Some of you may listen to a Radio 4 programme called Last Word. In effect it offers appreciations and assessments of interesting people who have died in the week or so before the programme is broadcast. As I write, the cast includes Stephen Hawking and Ken Dodd. But it occurs to me that it’s an…
Bishop’s Lent Appeal 2018 in aid of motor neurone disease sufferers
Selection is in memory of former diocesan secretary Chris Zochowski, who died of MND in January.
Bishop Gregor’s Christmas message
St John 1.14: ‘and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us …’ We’re all familiar with slogans, mottoes, catchphrases, strap lines, by which institutions or political parties or campaigning groups like to promote themselves, their claims, their values among the rest of us. Some of them may strike us as important and even challenging…
Official report on Diocesan Synod 2017
The Dean, Very Revd Ian Barcroft presided at the Synod Eucharist and read the Bishop’s Charge on behalf of Bishop Gregor who could not be there as he was still recovering at home from a stroke. The elections to various positions were undertaken early in the agenda before the main topic on the agenda, changes…
Bishop Gregor Duncan’s message for Christmas 2016
As I write, the clocks have gone back and things are getting darker. People now talk of light deprivation as a medical condition and it does seem that some of us are susceptible to all of that. But, at this time of the year, there’s a lot of extra light around. Crowds of people out…
Glasgow kids’ holiday scheme set up by Episcopalian still going strong 60 years on
In the mid 1960s Tricia McConalogue was an 11-year-old girl living in the Gorbals. Her father worked as a bricklayer but money was tight and the family could not afford an annual holiday. Like many other families, they would manage a day away from time to time but in the main, Tricia rarely strayed far…
‘Richness, colour and not a little personal prejudice’
Bishop Gregor Duncan promises some highly personal views in June when he presents his annual lecture on the relevance of our Episcopalian liturgy to the people around us. Can it introduce them to the living God? What about its language, its ceremony, its symbolism; does it connect or does it alienate; does it express a…
Scottish Episcopal Church to debate changes to marriage canon
A proposal to amend the marriage canon to permit same sex weddings in churches will be considered by the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church next month, writes Gavin Drake. The proposed changes, which were requested by the Synod in 2015, remove the current definition of marriage in the first clause of the canon…
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