The President announces a plan to make the Society and its work more widely known, to be discussed at a meeting in St Mary’s Dundee in October. There will also be papers on the Church and the Arts, and on the devotional uses of the current Church Hymnary.
The editor suggests that as well as Bible Study in a congregation, there should be a place for ‘hymn study’. He also announces his retiral and takes the opportunity to suggest that the title of the journal be changed. Cap this A story about an absent-minded minister.
This is the presidential address to the Society of 1984 by the Revd W H M Cant of St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney. This substantial paper begins by quoting an excerpt from the Orkney writer George Mackay Brown recreating a mass on the island of Egilsay and continues with a searching and eloquent plea to the… Read More
An insert is included in this number giving details of the shape and content of family services over the years, and an explanation, given by the Revd Alastair H Gray, minister of Methil, is printed within the journal. It is regretted that the insert, a copy of the ‘Sunday newspaper’ of this congregation, was not… Read More
An obituary of a past president and former Moderator of the General Assembly. A dip in the archives This referred to a service of Holy Communion in 1985 held in Greyfriars during the General Assembly, where the musical settings of the liturgical texts as in the current Church Hymnary (Third Edition, ‘CH3’) were used along… Read More
This is offered by the Revd W G Young, recently retired from Resolis and Urquhart. Cap this A minister records two couples to be married by him with appropriate names.
Professor Einar Sigurbjörnsson, University of Iceland
Einar Sigurbjörnsson gives an account of their new book of worship, published in 1981 and the principles behind the revision.
Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue: The Dublin Agreed Statement 1984, SPCK 1984, reviewed by Rev Dr R Stuart Louden Creation and Evolution: The Facts and Fallacies, Alan Hayward, SPCK, reviewed by Rev William G Neill
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