Word: columba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frees" still stay outside the Church of Scotland, constitute the small (23,375 members) Free Church of Scotland. On the same day Dr. Baillie was installed, they held their own service in St. Columba's Church, seated as their Moderator Dr. David McKenzie. Said one of them: "We have come to praise the disruption fathers, not to entomb them anew under any rearrangement of admitted facts." By & large, the good folk of Edinburgh seemed somewhat indifferent to both installations. Some citizens even derided the ceremonial pomp of the larger group. John Knox, some felt sure, would have lambasted their...
George, or Georgianna, as the case may be, was accompanied by a letter obviously written in Radcliffe script, in which the renegade mother stated that she had decided to abandon her columba to the CRIMSON as "a candidate to usurp the power of the infamous Ibis...
...reforging of links between Church and Community. Example: the lona Community, a group of young Scottish Presbyterians living on the holy isle of lona off the west coast of Scotland, whence St. Columba first brought Christianity to Scotland in 563. Declares the Community: "Never again is the Church going to dominate education or physical fitness or social life or the care of the poor; we have Christianized society sufficiently for it [society] to take over these functions. But it is still our work to permeate them, influence them and direct them...