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There is a rash of word C-words at every meeting of the General | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Assembly of Church of Scotland - this week, two stand out - "change" | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
and "challenge". Climate change dominated the week. | :00:23. | :00:43. | |
The way we manage our creation indicate how much disaster we will | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
experience. History was made when the Archbishop of Canterbury joined | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
the debate. Historically, we are united in witness to Christ as | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Church is shaped by the Reformation. The 50th anniversary of women elders | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
was marked. The only reason they did not appoint any women elders was | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
that their dress was more important than the women elders. We found out | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
what an artist has been doing here. The World Mission Convenor reminded | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Commissioners of the burning bush that was not consumed. What does | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
that symbolic image have to say about our attitude to creation | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
today, he asked? The commissioners from sister churches shared his | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
concern. The problem for this planet, which is our only physical | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
home, is that it is being consumed by us in all sorts of ways that are | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
quite unsustainable. Sometimes it seems like we are trashing our own | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
living room. Yes, there are practical issues, things that need | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
to be done, like changing the way we generate and use energy. But if the | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
only motivation to do any of these things is fear of the future, those | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
of us who are richer and better protected will always find ways of | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
avoiding the issue, or at least of protecting ourselves. And those who | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
are poorer and less protected will continue to suffer the most and | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
there will be no climate justice. 96% of our energy comes from our | :02:32. | :02:43. | |
hydropower and it will take at least three rainy seasons to fill those | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
dams if we will produce electricity to capacity, to meet the demands in | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
the mining sector, agriculture and other areas. God, I want to believe, | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
according to the account of Scripture, did not begin by creating | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
us in our human form, per se, but created the habitat first before the | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
inhabitants and, therefore, the way we manage our creation will, to a | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
great extent, indicate how much disaster we will experience. I would | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
like to share an observation made a number of years ago by an Inuit in | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
Canada's Arctic, and very active in her own part of Canada. She observed | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
- and she has written a book - because of the rise in temperatures | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
in the Arctic there are many, many changes that are having a direct | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
impact on the Inuit people in the Arctic. What's happening is because | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
of these changes, our right, she says, our right to be cold is being | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
taken away from us. The health of the youngest country in Africa | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
concerned many in the Hall. It is hard to describe how traumatised | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
they are and their people are and how the infrastructure of this, the | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
newest nation in the world, has completely fallen apart. And while | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
international leaders may meet around peace-making tables, what | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
they produce are perhaps cease-fires, they produce moments | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
when there's a little bit of calm but who is doing anything to rebuild | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
the community and the communities at grassroots? We hope that when we are | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
able to go there, some time later this year, that there will be an | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
opportunity to spend the Church's money well, to use its resources, to | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
help the frail and faltering peoples and the frail and faltering Church | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
at the moment. Everything is relying on the Churches in South Sudan to | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
provide education, to provide children's homes, to provide | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
hospitals, to provide medical aid, to provide everything. And that's | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
the situation there. It is absolutely horrendous and I would | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
commend every church to become involved in helping in any way | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
whatsoever. Thank you Church of Scotland for what you are doing. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
Kirk Action prioritises the education of girls. Malawi has about | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
80% Christians, but gender violence is one of the issues that is very | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
high. In addressing it, any other institution cannot succeed if the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Church is left out. It is for this reason that Moderator I want to | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
thank the Church of Scotland and the UK Government for engaging the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Church in fighting against gender-based virus. I want to | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
congratulate the Church of Scotland for continuing to highlight issues | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
of gender violence. This has been a grave concern in north India, in | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
different parts of India, violence of women has been increasing and I, | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
on behalf of the Diocese of Calcutta, ask for your prayers and | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
your support so that we can further this kind of a campaign to stop | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
violence against women. Thank you. Violence towards women hasn't been | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
eradicated in Scotland, either. But in other ways, Scotland has been in | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
pole position. For instance, it is 50 years since it started ordaining | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
women as elders. And that was commemorated in an afternoon of | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
memories here at the Assembly. We have had a few changes and | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
challenges. Problems as a female elder, well perhaps one or two, if | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
I'm going to be honest, I well remember offering to speak to | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
persuade them to convert our tenure into full status. I suspect I looked | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
up at the right moment, or the wrong moment. I did it and whether it was | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
because of my speech or not we were successful. I was congratulated by a | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
number of my colleagues including one of my male fellow elders, | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
shaking his head. Well done, but I'm still surprised we couldn't get a | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
man to do that! I know that some people in the Church may be | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
