Thursday April 18
April 1954: Christianity in the USSR
April 1964: New Role for People's Palace
March 1944: Nelson Eddy sings at worship in Aden
March 1964: Peace Society Merger
March 1954: The Story of Margaret
February 1964: "We are living in a tremendous time."
February 1934: Revised Church Hymnary controversy
February 1974: 'Cosmobile' Commissioned
January 1954: Life and Work Readers Help UNICEF
January 1964: Prayer - The Church's First Work
January 1954: Working With Their Own Hands
December 1963: Child in the Manger
December 1973: Commemoration of Dr Candlish
December 1923: The Temperance Act
November 1953: Capital Punishment
November 1943: In the Midst of the Golden Candlesticks
November 1933: Broadcasting in Scotland
October 1933: The Church Museum
October 1983: The Lighter Side of Baptism
October 1953: Church and Art Should Have the Same Voice
October 1983: Specialist Ministries
September 1903: How Can A Restored Cathedral of Iona Be Most Worthily Used?
September 1973: The Caring City
September 1933: The Value of an Elder's Visit
September 1953: Scotland and Norway
August 1963: Shortage of Ministry Candidates
August 1893: A Prison Chaplain's Notes
July 1973: The 'Yes-but' Man Cometh...
July 1933: Notes of the Woman's Guild Meeting
July 1953: Queen Elizabeth II Receives Honours of Scotland
July 1973: Enjoying, Exploring and Understanding the Bible
June 1923: Famine in Nyasaland
June 1973: Ministering in Northern Ireland
June 1923: Humours of the Front
June 1973: We've Been 'in Europe' for 400 Years
May 1953: This Bell Unites Old and New
May 1923: Eastern Himalayan Mission
May 1953: The Minister's Wife in the Ancestry of Our Queen
April 1933: The Hymns Children Like
April 1963: From 'Pub' to Kirk House
March 1913: The Cleric on Holiday
March 1943: The Rebuilding of the Walls
March 1923: Bad Coins in the Collection
March 1973: Help For Young Scots in London
March 1963: My Grandfather - David Livingstone
February 1933: The Journey Back
February 1943: A Padre in the Desert
February 1963: Pioneering Industrial Chaplaincies
January 1963: Prayer Knocked Down This Aberdeen Slum!
December 1972: W is for Wise Men
December 1962: Recovery of Christmas
December 1962: Have You Done Your Christmas Shopping Yet?
December 1932: Only a Little Child
November 1912: Some Churches in Which Sir Walter Scott Worshipped
November 1972: Fun and Games at the Netherbow
November 1942: Miami Sunday Morning
November 1952: The Tron Moves Out
October 1932: A Man's Life: A Miner MP
October 1972: Where Have All The Preachers Gone?
October 1982: What Keeps Me Going
October 1962: Kirk Week at the Grassroots
September 1932: A Type of Jumble Sale to Copy
September 1962: Lawyers of the World Unite
September 1972: Should Christians Engage in Politics?
August 1932: Our Attitude During Prayer
August 1962: "This Do" in an Eventide Home
August 1932: Model Ships in Churches
August 1972: Friendly Isle of Peace
July 1932: Association for Temperance
July 1982: Is Your Church Much Prayed In?
July 1962: Pavement Without Pillows
July 1982: An 'Enriching Experience' With the Falklands Task Force
June 1962: New Thrusts in Scottish Parishes
June 1972: Scots Abroad Keep in Touch
June 1962: Breakthrough to Uninterested Youth
June 1982: If I Walk the Wild Moors...
