- General Election in the second half of the year.
- “…and as the polls close, our exit poll predicts that the Conservative Party is unlikely to be able to form a new government…”
- The next but one leader of the Conservative Party becomes Ruth Davidson MP.
- The hipsters get bored of vinyl and discover cameras with actual, you know, film.
- No date for a new referendum on Scottish Independence.
- No progress for LGBT affirming Anglicans in England.
- Progress for LGBT affirming Anglicans elsewhere, particularly Brazil.
- Increasing realisation that sexual abuse is part of church culture. #churchtoo #metoo.
- FTSE lower at the end of 2018 than it is at the beginning. (7687)
- The end of the beard.
3 responses to “Overseas Committee”
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Synod hears presentation from Jubilee Scotland. Duncan McCosh is now willing to take questions.
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George Taggert – from St Oswald’s King’s Park. Wants to speak at his last synod to give hope. Says that his whole congregation has 70 000 in an account doing nothing. In the spirit of the Jubilee gave £7000 from that legacy to a mission giving food to those who could not afford to buy food. They want to see their numbers grow but/and think their jubilee return of money to the poor is a good thing. Would love to think that the sense of Jubilee carries on.
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Synod thanks Duncan McCosh for his convenership from which he now retires.
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