May 23, 2013
The Church of Scotland is totally switched on [sic] and committed to tackling the digital divide [sic]. The digital divide is the gap between those in society who have access to and the resources to regularly use new technology including the internet, social media such as Twitter and Facebook, and those who are unable to. [...]
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May 23, 2013
A priest who served communities for 55 years died as he prepared for morning Mass. Canon Michael MacNamee, 79, known as Father Mac, died at St Leonard’s Church, East Kilbride, with his rosary beads in his hands. He has been described as a “rock of the community” whose death will leave “an enormous void”. Canon [...]
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May 23, 2013
A study by the Marriage Foundation calculates that cohabiting couples who have children are more than twice as likely to split up as those who had tied the knot beforehand. But of those who do not then go on to get married after having children, only a handful will still be together by the time [...]
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May 23, 2013
One of Scotland’s leading theologians has blamed a drop in evangelical students training for the ministry on the Church of Scotland’s battle over gay clergy. The Reverend Professor David Fergusson, principal of the New College, Edinburgh University’s divinity school, said the Kirk must stop squabbling over sexuality or risk alienating more young people. He appealed [...]
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May 23, 2013
The Church of Scotland needs to take “real risks” and create “radical models” of training if it is to persuade more young people to become ministers, the General Assembly heard yesterday. The call for change came as ministers were told that only 25 people had applied for full-time ministry in 2012, and of the 16 [...]
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May 22, 2013
Speaking to the General Assembly this afternoon, the Moderator of the National Youth Assembly, Euan Patterson, urged all male delegates to support the White Ribbon Campaign against domestic violence. The National Youth Assembly brings together a diverse group of young people and aims to give them a voice within the church. In August 2012, they [...]
Posted in Church of Scotland, Crime, Scottish Christian News Monitor, Social Action, Social Policy, Youth
May 22, 2013
Church of Scotland chaplains have continued to provide pastoral care and support for the servicemen and women in Afghanistan and other parts of the world as well as their families back home. Their work is recognised tomorrow in a Report of the Committee on Chaplains to Her Majesty’s Forces at the General Assembly of the [...]
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May 22, 2013
The Church of Scotland is to introduce a plan to ensure the continued professional development of its Ministers. The aim is to ensure it has the right people in the right places delivering the right kind of worship to congregations. Reporting to the General Assembly today, Wednesday May 22, Convener of the Special Commission on [...]
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May 22, 2013
The Church of Scotland’s Ministries Council has today called for the recruitment of more Deacons. It also gave thanks for and affirmed the distinctive ministry of the Diaconate. The Greek word diakonia (‘service’) is the root of the word Diaconate and 2013 marks the 125th Anniversary of the founding of the Diaconate of the Church [...]
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May 22, 2013
In his moderatorial address to the General Assembly of the Free Church Continuing, the new Moderator, Rev Warren Gardner stated: “The gay community needs to hear a message of hope, a message of hope for ‘all’ sinners. “They must hear that ‘some of us’ in Christ’s Church, in the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), were [...]
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May 22, 2013
Two nuns have been cleared of assaulting girls in their care at an approved school in Renfrewshire. Anne Kenny, 79, known as Mother Rosaria, and Agnes Reville, 77, known as Mother Martin, had been accused of hitting pupils at Dalbeth Approved School in Bishopton from 1969 to 1971. Their trial at Paisley Sheriff Court heard [...]
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May 22, 2013
A massive Loyalist march will be held in Perth this weekend. Around 3200 participants from across Scotland will march through the city centre for the annual Apprentice Boys of Derry May Rally on Saturday. And the event is expected to draw another 5000 people into the city to watch the spectacle. Over 50 branch clubs [...]
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May 22, 2013
The head of the Kirk’s charity wing has warned it will be forced to consider the future of some care services if local authorities keep cutting funding. The Reverend Syd Graham, convener of the Church of Scotland’s social care council, said it would not run “cheapo” services for councils in the face of falling funding [...]
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May 21, 2013
Yesterday’s decision on sexuality and the ministry at the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly means that “the Kirk has moved and is moving”, according to the Rev Scott Rennie, the openly gay minister whose appointment at Queen’s Cross church in Aberdeen helped precipitate the debate. Commenting on the weblog of the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, [...]
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May 21, 2013
Scotland will next year be voting on independence but the Church of Scotland’s Sally Foster-Fulton wants the ongoing conversation to move away from a “tennis match of yes and no”. Foster-Fulton, convener of the Kirk’s Church and Society Council, said the debate so far had been “quite polarised” and that she wanted to see people [...]
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