uncomfortable with the idea of women elders. I can only speak for myself, | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
it feels right for me to serve in this way. I have weaknesses and | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
blind spots, don't we all? But I, like so many women, have some skills | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
that God has given me. I have opportunities to deploy those skills | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
in his Church and I believe he expects me to use them in his | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
service. I'm immensely grateful to that General Assembly of 1966 for | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
having the foresight, the courage and the faith to allow that route to | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
open up for me and for so many other women. I was a student minister, I | :08:32. | :08:43. | |
was the first woman they had ever had as a student in the pulpit. The | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
Kirk Session wore the striped trousers, the frock coats and the | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
white bow ties. And I went to the Kirk Session and this was a big | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
thing that I was allowed into their Kirk Session, all-male Kirk Session. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
They were discussing having new members to the Kirk Session and they | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
had a big discussion about women elders. And the reason, the only | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
reason they did not appoint any women elders was that their dress of | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
the white bow ties and the striped trousers and the black frock coats | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
was more important than the women elders. So that Sunday, at that | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
communion, with my black gown - your sleeves go right through - I wore | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
the brightest red, blue and white-striped shirt that I could | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
find... As ever, a wide range of nations and | :09:49. | :10:07. | |
names were gathered here. This year, for the first time ever, they were | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
joined by an artist-in-residence. What is an artist doing here? The | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
theme for the week is 'People of the Way'. Jesus meets disciples and asks | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
them what is it that you are talking about as you are walking along the | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
way? The people here in the painting raises the question, what are these | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
people talking about as they are walking along? One of the most | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
interesting parts of the process for me is the interaction with folks | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
when I'm working so we wanted to give people at the Assembly an | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
experience of what it is like to have an artist-in-residence. Lots of | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
curiosity, lots of people wondering why we would be having an artist | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
working at the General Assembly. And some folks start to wonder how would | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
this work in my own Church context? I started as artist-in-residence in | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Glasgow, folks come in for a coffee, for a scone, but then notice there | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
is an artist working in the corner. And I have worked on a Last Supper | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
piece. Lots of folks would come up and start a conversation and they | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
were curious about what was going on and they start asking me questions | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
about Jesus. The Church and Society Council's | :11:28. | :11:45. | |
report was wide-ranging. It also included reference to climate | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
change. It stimulated lively debate. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Moderator, there is no doubt that our overdependence on fossil fuel | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
has wreaked havoc on our planet home. We have a responsibility to | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
reduce our carbon footprint and forge a path free of fossil fuels. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
We must untie ourselves from that dependence. The Council brings a | :12:13. | :12:26. | |
report. We call for consideration of how we need companies to move away | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
from fossil fuel dependence. There have been many warning calls from | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
sources as diverse as the Governor of the Bank of England and Pope | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
Francis saying that a move to renewable energy is a crucial part | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
of the mix. The Church can either be a signpost pointing the way or a | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
weather vane swaying with the status quo. My fear is, that man-made | :12:47. | :12:58. | |
global warming has been added to the Westminster confessional faith, as | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
part of the crux. I speak now as a professional scientist, who has been | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
involved in this stuff for over 40 years. Climate change depends on so | :13:10. | :13:21. | |
many variables. It would almost be better not to use computer models, | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
which can't handle clouds or water vapour, which are the key greenhouse | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
gases. Carbon dioxide is just a trace gas. The Pope would have us | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
believe that global warming is the cause of everything, but the fact | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
is, in all the years since Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, that ridiculous | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
disaster movie, none of his predictions have come true and, in | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
fact, for the last two decades, there has been no global warming at | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
all. If you look at the figures, you will find that this is not rubbish. | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
Even supposing we were responsible for climate change, there is an | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
arrogance about thinking that we, as human beings, can change that and do | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
anything about it, when it is a far more complicated thing than about | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
how much carbon dioxide we are pumping into the atmosphere. There | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
are many things out there over which we have got no control whatsoever | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
and there is an arrogance there and we need to be aware of that. I | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
didn't want to speak. But I can't believe we are having this debate | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
now. This is long past debating, whether there is any climate change | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
or not. I would urge the General Assembly simply to support the | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Council's work because how can we look the people who are suffering | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
the consequences of this wealthy society in the eye when they are | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
suffering for our comforts? I wish first of all to apologise for | :14:56. | :15:06. | |
making an outburst during a previous speech by Doctor Kamran, it is not | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
acceptable I understand for commissioners to do so, but I was | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
astonished by his claim of science on the comments that he had made. We | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
have seen in the last two years all global temperature record broken, | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
both of the last two years, 2016 is expected to break them again. It is | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
a scientific reality. And the rise in carbon dioxide in the past | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