May 1952: The Significance of the 'Courtesies'
May 1962: Scot will be Nigeria's Flying Doctor
April 1952: Youth Assembly Fills a Gap
April 1942: A Service In The Desert
April 1962: First Presbyterian in Space
April 1972: Death of an Editor
April 1939: Refugee Work in Scotland
March 1967: Explosion in the Pacific
March 1967: 'I Felt Compelled To Go'
March 1947: Church Arts Centre
February 1959: The Children's Project
February 1969: Faith of the Fisherman
February 1968: Bound for Grand Bahama
February 1957: Christmas for Hungarian Refugees
January 1947: In Scottish POW Camps
January 1936: The Sailor's Ark
January 1915: Moderator's Visit to the Western Isle in Pictures
December 1948: Christmas Day With Mary Slessor
December 1946: Jesus the Carpenter
November 1927: The Revised Church Hymnary
November 1967: Requiem for a Padre
November 1949: Memories in the Flowers
November 1944: A Link with Caen
October 1963: The Final Frontier
October 1938: Christian Highway
October 1938: A Moderator's Tour
October 1957: Children's Church is Opened
September 1959: A Pioneering Deaconness
September 1946: 'When On the Day of My Life Night Is Falling'. What Then?
September 1936: Etubom Cruickshank
September 1943: The Church in the Desert and A Bible Lost At Dunkirk
September 1946: At The Seaside
August 1916: The Scottish Churches Huts in France
August 1956: Must Fair Isle Become Another St Kilda?
August 1941: A Minister in Orkney
August 1967: Ecumenical Chapel Opens At Butlins, Ayr
July 1906: The Old Schoolmaster
July 1967: A Cry from the Skerries
July 1949: Epic of the Scots Memorial
July 1956: Church with a Bold Policy
June 1987: The Guild's Centenary Celebration
June 1924: A Letter From India
June 1956: First Dock Chaplain
June 1946: News of Jane Haining
May 1908: Fifty General Assemblies
July 1966: General Assembly of 1966 admits women elders
May 1969: Phoenix at Inchinnan
May 1954: 50 Years of Social Service
April 1968: Dog With A Bank Account
April 1939: Why I Am Joining the Church
April 1965: Good New Ideas In Church Building
April 1956: Preparations and Reports on 'Tell Scotland' Rallies
March 1965: My Faith and My Job
March 1956: Scotswoman Amongst The Chinese Poor
March 1938: St Margaret of Scotland
March 1957: Before The Office Opens
February 1947: Travelling Bookshop
February 1934: The 'Codex Sinaiticus'
February 1945: The Career of the Woman's Guild 'Mobile'
January 1957: The Church on Wheels
January 1965: 'I Worked With Mary Slessor'
January 1956: The New St Columba's
January 1966: Night Patrol Padre
December 1949: 'She Only Has Eyes For Him'
December 1949: Fishermen Sing 'Ye Gates Lift Up Your Heads'
December 1944: Service In A Cinema
November 1954: Scots in Patagonia
November 1945: Exploring the Call to Ministry in Libya
November 1935: Andrew Carnegie
October 1938: The Iona Community - What is and What it is not by George MacLeod
October 1964: Harvest of New Churches
October 1974: The World's Debt to Henry Duncan
October 1956: Repairing Highland Churches
September 1928: Lunderston Bay Camp
September 1958: The Wall Street Church
September 1970: Sermons in Star Trek
September 1974: Barclay Retires
August 1939: The Church on the Sands
August 1913: Scotland's First Church Organ
July 1887: The Founding of the Diaconate
July 1906: The Old Schoolmaster
July 1915: A Chaplain at the Dardanelles
July 1970: The Commonwealth Games
June 1945: Reflections on VE Day
May 1946: A Gallant Congregation
May 1928: With the Fisher Folks
May 1935: A Woman Organist's Adventure
May 1954: The Church Led The Way
April 1950: In Memory of Sir Harry Lauder
March 1970: Communion at Golgotha
