Sentences with phrase «scottish msps»

He said: «I think people are going to come to the conclusion that the change they really want is to have a Scottish Parliament as part of the UK, not the change that the SNP want, which is the chaos of a separate state.

I'm scottish, I'm white.

She's joined the Campaign for Scottish Home Rule which is urging «meaningful and sustainable home rule» in Scotland following the referendum.

The Scottish Catholic Church has confirmed it dealt with 15 abuse allegations during 2013, six of which... More

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, Labour leader Johann Lamont and Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie were also present.

The chairman of Christian Aid also appeared to blame the ongoing debate over Europe on a growing sense of nationalism in the UK, he said: «With the Scottish independence agitation and all the questions about a federal UK quite a lot of people feel we need to affirm now what we are, what we distinctively are as English even more than British and that imperceptibly I think strengthens some of this unease about that mysterious entity called Europe which is over there.»

He said: «It looks as if they have a real lack of confidence in Scottish MSPs and Scotland as a whole to deal with matters such as that which can as we know be difficult and delicate matters to deal with.»

A Scottish clergyman is urging Christians concerned about poverty levels in the country to vote no at the referendum.

Case in point, the Scottish godfathers of soft, whispery indie music are in the middle of an American tour and accidentally left their drummer Richard Colburn in a North Dakota Walmart, clad in nothing but his jammies.

Also at the service were Better Together leader Alistair Darling, Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael and former Liberal leader Lord Steel.

«Because of the continued allocation of funds from the Barnett Formula [used to allocate Scotland's share of the UK budget], and because of the power to raise revenue within the Scottish Parliament, then the final decision about what we spend on the NHS is not going to be made by anyone outside Scotland.

«How we work together to put in place the democratic will of the Scottish people will be defining - both for us as individuals and for us we as we work to redefine our place within the United Kingdom.»

The Scottish Catholic Church has confirmed it dealt with 15 abuse allegations during 2013, six of which were historical.

The Scottish Social Attitudes revealed that Catholics gave the most support, with 60 % saying they were in favour of same sex unions.

The brainchild of a Scottish inventor Shepherd - Barron, a not - particularly famous English actor named Reg Varney was the first actor to make a withdrawal.

The leader of the SNP group on Inverclyde Council has dismissed the offer of new powers for the Scottish Parliament if the «no» vote carries at the independence referendum.

As far back as June 1982, James Barr, a Scottish Old Testament scholar and lifetime investigator of fundamentalism, wrote these words in The Current Affairs Bulletin:

Glasgow's Archbishop Philip Tartaglia was speaking after the first meeting of the Scottish Leaders» Group on Welfare Reform.

But there was Harry Lauder, the Scottish comedian, with another kind of experience altogether.

We know St. Andrew's has kept alive the fires of Scottish Patriotism and Religion in your distant land, and in particular how much our Scottish youth owe to the Christian friendship and hospitality of your people.

In Scotland there are still no university tuition fees for Scottish students, meaning that a student attending a Bible college has to pay significantly more than the country's average student.

David Hume Scottish Empiricist Philosopher, Historian, and Economist, Founder of Modern Skepticism Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)

One of nine children born to Catholic parents, Susan grew up in the small Scottish village of Blackburn.

Glasgow, Scotland (CNN)- Robert Marshall is the burly, landlord of The Louden Tavern, a pub located in the west end of the Scottish city of Glasgow, on the south bank of the same Clyde River that was once used to ferry coal and steel to the great shipbuilding companies that in the past made this area an industrial powerhouse.

A Scottish university is set to become the first UK institution to teach ministers in an African country... More

Instead of «Just as I Am,» I hear a traditional Scottish ballad as I walk down the aisle.

J. Emmette Weir, for example, has cited Juan Luis Segundo's criticism of the social ineffectiveness of the Marxist concept of religion («The Bible and Marx», Scottish Journal of Theology, August 1982) and has also noted that current exponents of liberation theology have shifted away from dependence on Marx -(«Liberation Theology Comes of Age,» Expository Times, October 1986).

