Catriona
October 2009
This blog is now almost four years old - a surprise to me, as I anticipated I'd have long since become bored with it.
So, the essentials of who I am and what I do:
I am a mid-forties Baptist minister who until ten years ago was an engineer employed to undertake risk assessments for hazardous industries. Now I'm just in the risky business of 'professional' Christian service.
After almost six years serving a small, mainly older congregation in North West Leicestershire known on-line as Dibley, I have just been inducted to a church in the West End of Glasgow, the character of which will no doubt emerge and lead to its on-line pseudonym.
If I had to sum up what I'm about as a minister in one sentence it'd probably be that "faith without deeds is dead" (James 2: 26b) requires a lived response as 'mission in many modes' (David Bosch).
When I'm not being a minister or blogging, I am kept busy with other interests... a part time doctorate in Practical Theology, being a Girls' Brigade leader, walking long distance footpaths with friends, reading, listening to music (and occasionally playing it too), eating chocolate (which I try to avoid doing too often) and drinking lattes and tea.
So there you have it! Hope you enjoy my blog, but don't take it too seriously.
PS If you are wondering about the title of my blog - I enjoy the odd fairtrade latte, and the skinny milk is meant to help control my expanding waistline. Food courts everywhere are pretty similar (a Post Modern phenomenon apparently) but are also great places to pause a while, watch the world go by and spend a bit of time thinking about all manner of stuff before rushing on with life. Some of my best undergraduate essays started life as notes written on paper serviettes whilst I supped my weekly latte - it seemed only fitting that this oversized virtual paper serviette should be named to reflect a very happy and formative period in my life.