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January 2008

• Catholic Education Week - 'Teaching Values for Life'
• Iain Lochhead
• John Logie
• The God issue
• Churches challenged to practise justice during Lent
• Jesuits overjoyed as new online journal clocks up thousands of visitors
• Scots to sponsor Ekwendeni Medicals FC
• Unthinking dogmatism
• Our man in Prague
• Salvation Army leads live Lent broadcast on BBC Radio 4
• Communion cups could raise a toast
• New fund aims to change Scotland's charities
• Scotland at climate 'crossroads'
• Minister takes a new approach to services
• Kenyan churches to receive WCC solidarity visit
• Moderator to meet with Scotland's major politicians on annual visit to Parliament
• Cyclist amazed by huge donation
• Marching down through the years
• Priest is sacked after admitting 18-year affair
• Alastair Cameron on poverty
• Church warns pagan holiday spells trouble
• Pro-life MPs seek free embryo vote
• Taupo, Orkney services to have common features
• We must not forget the Holocaust
• Royal Navy satanist gets promotion
• Moderator wins hearts and minds
• Kids' work isn't always child's play
• Kirk speaks out on Kenya crisis as Presbyterians are murdered
• Alex MacDonald on The Big Questions
• Free Church bid to curb drinking fails
• School merger plans would fence off Catholic kids
• YMCA wants more youngsters for activities
• Website revamps to help Archbishops reach new audiences
• Scots want action on climate change
• Bestselling hymn book goes digital
• Yobs beat dad in front of his children
• Christians hope BBC's Passion will get nation talking about Jesus
• How Vatican reacted to mission's wind of change
• Christian housing charities to speak up for UK's 12 million poor people
• Churches split over unity
• Cardinal calls on Scottish Government to end "failing" sexual health strategies
• Bishop Tartaglia laments "state-sponsored attack on unborn human life"
• Cardinal attacks Scottish Government's sexual health record
• Sabbath sailing decision delayed
• Fans fined for offensive chants
• Gravestones wrecked by youngsters
• Father's sad pilgrimage to pray for his Karen
• Hope UK challenges Christians to go alcohol-free this Lent
• Scottish-born Salem co-pastor Paterson finds area delightful
• RE teachers put their faith in philosophy
• Priest spends nights with divorcee
• Orkney remembers murdered backpacker
• Scottish churches blaze a trail for eco-congregations action
• Rev Frederick Fulton
• Blythswood puts out appeal to aid flood-hit Africans
• Name-change for Industrial Mission
• Premier announces new website to target whole of church
• Queen's new church role for Reid
• Scotland charity ride
• Home and abroad on agenda for moderator
• Off with the dog collar as Margaret pens a cat's tale
• Bishops warn of "scientific opportunism" behind embryo legislation
• Scottish response to draft Anglican Covenant
• The Joy of Calvinism
• Rev Matthew Liddell
• Leader of gay body on child porn charge
• Teenagers jailed for Buckfast killing
• Nun confronts bombers
• Teenager Amy sells chocs to raise cash for homeless
• Maverick wants to ditch 'doom and gloom' image
• Turning over a new leaf
• Prayer is focus for Churches Together project with BBC
• Blasphemy report might be repealed
• Jail for Buckfast bottle killers
• Joy as asylum family are allowed to stay in Glasgow
• Evangelical Alliance seeks wider debate on blasphemy laws
• Moderator-designate announced
• Easter absent from holidays
• Popular clergyman moves to new parish in Scotland
• Thieves target religious statue
• Amendment to protect free speech of British Christians defeated
• Moderator highlights importance of rural activities
• Deportation threat is lifted from Shetland family after four-year fight
• Bus driving minister raised in Scotland is awarded MBE
• Church to be consulted on blasphemy laws repeal
• Tributes paid to popular minister who died aged 92
• Fresh look at divine providence
• Bible Society of Kenya appeals for prayer
• Justice and Peace Sunday
• Free Church plans to scrap Gaelic communion service
• Hundreds dance night away at ceilidh
• Scots nuns trapped in convent as machete gangs go on killing spree
• Future of church under review
• 12th-century book on St Mungo made Glasgow a must-see city
• Communities rally around their besieged churches
• Scots urged to recycle Xmas cards
• Former news man with a love of peace
• Margaret Brown
• Town on trail of pilgrim progress
• Scripture Union brings Bible alive for online generation
• Club's chaplain brings new spirit to inspire players
• Make faith count in Kenya, says Kirk
• Noted Christian speaker, author dies at 90
• The humanist touch: why weddings are on increase
• Accountants face up to the moral maze
• Drugs and tobacco, yes. Why not alcohol too?
• Moderator's New Year message for 2008
• Unholy row over loans
• Kirk rejects 'war on terror' discourse over Pakistan's future