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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 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…

‘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…

Bishop Gregor Duncan named among ‘top 100 UK Christians’

The Rt Rev Dr Gregor Duncan, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, has been included in a list of the ‘Top 100 UK Christians for 2014’ published on the influential Archbishop Cranmer weblog. Nominations are made on behalf of those who “have somehow distinguished themselves over the past year in their ministry, mission or Christian witness”….

Christmas message from Bishop Gregor Duncan

In 1951, I was told many years ago, for my first birthday I was given a set of what were then called Fairy Lights, for the Christmas tree. I grew up with these lovely things and enjoyed them well into my teens – what happened to them, I don’t really know. They were larger than…

New Diocesan Treasurer appointed

The Bishop’s Staff Group has appointed Bob Burgon to succeed Terry Lillie as Diocesan Treasurer. He will officially take on the position from November 1st. Bob is currently Treasurer and Lay Reader at Christ Church, Lanark. He represents the Diocese on the Provincial Investment Committee, is a Trustee of the SEC Pension Fund and is…

Bishop’s 2014 Lent Appeal is for Yorkhill Children’s Charity

Every year more than 160,000 children attend the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill in Glasgow, from all areas of Scotland as well as some from England and Ireland. The work of Yorkhill Children’s Charity is to make the experience as pleasant and comfortable as it can be for both the patients and their…

Closure of Holy Cross, Knightswood

On 14th December 2013, Bishop Gregor celebrated the final Eucharist at the closure and de-consecration of Holy Cross, Knightswood, thus bringing to an end 87 years of Episcopalian presence on the site, writes Graham Hely. The congregation of Holy Cross, Knightswood was founded in 1926 under the Bishop of Glasgow’s Church Extension Scheme, during the development…

Fresh start for Episcopalians in Drumchapel

Graeme Hely writes: The Episcopalian congregation in Drumchapel has found a new home due to the kindness of the Drumchapel United Reformed Church, in the beautiful little URC church in Essenside Avenue whose minister is the Revd William Young. Yesterday Bishop Gregor presided there at a Eucharist of Thanksgiving and Rededication attended by the congregation, friends and…

Bishop’s Visitation

The Rev Sydney Maitland and the Vestry wish to say a big thank you to all members of the congregation who helped to make the Bishop’s Visitation on Tuesday 27 March such a success. Bishop Gregor (back row centre) was able to enjoy the early Spring sunshine with Sydney (to his left) and members of…

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