century is measurable, significant and a major factor driving climate | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
change. Yesterday, we heard powerful stories from our partners across the | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
globe about the devastating effects of climate change and those who have | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
had leased to do with it are the ones hardest first hit and have the | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
least capacity to respond. With all due respect, 98%, over 98% of your | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
colleagues, Doctor Cameron, profoundly disagree with you and | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
believe firmly that this is something that humanity has caused | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
and we can do something about. In the end, the motion, or deliverance, | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
on climate justice, including disinvestment from fossil fuel firms | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
was comfortably carried. It was a different matter when the | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
recommendation to call from the removal of Scottish law for the | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
defence of justifiable assault in cases of corporal punishment of | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
children was debated. According to a report for the Scottish Commissioner | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
of young people and children, children first and Barnardos and the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
NSPCC, there is convincing evidence that declines in physical punishment | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
are accelerated in countries that have prohibited issues and such laws | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
have important symbolic value. Legislation is the way society sets | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
frames for what is acceptable. The children lived with violence, how | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
can they learn to be peacemakers? If we as a society accept violence as a | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
justifiable way to respond, how can we build a more peaceful future? | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
When I a little girl living in a housing scheme in Motherwell, it was | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
a lovely summer day and my friends roundabout were going fishing for | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
minnows down at the River Clyde and I was asked to go with them and I | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
knew that my mother wouldn't let me go if I went in to ask her, because | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
she liked to know that we were playing in the street. But I also | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
knew that if I went, I would have to take my wee brother with me, because | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
he would go in and tell. So my friends Julie gave me a Julie jaw | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
for my brother, with a string tied around it, and down we went to the | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
River Clyde. And as all children do, you lose track of time, you don't | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
have a watch and I could not tell you how many hours we were away. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
Well, we came back with our minnows and I turned the corner at the | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
bottom of our street and I saw my mother running down the street | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
towards me. So smiles and holding my wee brother's hand, I said, I have | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
such an adventure to tell you. The minnows and the toy went on my | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
backside was leathered up to the House. And it is a lesson I have | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
never, ever forgotten, it will be with me to my dying day, that you do | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
not go anywhere unless you tell your mother. It should not be a first | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
option, but it should be if ever, if ever, a last resort that hand is | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
raised towards a child, because children are mirrors, mirrors of | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
what we do, how we live, how we interact with one another. Trust me, | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
I know, I have a four-year-old two-year-old who played church at | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
home, I know what my minister's voice sounds like. I also know what | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
my angry voice sounds like. I have heard my four-year-old react towards | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
his sister in the same way I have reacted towards him and I have | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
cowered in shame and begged his forgiveness, because I know I have | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
not shown him the love that I have been called to show as a mother and | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
as a Christian and as a minister. I think taken to its logical | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
conclusion, deliverance is five, six and seven are going to see loving | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
parents standing in the dock charged with assault. Now I am not | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
advocating that we all go around slapping our children, but like the | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
majority of children in here, I am also of the generation that got a | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
scalp on the legs when I needed it and I have not turned into someone | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
who is beating up the children in my church are regular basis. Maybe I | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
should take out the word "Regular". I hear what you are saying, but what | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
this is asking you to do is fundamentally to give children the | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
same rights under the law as adults. There is absolutely no evidence in | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
other countries of any increase in the criminalisation of parents, | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
quite the opposite. What it has done has raised awareness and changed | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
behaviours in society. And I would strongly resist the idea that | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
violence is a discipline that helps children. I have a friend who called | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
me one time, this was years ago, and she was really, really upset with | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
herself and she said the penny had dropped and this is why. Her kids | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
were fighting and she yanked the older one and the younger one apart, | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
the old one had been hitting his brother, and she smacked him and | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
said "Don't hit." How is that teaching a non-violent, peacemaking, | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
Consul to TIFF -- Consul to give way of being? Voting for section five, | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
275, the voting against section five, 259. So no smacking was | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
supported by a narrow margin. One big challenge is money, and the | :21:17. | :21:33. | |
lack of it. For the first time, however, we see the Congregational | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
offerings are not increasing and remained in 2015 at about their 2014 | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
level of 71 points ?6 million. This is unlikely to be exceptional. It | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
reinforces the need to manage our resources carefully. Our work can | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
only continue as God's people give and we can only spend what we | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
receive. And local authority grants for the Kirk's social care | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
programmes, some of the largest in the land, have been cut. So voting | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
to pay social workers the living wage is going to be a challenge. I | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
note with interest the council's continued commitment to delivering | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
