Each week different authors contribute their thoughts on a variety of subjects on the PCI blog. If you missed last month's, here’s another chance to catch up with September's top picks.

Living with cancer Personal experiences have led Julie Peake, a former deaconess, and retired minister Rev Ian Harbinson to develop a retreat day for people living with cancer, that took place at Portrush Presbyterian Church on Saturday 8 September. On the day of Stand Up to Cancer’s sixth biennial telecast, Julie described their motivations for the retreat.
Beautiful acts of kindness planned for IJM & Trinity House As PW groups began their new sessions in September, Pauline Kennedy introduced the 2018/2019 Special Projects under the theme, Beautiful.	Moderator at Omagh Academy's Speech Day Having attended Omagh Academy’s Speech Day and Prize Giving on numerous occasions when he was at the school in the 1970s, the Moderator, Rt Rev Dr Charles McMullen, returned to his old school to take on a new role at the annual event – giving the speech. In this blog the former head boy talks about this moving experience, the memories that it brought back for him and the three myths he wanted to dispel for the students arrayed in front of him in the Assembly Hall.
Presbyterian Herald October 2018 The October 2018 edition of the Presbyterian Herald is now available. Editor, Sarah Harding, introduces this month's edition.	Here comes the rain... As we progress from summer into autumn, Rev Ian Harbinson notes the return of the rains, and the life it restores to yellowed fields and gardens. Reflecting on the words of Deuteronomy 32, he considers how God's Word is like the rain, giving new life and hope to dead and dry souls.

You can read all of September’s blogs and search through an archive of over 150 more here. Subjects ranging from discipleship to food waste, the Reformation to PCI’s Vision for Society, Christmas to different aspects of congregational life – and other nuggets in between.