When Gerard Manley Hopkins made his plea for wilderness at Inversnaid in the Scottish Highlands, he invoked the restorative clarity of God's creation.

Blaikie, R. J., «Being, Process, and Action in Modern Philosophy and Theology,» Scottish Journal of Theology 25 (May, 1972), 129.

The pub sits a mile - or - so from Celtic Park - the 60,000 - seater home ground of the 42 - time Scottish title winners - and is a much - loved stopping point for fans attending the match.

In fact, it caused some trouble during the English Civial War when the Scottish «covenanters» wanted it made explicit as a condition of their support for Parliament that no bishops would be inflicted on Scotland.

«It is a great privilege to be officially invited to offer Holy Mass within the Scottish Parliament, the first such invitation since the parliament's re-establishment 19 years ago,» he said.

The bishop in question this time is Richard Holloway of Edinburgh, the primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who gave an interview averring that there's nothing wrong with sodomy and sadomasochism so long as it is consensual.

violin solos, singing, jesus» brother bob was there, forest gump, some scottish guy in a kilt, and a redneck to give his version of a night before christmas (that was me!)

John Knox (1513 - 1572) was a Scottish priest who became a Protestant reformer and founder of Scottish Presbyterianism.

About 400 years ago a 16 year old Scottish girl claimed to have had a vision describing the Rapture.

The service will be led by the Most Rev Mark Strange, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Within the UK, Calvinism is so strongly associated with Scotland that it's easy to believe that John Calvin must have been Scottish, or at least have spent...

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He was a young Scottish pastor from the 19th Century who died when he was only 30 years old.

How can Thomas F. Torrance, a Scottish Presbyterian Reformed theologian, win the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion because of his contributions to the relationship between science and theology, as well as for assisting the Eastern Orthodox Church in its articulation of Trinitarian theology?

Explaining the delay in revealing the vote, Rev Hanna made reference to the Scottish Episcopal Church voting in favour of allowing same - sex couples to be allowed to marry in church.

After Oliver Cromwell's unexpected victory over Scottish forces who supported Charles II, around 6,000 were captured, with 1,000 of the sickest being freed.

Launched at the Scottish Parliament, What Kind of Nation?

Twentieth - Century Catholic Theologians: From Chenu to Ratzinger by fergus kerr blackwell, 240 pages, $ 29.95 Over the last decade, a Scottish Dominican named Fergus Kerr has produced a series of books designed to orient readers to contemporary trends.

In about 562, moved «by the love of Christ», he left Ireland and with twelve companions established a base on the rocky island of Iona, off the Scottish coast, from where he evangelized the mainland of Scotland and Northumbria.

A speech delivered on behalf of the Scottish Government's minister for community safety and legal affairs, Roseanna Cunningham MSP, praised the work of Christian organisations such as the Salvation Army's Greenock Floating Support services, Christians Against Poverty and the Bethany Christian Trust.

Cf. Tames M. Robinson, Theology Today, XIX (1962), 439 - 444; William O. Walker, Jr., «Demythologizing and Christology,» Religion in Life, XXXV (1965 - 1966), 67 - 80; Robert W. Funk, Language, Hermeneutic, and Word of God: The Problem of Language in the New Testament and Contemporary Theology (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), 87 - 108; Daniel L. Deegan, Scottish Journal of Theology, (March 1964), 83 - 89; Harold H. Ditmanson, Dialogue, I (1962), 75 - 78; Rudolf Bultmann, Journal of Religion, XLII (1962), 225 - 227.

I am, therefore, sympathetic to the attempt to see his divinity in his humanity and find most helpful an influential book written in 1947 by the Scottish theologian, Donald Baillie (1887 - 1954) called God Was in Christ Baillie tried to explain the incarnation in terms of the paradox of grace.

The face of a 17th century Scottish prisoner of war who died after being captured by Cromwell's troops has been revealed using the latest digital technology.