Comments on: Religious Tourism in Scotland https://livingchurch.org/covenant/religious-tourism-in-scotland/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:06:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Ben Lima https://livingchurch.org/covenant/religious-tourism-in-scotland/#comment-11213 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:06:23 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=80179#comment-11213 Yes, thank you for a great piece. This in the FT on East Fife was instructive: https://archive.ph/6ZsKJ

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By: David Tollefsen https://livingchurch.org/covenant/religious-tourism-in-scotland/#comment-11115 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:43:26 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=80179#comment-11115 Having been to the places mentioned, I could so easily picture this walk and reminisce of my own similar feelings in and out of the churches. St Mary’s was indeed hushed with the sacred. And St Giles is a contradictory place. Finding the memorial plate of John Knox in a parking lot confirms the contradiction to me.

I lead a group of students to Edinburgh in January. We work with a local evangelical ministry to spread the gospel on the street corners and teaching my students to share their testimonies of God’s faithfulness in their life. They are always so surprised how anyone could not have heard the gospel when there are crosses all over the skyline and the history of the city is so intertwined with Christianity. It’s eye opening to kids in a relatively Christian society that still remembers stories from the Bible.

I pray for Scotland and its faith. I labor in the fields but once or twice a year. I know the laborers are few but sometimes I don’t think the harvest is ripe yet. Winter lay fallow but the ground is warming up and the seed is being scattered. Some day the harvest will come again.

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By: Christopher R. Seitz https://livingchurch.org/covenant/religious-tourism-in-scotland/#comment-10950 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:35:59 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=80179#comment-10950 Thanks for this. I lived in Scotland for nine years and was licensed in the SEC during this time. My post at St Andrews had a notional connection to the Kirk, but the students at Scotland’s oldest university are predominantly English. Chapel was well-attended, due the work of the then Chaplain. I’ve not got the figures at my fingertips but I suspect there are only around 20K at Sunday worship in all of Scotland (SEC). The Kirk is selling off a lot of his churches and residences. (You can go online and see the inventory). I suspect the Catholic Church could be a place of eventual renewal.

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By: Jean Meade https://livingchurch.org/covenant/religious-tourism-in-scotland/#comment-10745 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:13:52 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=80179#comment-10745 Are you speaking of the Rt Reverend Richard Holloway? I’m glad to learn he’s always in church.

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By: Wat https://livingchurch.org/covenant/religious-tourism-in-scotland/#comment-10707 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:46:59 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=80179#comment-10707 Beautiful writing! And useful. Thank you.

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