Church of Scotland
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Oct 31, 2026
R. Scott ClarkHOST
Yeah, on English popish ceremonies obtruding themselves lately.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
on the Church of Scotland or something like that.
Scott McDermottHOST
Those are the
R. Scott ClarkHOST
worst
NellyHOST
Catholic remnants of pagan pasts.
NellyHOST
The Kirk of Scotland especially declared war on the old rituals.
NellyHOST
Bonfires, masks, and divination games were outlawed as heathen vanities.
NellyHOST
Women who had once gazed into mirrors to divine their future husbands now risked being accused of witchcraft.
NellyHOST
Catholic remnants of pagan pasts.
NellyHOST
The Kirk of Scotland especially declared war on the old rituals.
NellyHOST
Bonfires, masks, and divination games were outlawed as heathen vanities.
NellyHOST
Women who had once gazed into mirrors to divine their future husbands now risked being accused of witchcraft.
Niall PatersonHOST
I am something of a lapsed Christian.
Niall PatersonHOST
It's been a long time since I was in the boys' brigade of the Church of Scotland, but I do remember my Ezekiel.
Niall PatersonHOST
I mean, whatever happened to the idea that the sins of the father are not the sins of the son? Because ultimately, in essence, what we are asking is for people who have no direct link to those admittedly despicable, horrific acts to they are being asked to compensate for them.
Patrick VernonGUEST
So we're not looking at individuals, we're talking about institutions.
Kate ForsythGUEST
So she was going to be a locus for his rage and his continual demeaning and undermining of her.
Kate ForsythGUEST
He had tried, the Protestants had seized the Church of Scotland while she was still in France, and so she was a Catholic queen in a Protestant country.
Kate ForsythGUEST
And John Knox had tried to force through various different acts which made adultery a capital crime, that made abortion, which they called infanticide, a capital crime, and which made any kind of fornication by women a highly punishable crime, and also made the act of what he called idolatry, which included things like crossing yourself or praying to Virgin Mary, a capital crime.
Kate ForsythGUEST
And Mary, Queen of Scots, refused to pass those laws.
GraceHOST
Yeah, in Scotland, about five times more people per capita were executed than in the rest of Europe.
GraceHOST
In 2022, the Scottish government and the Church of Scotland both did an official apology for the witch trials, which was quite a big thing.
GraceHOST
And I think understandably because it was much, much worse here than anywhere else.
GraceHOST
I would say as quickly as this royal hysteria around witches arrived, it dissipated.
Chad Van DixhoornGUEST
one or two of those? Yes.
Chad Van DixhoornGUEST
So Alexander Henderson is the sort of senior statesman of the Church of Scotland.
Chad Van DixhoornGUEST
He was there at the assembly.
Chad Van DixhoornGUEST
George Gillespie was one of the younger men at the assembly, a witty, erudite, articulate young Scotsman.
Ethelene Bhagandai MooreGUEST
And that, that was no problem because I'm Presbyterian.
Ethelene Bhagandai MooreGUEST
And of course the queen is the head of the Presbyterian church because the Presbyterian is the church of Scotland.
Ethelene Bhagandai MooreGUEST
and he was Anglican and the queen is also the head
Jonny PardoeHOST
of
Nick NeedhamGUEST
And that then coincided with my coming up to Scotland to study at university, which was in Edinburgh.
Nick NeedhamGUEST
And I attached myself to an evangelical Church of Scotland congregation, which again had a very, very fine expository preaching ministry.
Sean DeMarsHOST
And then how did you get into writing history?
Nick NeedhamGUEST
Yeah, well, writing history.
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Nick NeedhamGUEST
What about audio? Oh, you mean I can't have John Chrysostom in audio? In audio, maybe, with AI.
Nick NeedhamGUEST
So this is someone from the last roughly 100 years of Well, maybe I would choose a preacher I sat under for nostalgic reasons.
Nick NeedhamGUEST
And there was a great Church of Scotland evangelical preacher called James Phillip, whose sermons were out of this world.
Nick NeedhamGUEST
You would sit there for 45 minutes, just agape, listening to James Phillip's sermons.
Simon WhistlerHOST
But it was no use, as his son became more and more convinced that the two disciplines could be reconciled together.
Simon WhistlerHOST
At one point, the family abandoned the Church of Scotland and joined a congregational church, and this introduced David Livingstone to a few people who would have a great influence over his outlook on life.
Simon WhistlerHOST
First was the American Presbyterian minister, Charles Finney, who was one of the leaders of a religious movement known as the Second Great Awakening in the United States.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Finney was a staunch abolitionist who considered slavery a great sin, and also worked with the Underground Railroad to provide runaway slaves with safe passage to Canada.
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