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• • Aberdeen: Challenges of a future without oil

  • Sat 25 May 2013
  • Outside the elegant neoclassical building that the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) has inhabited in Edinburgh city centre since the early 19th century, hundreds of people were dancing in the sunshine to I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers.

• • A step towards secularisation

  • Mon 20 May 2013
  • TODAY at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland we are likely to see one more step towards the secularisation of the Kirk, when it is expected that the commissioners will decide to break with tradition and the Westminster Confession of Faith and for the first time over-ride the long-held and clear teaching of the Bible.

• • Agenda: Church of Scotland needs a major reality check

  • Mon 20 May 2013
  • While representing the Church of Scotland at a consultation in South Korea I was approached by a representative from the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan.

• • Kirk traditionalists confident in debate over gay ministers

  • Mon 20 May 2013
  • A TRADITIONALIST surge is expected in a push for a full ban on gay ministers who are in same-sex relationships today as the Church of Scotland faces its greatest challenge yet on the issue.

• • Female Moderator's Kirk honour

  • Sun 19 May 2013
  • THE new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has described her appointment as an "enormous privilege and honour".