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The head of the Kirk’s charity wing has warned it will be forced to consider the future of some care services if local authorities keep cutting funding. The Reverend Syd Graham, convener of the Church of Scotland’s social care council, said it would not run “cheapo” services for councils in the face of falling funding [...]

Yesterday’s decision on sexuality and the ministry at the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly means that “the Kirk has moved and is moving”, according to the Rev Scott Rennie, the openly gay minister whose appointment at Queen’s Cross church in Aberdeen helped precipitate the debate. Commenting on the weblog of the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, [...]

Scotland will next year be voting on independence but the Church of Scotland’s Sally Foster-Fulton wants the ongoing conversation to move away from a “tennis match of yes and no”. Foster-Fulton, convener of the Kirk’s Church and Society Council, said the debate so far had been “quite polarised” and that she wanted to see people [...]