the minimum wage and as a worker for cross ridge, I can wholeheartedly | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
say it was the hardest but most rewarding I have been in and I would | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
recommend the work of Crossreach to anyone who would listen. But the | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
failure to pay the minimum wage some four years after the General | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
Assembly instructed it is becoming embarrassing and hypocrisy at the | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
highest level of this church. As you have heard, there are some real | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
pressures in the church at the current time, in terms of a flat | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
Congregational income and cost pressures from the living wage. But | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
it is not just those two issues, there are broader issues, including | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
the significant amount of income that the church receives from local | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
Government and the Scottish Government to fund our social care | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
activities. It goes without saying that that income is under pressure | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
as well as local authorities and the Government wrestled with their | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
priorities. So the income side, there are some real tensions. On the | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
cost side, there is the living wage, the church wants to do that, but | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
there are other activities such as supporting our ministries, engaging | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
with society, so we are going to have do undertake a very careful | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
examination of our current position to balance, or try to balance, our | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
income and our expenditure. So in the short term, the church will | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
continue to use its reserves, as it has been doing, but in the medium | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
term, it will need to identify a clear set of priorities, increasing | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
resources into some areas and perhaps withdrawing them from other | :23:56. | :23:56. | |
areas. Call it a change, call it a cameo | :23:57. | :24:11. | |
appearance. What is sure is that the participation of the Archbishop of | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
Canterbury, Justin Welby, in the ecumenical relations debate, | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
following last year's so-called columbo agreement, which brought the | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
churches of Scotland and England closer together, was an historic | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
event. Politically, we are united in witness to Christ by R, national | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
context, including the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014, the | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
recent elections and the imminent referendum on EU membership. Christ | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
who made us his holy nation calls us, whatever our views on Europe, to | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
live out that unity. Historically, we are united in witness to Christ | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
as churches shaped by the Reformation, with its 500th | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
anniversary next year. Including the inheritance of reform theology. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
Jesus meters through the tumult of historic wars -- meets us. And holds | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
out nail in printed hands calling for love, for witness to the good | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
news, not to be perpetrators of the bad. Economic really -- | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
economically, we are united by the growing inequality of our land, by | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
the suffering of the poor, including food insecurity. Jesus sits with the | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
poor as we stand before them. In judgment on our disunity. Globally, | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
we are united in witness to Christ as churches called to | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
reconciliation. Recognising our relationship has been marked by | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
conflict including violence and bloodshed in earlier centuries, but | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
now demonstrating what it means to live well with difference in unity | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
in the context of religiously motivated violence in many parts of | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
the world. Jesus calls from the camps and the roads, from the | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
violated women and orphaned children, the traumatised soldiers. | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
Will we show good disagreement? The Assembly ratified the columbo | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
agreement, as an English Synod has done. Given the Archbishop's pension | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
of disagreement, what is the significance? The most significant | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
part is recognising each other as churches. That is a huge step and | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
once you have recognised each other as the church, there is a massive | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
impulse to develop that into a deeper and deeper relationship, both | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
in the United Kingdom and internationally. And as the | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Moderator, the Right Reverend Doctor Russell Barr, agreed. It has been | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
historic. It is one of the quirks of our history which has its roots in | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
quite violent times in the 17th century in Britain and Ireland, that | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
our churches have never actually formally recognised each other. Yes, | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
why now? Because we realised that North and south of the border, we | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
share many similar challenges and many similar opportunities. Why now? | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
It is really a fundamental Christian principle and rather just look at | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
the things that separate us, we would decide to look at the things | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
we share an CV can share them better, the things we already doing | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
and see if we can do them better. Christian people are not allowed to | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
walk past on the other side of human need. North and south of the border, | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
there are tens of thousands of people who are homeless, hundreds of | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
thousands of people who are using food banks, and we could do | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
something to change that. Why now? Because North and south of the | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
border, we want to tell people about the hopes and promises of the | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
Christian faith. That is why and that is why now. So at the end of | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
the week, for People of the Way, walk on with their core faith and | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
principles strengthened by what happened here. Some things don't | :28:26. | :28:26. | |
change. Goodbye. We haven't really wakened up to the | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
implications of Brexit for Scotland. both in Scotland and abroad | :28:32. | :29:12. | |
to find out. We've built our business models | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
around EU membership, Brussels seemed to have more | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
and more control. It was like a noose round our neck | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
all the time. Once upon a time, there was | :29:27. | :29:35. | |
a great and glorious king. But they would | :29:36. | :29:44. | |
all see him destroyed. | :29:45. | :29:48. |