CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The Church of Scotland’s General Assembly on Monday (May 20) passed a historic vote to allow actively gay men and lesbians to become ordained ministers. After more than six ...

(UPDATED) Traditionalist minority worry disagreement on the issue will make it harder to work together on mission. Update (May 23): Church of Scotland ministers are now permitted to perform same-sex ...

A hundred years ago there was a Presbyterian clergyman in Scotland who could make lectures on mathematics so stirring that the authorities at St. Andrews, fearful of the excitement thus roused in the ...

Pope Francis, Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and the Rev. Jim Wallace, moderator of the Church of Scotland, marked the 10th anniversary of South Sudan's independence and again promised ...

ONE of the popular stereotypes about Scotland is that it remains, along with Northern Ireland, one of the last places in Europe where members of rival Christian groups view one another with serious ...