He has been a personal guest of HM Queen Elizabeth II at her Scottish home, Balmoral Castle, while also being regarded as an important theological resource person for the emerging church in the UK (he is deputy chair of the board of mission shaped ministry, which is part of the Fresh Expressions initiative of the Church of England).
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It was in that context that some of his most distinctive missional thinking was first conceived, and one of the highlights of that period was an event celebrating the Christian festival of Pentecost at Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988, which attracted a record crowd of more than 48,000 people and for which he received an award from the UK government which is preserved in the archives of Action of Churches Together in Scotland.
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A course on theology and culture which was originally offered in Aberdeen is now part of the curriculum at International Christian College in Glasgow, and he also teaches occasional courses at Cranmer Hall, an Anglican theological college in the University of Durham.
In Stirling, he established the Religious Studies department and recruited John Drane and the late Glyn Richards to work alongside him in this enterprise.
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