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Study Day and Annual Meeting 2024

Study Day 2023, which will be in the autumn, takes as its theme the growing phenomenon of Pilgrimage, dropped by the Reformed churches, but experiencing a home-coming in the secularized world of the twenty-first century. Further details will be posted here as they emerge.

Annual Meeting and Supper 2024
Greyfriars Kirk May 21 5.30p Greyfriars Kirk
John L Bell will give his Presidential Address on ‘The Life in Liturgy’. He explores how worship shapes not only belief but discipleship, how far symbol and symbolic actions can aid or impede devotion, and what is the effect of hymn texts whose dominant images celebrate the birth and death of Jesus rather than his ministry. For the Supper, book by Monday May 13 at dgalbraith@churchofscotland.org.uk (£27.50 pay on the day).

Annual Meeting 2023

The Society's Annual Meeting for 2023 is on Tuesday May 23 during the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, beginning at 5.30pm.

The speaker is the Revd Dr Liam Jerrold Fraser, minister of St Michael's Linlithgow and Convener of the Assembly's Theological Forum. His topic is

THE END OF WORSHIP? THE PURPOSE OF CONGREGATIONS AND THE SUNDAY SERVICE IN AN AGE OF MISSION PLANNING.

Stay for supper afterwards, cost £25.

Book with the Secretary Scott McKenna smckenna@churchofscotland.org.uk.

Streaming the Sunday Service

The Church Service Society is sponsoring a Study Day on Friday 24 February at Holy Trinity Church, Stirling.

The purpose of the day is to reflect both theologically and in terms of practice on the lockdown experience of the streaming of Sunday worship and where there are plans to continue.

Speakers will be the Revd Dr Tom Shields (writing in the current Theology in Scotland) and the Revd Fraser Penny, minister of Dunkeld Cathedral, whose Sunday broadcasts have attracted special mention.

The event will run from around 10.15am until 4.00pm.

Further information here

Prayers in a Pandemic

Prayers in a PandemicTwo prayers originating from both Anglican and Methodist sources for this challenging time, as well as two prayers by Lezley Stewart who is the Church of Scotland’s Recruitment and Support Secretary, within the new Faith Nurture Forum.

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