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Rosemary Frew is a minister of the Church of Scotland, who is nominated to serve as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2025–2026.. Since March 2017, she has served as the Minister for the parish of Bowden and Melrose in the Scottish Borders. [1]
From 2012 to 2016 she was convenor of the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland. Foster-Fulton took up a role with Christian Aid in 2017. [4] She was named as the Church of Scotland's next Moderator in October 2022, [2] and installed in office in May 2023 at the Church's annual General Assembly. She described herself as "beyond ...
The Church of Scotland (CoS; Scots: The Kirk o Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais na h-Alba) is a Presbyterian denomination of Christianity that holds the status of the national church in Scotland. It is one of the country's largest, having 259,200 members in 2023.
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At the Church of Scotland General Assembly on Saturday 16 May 2015, six years after the Aberdeen (Rennie) case was heard, the Church of Scotland voted to allow congregations to choose ministers in civil partnerships. [46] Commenting on this, Rennie said that it was a "great outcome for an open, broad and faithful Church of Scotland." [46]
James Murray (1732–1782) was a non-conformist minister of the Church of Scotland and prolific religious author. He expressed his views freely, being strongly anti-Catholic and opposed to the American War of Independence. He also made political comments, condemning the administration of Lord North from 1770 onwards.
Robertson said that the Church of Scotland and the Scottish Episcopal Church ignored the teachings of Saint Paul because they had ordained gays. [60] Robertson also said that Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by gays. [61] In response the Bank of Scotland dropped their plans for a business operation with Robertson, following customer ...