An historic church in East Lothian has undergone a groundbreaking six-month refurbishment to update the building for the 21st century.

A former Kirk Moderator embarked on a voyage of nostalgia that proved to be a real “shock to the system”.

Rev Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and inspirational founder of the HeartEdge movement, will deliver the 2019 Chalmers Lectures this autumn. Entitled ‘A Future that’s Bigger than the Past’, the six lectures will focus on the theology and methods of HeartEdge as a vision for renewal in the Church.

A play about the wartime exploits of a Church of Scotland minister is being performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time.

Rev Pamela Gordon, the minister at Bourock Parish Church in Barrhead, raised an impressive £1,650 in aid of CrossReach during her skydive over Auchterarder in Perthshire on Saturday 13 July.

A Kirk minister criss-crossed the Isle of Skye for 155 miles on foot to raise money to visit his congregation’s new partner church in the Middle East.

Granton Goes Greener, an environmental group part-funded by the Kirk’s Go For It Fund, has gone from strength to strength since its formation three years ago. The group, run by Granton Parish Church in Edinburgh, works with the local community to care for God’s creation by holding upcycling workshops, family fun days, school uniform swap shops and guided cycling tours.

He was a child prodigy and plays improvised music for silent movies from the Scottish Film Archive.