General Assembly 2025

Tuesday May 13

Welcome to Life and Work's coverage of the 2025 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which opens on Saturday May 17.

This year's General Assembly is again a hybrid event with a mixture of Commissioners in the Assembly Hall in Edinburgh, and others watching, speaking and voting remotely.

The Assembly opens at 10am on Saturday and continues until Thursday (May 22) with sessions each day from 9.15am and 2pm.

You can follow proceedings live from the Church of Scotland's General Assembly site, where you will also find Assembly publications and speeches.

Life and Work will be providing daily reports of the debates, and there will be full coverage in July's magazine.

Thursday May 22

General Assembly week 'challenging and inspiring'.

Wednesday May 21

Praise for Military Chaplains / Dismay about Prison Visitor Service / Manse debate

Tuesday May 20

Life and Work to close

Church to Challenge 'Lies and Misinformation'

Monday May 19

Assisted dying opposition reaffirmed

Saturday May 17

General Assembly to be shorter from next year; Book of Confessions agreed.

Friendships Between Churches Welcomed

Further reading:

Summaries of the reports to this year's Assembly

Interview with the Moderator-Designate, the Rev Rosie Frew

Order of Business

Beginner's Guide to the General Assembly

Summaries of previous years:

General Assembly 2024

General Assembly 2023

General Assembly 2022

General Assembly 2021: 'Not an Easy Ask'

General Assembly October 2020: A Virtual Assembly

Commission of Assembly Nov 2019: structural reforms 

General Assembly 2019, including the Radical Action Plan