General Assembly 2007: Kirk Once Spoke in a Voice of Thunder. Does It No Longer Know What to Say?
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IT SAID no to nuclear weapons, yes to troops out of Iraq and a resounding "Hmm, we'll get back to you" on the morality of gay relationships.
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland drew to a close yesterday after a week of debate and deliberation which saw Scotland's "national" Church scrutinise everything from human trafficking to the correct weight of a hymn book.See the full content of this document
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General Assembly 2007: Kirk Once Spoke in a Voice of Thunder. Does It No Longer Know What to Say?
Yet has the voice of the Kirk in annual communion now trailed to a faint whisper of what it once was, muttering only to itself, where it once spoke loudly for a nation? Or, is it in a transitional stage, negotiating the swift currents of an increasingly secular society, losing ground, but far from being swept ...
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