Free Church woos rebel Edinburgh congregations in Kirk gay row
Three Church of Scotland congregations in Edinburgh are being wooed by the Free Church after they announced plans to quit the Kirk over gay ministers. The Free Church, which takes a strong traditionalist stance, has set up a special working group to hold talks with congregations and ministers across the country who are unhappy with [...]
Free Church, Kirk and Episcopalians to stage open air worship at Urquhart Castle on shores of Loch Ness
Hundreds of worshippers are set to gather on the shores of Loch Ness this summer as three congregations host an open air service at the historic Urquhart Castle. On Sunday 28 July, the Glenurquhart Free Church of Scotland congregation, in partnership with their Church of Scotland and Episcopalian neighbours, will be involved in a ‘Picnic [...]
BBC Radio Scotland to broadcast Free Church sermons throughout June
Sermons from a Free Church of Scotland minister will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland each Sunday in June. Preaching from Rev David Robertson, who is minister of St Peter’s in Dundee and director of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity, will be on the station’s ‘New Every Morning’ programme. The first broadcast will be [...]
Help wanted for Slovak Bible camp
Last a year a small team from Govanhill Free Church in Glasgow partnered with a church in Slovakia to run a holiday Bible camp for kids aged 6-11 years old. The town of Spisska Nova Ves is in Eastern Slovakia and lies below the spectacular High Tatras mountains. The Spisska church are planning another camp [...]
Attendance at Free Church services increases
The number of people attending Free Church of Scotland services has increased over the past five years as it grows in Scotland’s major cities, the General Assembly heard last week. Statistics showed that an average of 12,639 attended worship each week last year, up from 12,431 in 2007. Although it is only a modest increase [...]
Unity: A plea to Kirk evangelicals from the Free Church
The following speech was given at tonight’s Free Church of Scotland General Assembly by Rev Dr Iain D Campbell, convener of the Ecumenical Relations Committee. We are not your enemies, we are your brothers My main concern is presenting this report tonight is to address the question of the Church of Scotland and the ramifications [...]
Church of Scotland backs openly gay men and women to become ministers
The Church of Scotland has voted in favour of allowing openly gay men and women to become ministers – whilst maintaining a traditionalist standpoint. The General Assembly backed a motion affirming the Church’s “current doctrine and practice in relation to human sexuality”, but permitting liberal congregations to depart from that approach if they wish to do so. [...]
Gay marriage row ‘will strengthen Kirk’
THE debate over gay ministers will strengthen the Church of Scotland a leading advocate of the move has insisted, following criticism from the Free Kirk. The General Assembly, the annual conference of 850 church leaders, will vote on the issue of homosexual clergy on Monday. The Free Kirk, which is opposed to the change, warned [...]
Name change for Free Church College would ‘generate interest in wider evangelical church circles’
The Free Church College should be renamed the Edinburgh Theological Seminary to generate interest within wider evangelical church circles and show Gospel-work co-operation, the Church’s General Assembly will hear next week. The College Board report believes its identity is too tied in with the denomination, and the change would make the College “a more national [...]
Inverness lap dancing club given green light
Lap dancing has controversially been given the go ahead in the Highlands for the first time. The bid by Hush had been opposed by Highland Violence Against Women Strategy Group and religious groups. Maxine Smith, the chairwoman of Highland Council’s licensing board which gave the application the green light, also claimed it was “exploitation against [...]
