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Queen’s Birthday Honours: James MacMillan leads knighted Scots
Composer James MacMillan has said he is “totally delighted” at being knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The 55-year-old has been awarded the honour for services to music. Dr MacMillan’s...
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Pervert preacher Walter Masocha walks free after being convicted of sex...
A pervert pastor who groped a deaconess and molested a schoolgirl has dodged a jail term. Victims’ relatives reacted with fury outside court yesterday after cult leader Walter Masocha escaped with...
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Christian campaigner condemns new Fifty Shades book
The next instalment in the Fifty Shades of Grey book series has been accused of glamorising and validating domestic violence by a Christian campaigner. Vivienne Pattison from Mediawatch UK said the...
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Councillor branded ‘immature and embarrassing’ by Rev David Robertson over...
A formal complaint has been made to the SNP after a Dundee councillor was accused of mocking Christianity in an online spat. Senior SNP member Gregor Murray has been accused by the Rev David Robertson...
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How to be a Progressive, Affirming, Accepting, Welcoming … and BIBLICAL church
My church, St Peter’s Free Church in Dundee, is a progressive, affirming, accepting, welcoming, biblical church, writes Rev David Robertson. We even have a rainbow as one of our symbols! In today’s...
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North Berwick High School pupils unhappy at ‘Christian’ assemblies
Hundreds of pupils at North Berwick High School have signed a petition demanding an end to Christian assemblies in the school. The move comes after some students raised concerns regarding the claim...
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Facial recognition technology used to track church attendance
Churches are using special surveillance technology which can recognise faces to track who’s attending their services. Thirty churches in countries like the United States, Spain and India are using...
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Outlander cast back in Scotland as filming continues at Glasgow Cathedral
Sam Heughan and the rest of the Outlander cast were back in Scotland this week. The Scots actor was at Glasgow Cathedral today after appearing at the Edinburgh Festival for opening gala The Legend of...
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Back congregation marks Rev Alasdair Smith’s 50 years of ministry
A large crowd gathered in the church hall at Back on Wednesday (17 June) evening to mark Rev Alasdair Smith’s 50th year in the Christian ministry. Rev Calum Iain Macleod then an overview of Alasdair...
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Report published from largest-ever Sunday School survey
The Free Church of Scotland’s Youth Committee has published a report from the denomination’s largest-ever Sunday School survey. • Read the full report downpage. Entitled ‘Pointing to Jesus’, the...
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Church of Scotland minister says to teach Jesus died for sins is “ghastly...
The Free Church Moderator of Scotland [sic] is preparing to debate the foundations of Christianity with a Scottish minister who does not agree that Jesus died for sinners. Revd Scott McKenna, minister...
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I don’t dumb down God – ‘astonishing article in the Daily Mail’
Kevin McKenna is a senior Scottish journalist who writes for the Guardian, Observer and in this case the Daily Mail, writes Rev David Robertson. A number or weeks ago he contacted me about doing a...
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Staff appointments at Highland Theological College’s new Glasgow base
Highland Theological College UHI has appointed two members of staff to run its newly opened base in Glasgow. Mrs Pamela Adkins and Reverend Nathan Owens will run the classrooms based at Newton Place in...
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Christian college head: No, we won’t issue ‘trigger warnings’ before altar calls
The president of a Christian college in the US has hit back against “self-absorbed and narcissistic” students in an excoriating online article. A student at Oklahoma Wesleyan University last week...
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Cambuslang priest set to return after being cleared by church probe into sex...
Parishioners at St Bride’s in Cambuslang have expressed their delight at the possible return to the parish of Father Paul Morton. The Catholic Church confirmed last week it had completed its...
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First official Jewish tartan unveiled
Jews around the world with a love of all things Scottish will now able to dress in an official kosher tartan. The distinctive blue and white design was created by Mendel Jacobs, the only Scottish-born...
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David Cameron’s shallow, clichéd Easter message shows why politicians really...
Ted Cruz gets it, writes Tom Harris. When the US Senator was declared the winner of the Iowa caucus in February, his first words to his adoring fans were: “To God be the glory!” And he meant it. That’s...
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Scots party leaders call for Named Person pause
Parents’ concerns about the Named Person scheme should be addressed and the whole proposal paused, the leaders of the Scottish Conservatives and Scottish Labour have said. Ahead of the upcoming...
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Scotland to give legal recognition to people who are neither male nor female
Scotland is set to become one of the first countries in Europe to give legal recognition to people who are neither male nor female. Nicola Sturgeon pledged to reform gender recognition law to “bring it...
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‘Gender-fluidity’: Free Kirk accuses Scots political elites of...
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland has written to Nicola Sturgeon calling for a debate on ‘gender-fluidity’ after the First Minister announced that an SNP Government...
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