Scottish Christian.com

Home > News > Scottish Christian News Monitor

August 2008

• Glasgow will sing with renewed vitality thanks to city of music status
• Modernising Muslims sign up as Scottish ambassadors to Islam
• David Lumsden of Cushnie, 1933-2008
• 'New perspective' needed amid school head crisis
• Moderator visits lino firm
• Scottish churches 'going green'
• Ex-bingo hall reopens as a church
• Grant cash will aid Trust's Peru work
• Internet maps under fire for missing out churches and other landmarks
• Inverness provost’s religious reprieve
• Aberdeen nativity scene 'too expensive'
• Last chance to air views on alcohol proposals
• US team success for ex-Farr pupil
• Chronological Bibles: Do they offer clarity or confusion?
• OAP believes Bankies can help find Maddie
• Sir Alex supports church campaign
• Ancient Scots clock chimes again
• 'Life expectancy doesn't worry me'
• Sex-assault businessman sentenced to 45 months
• Mosque leader jailed for abusing teenage girls
• Stay of execution for Dunnichen Kirk
• Pub plan could save landmark church
• Stirling gets greetings from Stirling
• Christian bikers to help bring motorbikes to rural Congo
• Time team probes position of Angus relic
• Cardinal hits out at EU over attitude to Christianity
• Gana the gorilla: grieving mother?
• Favourite charity of Tommy Burns faces axe over innocent killer links
• Watchdog questions Government grant to Islamic group with SNP link
• Scots heroine of Auschwitz joins Brown's roll of honour
• Methodist churches challenged to eliminate discrimination and inequality
• The words sent down through centuries
• Life and Work looks at the whole truth
• Jesus axed by Aberdeen council
• Shocking report into Scots secure unit riot blasts management
• Church moderator to commence Scotland tour
• Reverend Matthew Sullivan
• Church moderator celebrates 'groundbreaking' eco-friendly church
• New minister for Lairg and Bonar Free Church
• Ding-dong as church bell recording fails to appeal to neighbours
• Mandela most admired campaigner says Christian Aid poll
• Lottery boost for church face-lift
• Church worker found with thousands of child porn pictures on computer
• Fetlar nuns pray for planning consent
• Youths attack church with wayward golf balls
• Spiers meets match in Motson
• Church rejects rumours of manse sale
• Jowell visits hero Eric Liddell’s grave
• Buckfast Abbey plans to open new winery
• Bid to open new 'Buckie' winery
• Sister Francis Henry
• Priest unites new communities
• Anne Service
• St Joseph's make dream come true for Malawi kids
• From East Lothian to Serbia
• Civil weddings outnumber religious total for third year
• Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition
• Gaining the Plenary Indulgence during the Year of Saint Paul
• RCs release a new English liturgy
• Dunfermline dad hits out at Christian group's skate demo event
• MSP backs scheme to help people with learning difficulties find jobs
• African school thrives thanks to Edinburgh money
• Ullapool stalwart has given so much to community
• Eric Liddell, the lost Olympian
• Island minister bound for Olympics in Beijing
• Church mourns death of father figure Gordon
• Thug jailed for kicking T in the Park cop in the head
• Crunch takes toll on Buckfast
• John Richardson Vivers
• William MacDonald
• Community seeks outside help over Kirk dilemma
• Sister Rosalie Dunn
• Sex shame priest drops legal action to sue Catholic Church
• Bishop Joseph Devine anti-gay, say stars
• His saving grace: Gene Robinson interview
• Rapist attacked again only four months after release from jail
• Edinburgh welcomes controversial gay bishop
• Church needs a helping hand
• Scotland’s Olympians aim to make mark
• Principal A C Boyd
• Dr Dennis Townhill
• Tony Sargent: 'Changing somebody’s world costs very little'
• The truth about the Picts
• 105 by grace and clean living
• Church decries doctors who support population control
• The Church and the Media
• Love rat referee boasts: I'm off to heaven
• Sandy McIlwain
• Children’s home re-opens after riot
• Gay clerics certain to win struggle, Right Rev Gene Robinson says
• Gay bishop thanks Scottish Church for recognising 'all God's people'
• Applause and tears as gay US bishop preaches in Glasgow
• Bishop confesses to boyhood sex assault on woman
• Child abuse reconciliation bid 'doomed'
• Richard Holloway dissects the nature of evil
• Church gives its blessing to nightly service
• Scotland leads on tolerance – will the Church of England follow?