“We are honored to stand with the Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church and its community in celebrating this momentous occasion,” said Montgomery County Executive, Marc Elrich, “The restoration of ...

While working with Hill and Adamson, Jessie Mann helped them photograph the 450 evangelical Church of Scotland ministers who broke away in the 1843 Great Disruption to establish the Free Church of ...

In 1843, 474 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church of Scotland in what became known as the Great Disruption. This new evangelical, fundamentalist Free ...

After the Disruption of 1843, the newly-formed Free Church of Scotland, which had broken away from the Kirk, set about building its own infrastructure. Much of this then passed to the Church of ...

Thomas Chalmers and Rev. David Coupar, were Burntisland men who founded the Free Church of Scotland, leaving Burntisland Church and the Church of Scotland at the ‘disruption’ of 1843.

In 1900 Bainsford like almost all Free Churches had joined with the United Presbyterians to form the United Free Church and 29 years later all but a few returned to the Church of Scotland. For all 144 ...

A major ecclesiastical schism, the ‘Disruption’ of 1843 in Scotland, led to the secession of a third of the clergy and congregation from the Church of Scotland to set up the Free Church of Scotland.

In the coming years, the Church of Scotland is expected to dispose of about 30 per cent of its churches, or between 350 and 400 buildings. The authors of the report argue that “stewardship in the ...

A screen-free church may be a big ask, but in response to such a threat, anything faithful is bound to be. Let’s not worry about how difficult making the necessary adjustments would be.

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The Church of Scotland is a sinking ship which lacks vision and is too insular, according to two Edinburgh ministers who have written a new book on what they see as the way ahead. News you can ...

The Free Church of Scotland, formed in 1843 by ministers who left the Church of Scotland due to state interference, has over 100 congregations in Scotland, North America, and London. Help us close the ...