October’s Sung Evensong at All Saints will take place at 6.30 pm on the 14th of the month instead of the 7th to avoid coinciding with a Valedictory Evensong for Bishop Gregor Duncan.
Bishop Gregor to retire
Bishop Gregor Duncan is to retire on October 11 – his 68th birthday – after more than eight years in office. He offered his valedictory words to the Diocesan Synod in Kilmarnock on May 12: “As St Paul might have put it, be more and more what you already are – called and loved into…
Easter message from Bishop Gregor Duncan
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…
Christmas message from Bishop Gregor Duncan
At times it is hard to think that the world we live in is anything other than very dark, writes Bishop Gregor Duncan. All around us are threats to life – climate change, terrorism, civil wars, genocidal campaigns, corruption, failed and failing states, appalling abuse, not least of women and children – the list is…
Bishop’s Lent Appeal for Scottish Episcopal Institute
Bishop Gregor Duncan writes: This year, all seven diocesan bishops have agreed that, in their Lent Appeals, they wish to support the training and formation of those entering the ordained ministry or licensed lay ministry in the Scottish Episcopal Church. In commending my 2015 Lent Appeal to you, I do so alongside each of my…
