon. #PhDlife

Small beautiful things I found on the beach when I went there to help my poorly brain yesterday. I’ve collected and arranged precious beach finds like this since I was really small. The process quietens & calms my noisy negative anxious thoughts.

Less “You’re so strong” and more “That looks heavy. Let me help you carry it.”

This #book is life changing

I have been gaslit into believing that sleep is “lazy”
That sleeping as little as possible is virtuous, a sign of working hard

#WhyWeSleep has shocked me,
explaining why less sleep diminishes our ability to perform to our best….& literally KILLS US

#BookSky #Books 📚

Be Gay, Do Crime: A History of Queer Resistance Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, from Working Class History, by Zane McNeill, Blu Buchanan and Riley Clare Valentine.

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