CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The Church of Scotland’s General Assembly on Monday (May 20) passed a historic vote to allow actively gay men and lesbians to become ordained ministers. After more than six ...

(UPDATED) Traditionalist minority worry disagreement on the issue will make it harder to work together on mission. Update (May 23): Church of Scotland ministers are now permitted to perform same-sex ...

A hundred years ago there was a Presbyterian clergyman in Scotland who could make lectures on mathematics so stirring that the authorities at St. Andrews, fearful of the excitement thus roused in the ...

A VOTE for independence could jeopardise the position of the church, it has been claimed. Present arrangements, in place since the union of 1707, enshrine Christianity at the heart of the nation, ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Rev. Joann White and Duane Keith Gould will share photos and reflections from their Scotland sabbatical travels on three Friday evenings in July. The presentations will take place ...

Pope Francis, Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and the Rev. Jim Wallace, moderator of the Church of Scotland, marked the 10th anniversary of South Sudan's independence and again promised ...

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