March 1910: The Founder of Sunday schools in Britain
March 1940: Waiting to be Called Up
March 1970: The Ministry of Listening
February 1950: Scots History In A Bible
February 1970: This is Shetland
February 1930: Mummies in Dublin
January 1970: Moses Stone Fragment Unveiled In Fraserburgh Ceremony
January 1940: Einstein's Tribute to the Church
December 1969: The Man Who Met Christ in Rangoon
December 1939: The BBC and Morning Prayer
December 1979: The Sky At Christmas
November 1939: From Town To Village
November 1969: Deaf for the Day
October 1969: Communion on the Moon
October 1989: Ten Years of Traidcraft
September 1939: The Inventor of the Bicycle
September 1949: The Symbol from Amsterdam
September 1969: Transplants In Order
September 1959: A Pioneering Deaconess
August 1949: Faith and Vision Rewarded
August 1959: 353,750 New Houses Since The War
July 2009: Desmond Tutu at the General Assembly
July 1969: The Queen's speech to the General Assembly
July 1949: The Epic of the Scots Memorial, Jerusalem
July 1929: The First Royal Lord High Commissioner
June 1959: The Queen Mother at the Scots Kirk in Rome
June 1969: The benefactor of Boganlochy
June 1939: Church of the Forest Tribes, by Dr John Graham
June 1959: New Scots Kirk for Paris
July 1929: Church Union Agreed
May 1959: "I Was Nursed by Livingstone's 'Boys'"
April 1959: Floating Parish at Aden
April 1969: Thank God for Karl Barth
March 1919: Are we Downhearted?
February 1909: Charteris Memorial
February 1959: Lesslie Newbigin on church growth in India
January 1939: Scots Kirk, Madeira
January 1879: Life and Work, issue one page one
December 1958: Princess Margaret at Eventide Home
November 1948: Manse Family Since Waterloo
November 1938: The Empire Exhibition
November 1918: Chaplains' Letters
October 1958: Could You Be A Missionary?
October 1968: Telstar the Spur
September 1958: The Cross and the Atom at the Brussels International Exhibition
August 1978: Craigneuk Plastics
August 1938: The Scots Kirk, Bombay
August 1908: Scottish Navvy Mission
August 1928: The World Press Exhibition
August 1958: Discovery of Columba's Cell?
July 1948: When Christians Differ
July 1958: First Overseas Bishop was a Presbyterian
June 1948: A Play's Part in the Reformation
June 1938: Panjab Village Church
June 1948: Moderator in Palestine
June 1908: Tribute to Archibald Charteris
June 1958: Worship on the Ark Royal
April 1918: The Road to Emmaus Under Fire
April 1938: The Grand Old Lady of the Church
March 1948: 'He is Still Bidding Men'
February 1938: With the Territorials
January 1968: A Woman Minister from Germany
January 1888: Cave Worship in the Highlands
January 1958: The Tartan Pimpernel
December 1967: Harlequins, Holly and Robins
December 1957: A Call for a Stoppage of Nuclear Weapons
December 1917 - A Visit to the WAAC in France
November 1937 - Camping with the Campers
October 1967 - A Light in the Darkness
October 1937 - Worldwide ecumenical conference in Edinburgh
September 1957 - Schweitzer Film at Edinburgh Festival
September 1967 - Cameronians on Duty
October 1964 - The Opening of the Forth Road Bridge
August 1947 - Ministers or Monkeys?
August 1937 - The 800th anniversary of 'the wonder and glory of the north'
July 1977 - The Queen addresses the General Assembly
July 1967 - A Cry from the Skerries
July 1957 - Kintyre Pilgrimage Led by Moderator
June 1967 - In New Housing Areas and Three Fife Churches Costing £160,000
June 1927 - 'Red-Letter Day' for St Andrew's Jerusalem
April 1927 - The Road to Emmaus
March 1957 - Before the Office Opens
January 1957 - The Church on Wheels
December 1946 - The Man who cried "Why?"
