Posted Thursday 28 October 2010
The legacy of the Scottish Reformation is to be marked with a day conference Scottish Reformation – Marking the Legacy, Imagining the Future,and an evening service at St Giles Cathedral on 3 November 2010. First Minister Alex Salmond will address the conference, which is being hosted by the Joint Commission on Doctrine and will take place at the Storytelling Centre, High Street, Edinburgh from 9am to 5.15pm. Following the conference, a service at St Giles Cathedral will take place at 6pm with guest preacher, the Very Rev Dr John Miller.
The conference includes guest speakers such as Canon Dr Alison Peden, from the Scottish Episcopal Church; historian, Professor Tom Devine, former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Very Rev Dr Sheilagh Kesting and Rev Dr Alan Falconer, Joint Convener of the Commission. Also in the line-up is Professor Paul Murray, an expert in the field of ecumenism who will be sharing the floor with Dr Kesting discussing ecumenical relations today and in the future. Each session is run along the lines of what has the Reformation done for us?
The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkled & Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church will attend the conference and take part in the service in St Giles and says “I am very much looking forward to attending the conference and taking part, with the Moderator of the General Assembly and Cardinal Keith O’Brien, in the service which will follow in St Giles’ Cathedral. It is a particular pleasure to see that Canon Dr Alison Peden, Rector of Holy Trinity, Stirling, is one of the contributors to the Conference. The Scottish Episcopal Church regards the development of ecumenical and inter-faith relationships as an important part of our witness as a Church.”
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