December 1956 - The Church of Scotland in Malta
November 1946 - "I Was in Prison"
October 1966 - Five Buses to Sunday School
October 1956 - Repairing Highland Churches
August 1966 - This Man Barclay
July 1941 - St Columba's, Pont Street
July 1966 - A Counter to Emigration
May 1906 - Boys' Home in Glasgow
May 1946 - A Gallant Congregation
April 1946 - How Scotland helped Norway
April 1936 - The Moderator's visit to the Sudan and Egypt
March 1956 - Scotswoman Amongst the Chinese Poor
February 1916 - "It was Jess that saved me"
February 1966 - Sunday School Experiment in Alloa
January 1936 - The Old Sailor's Ark
November 1945 - Exploring the call to ministry in Libya
November 1965 - Edinburgh Church Builds Its Own Hall
October 1955 - Refugees Appeal
October 1940 - A Summer Play School
October 1965 - 320 Children Came to the 'Pi Club'
September 1970 - Sermons in Star Trek
August 1970 - Colour, cricket and calypso
August 1915 - Among Scots at Malta
August 1935 - At Home in the World
July 1900 - Children's Seaside Services
July 1970 - The Commonwealth Games
July 1915 - A Chaplain at the Dardanelles
July 1925 - Scots in Patagonia
June 1960 - A Dramatic Vote on Women Elders
May 1935 - Why the Fear of Science?
March 1935 - Message from a Thousand Years Ago
February 1945 - The Career of the Woman's Guild "Mobile"
February 1940 - The mission to Palestine and the Presbytery of Jerusalem.
February 1950 - Scots History in a Bible
February 1965 - Ordained in his own 'tongue'
January 1915 - The Western Isles in pictures
January 1940 - An Unusual Form of Evangelism
January 1965 - "I Worked with Mary Slessor"
December 1949 - "She has eyes only for Him"
December 1949 - Fishermen sing 'Ye Gates, Lift Up Your Heads"
December 1944 - Service in a Cinema
November 1954 - Scots in Patagonia
November 1939 - The Church and the Evacuees
April 1916 - Funeral Amidst the Gunfire
October 1974 - The minister who set up the world's first savings bank
October 1954 - WCC Second Assembly in the US
September 1934 - Dr Robert Laws tribute
September 1939 - Christian youth meet in Amsterdam.
September 1974 - Barclay retires
August 1904: Impressions of Australia
August 1964 - Church in East Berlin
August 1939 - The Church on the Sands
August 1979 - Apart From "Religious" Television.... What About The Non "God-Slots"?
July 1954 - Lepers in Scotland - and in Nigeria
July 1969 - The incidental benefits of space travel
July 1964 - Nyasaland - Malawi Independence Day
June 1974 - Towards a Lay Tradition
June 1879 - Miss Walker Arnott's School at Jaffa
June 1949 - Chaplain in a 'hydro' camp
May 1924 - John G Paton, Missionary to the South Seas
Woman's Guild Supplement, 1934 - A Stormy Beginning
April 1969 - Babies from the laboratory
March 1894 - The Church and Science
March 1919 - The National Mission
March 1954 - The Story of Margaret
February 1914 - Ba' Day in a Border Village
January 1954 - The Floating Church of Loch Sunart
January 1934 - "This Charterisian Foundling"
January 1914 - A Prayer for the New Year
December 1958 - The Chosen Hour
December 1953 - The Housing Crisis
November 1938 - A Ministry Begins
November 1903 - An Indian Elder
December 1918 - The End of the War
November 1943 - The Church in Industry
October 1948 - The First World Assembly
November 1953 - At the German Kirchentag
October 1938 - Lighthouse Life
October 1963: Space - Conquest or Exploration?
October 1933: Some Questions of Vital Importance
October 1953: The Mobile Ministry
September 1879: Harvest Thoughts
September 1973: The elder as pastor
August 1988: The Conflict in South Africa
August 1963: Shortage in ministry recruitment
July 1913: The Empire Exhibition in Glasgow
September 1905: The story of the Church of Scotland's first missionary
July 1943: a UN pledge on food, and thoughts on a minister's workload
July 1913: The 1913 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
January 2008: Sir Alex Ferguson talks about the influence of the Boys' Brigade on his upbringing.
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