News from the Scottish Episcopal Church
May 2020
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 Welcome to Inspires Online - the monthly electronic newsletter of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Inspires Online highlights news and events from across the Church and also includes news from organisations related to the Church.
It is good to hear from our readers so please do get in touch with us either by replying to this email or by contacting Donald Walker, Director of Communications at dwalker@scotland.anglican.org, or Aidan Strange, Digital Communications Co-ordinator at aidans@scotland.anglican.org.
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Growth in Online Worship
 The buildings may have been closed but the church was very much open during Holy Week, with thousands tuning in to the various broadcasts of online worship made available through the Scottish Episcopal Church website.
During Holy Week, a range of broadcasts was available on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. We are pleased to report that these attracted 16,500 views across various platforms, with website traffic doubling year-on-year. This uplift applies to many areas of the website, including our online daily resources.
In addition to this, almost one-third of Scottish Episcopal churches have been offering their own form of online worship to their congregation and beyond since the coronavirus pandemic required the closure of places of worship until further notice.
It was encouraging to see that BBC Scotland News picked up on this growth of online worship, focusing on the success at St Paul’s and St George’s in Edinburgh. You can read their story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-52262025
Not every church is able to provide online worship, and nor is there an expectation that everyone should try. The provincial website offering, led by the College of Bishops, is designed to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to follow a service of worship at least once a week, on a Sunday.
However, it is heartening to find that almost 80 of the SEC’s 297 congregations are currently offering their own form of worship every week. A list of these churches, along with links to where their services can be found, is available here. The list is subject to variation, and any congregations who require to be added or removed, or who need to have their details updated, should contact office@scotland.anglican.org
Provincial worship continues on Sunday 10 May at 11am. The Rt Rev John Armes, Bishop of Edinburgh, will celebrate the Eucharist from his home in Edinburgh, joined digitally by others in the Diocese of Edinburgh.
On Thursday 14 May, a new weekly provincial broadcast service will be launched. The Rev Roxanne Campbell, Assistant Curate at St Ninian's Church, Dundee, will lead a Service of the Word from her home in Dundee, joined by people from across the Province. This service will be broadcast at 6.30pm.
In addition to this schedule, the Rt Rev John Armes, Bishop of Edinburgh will celebrate the Eucharist for Ascension Day on the morning of Thursday 21 May. Further details on this service and all other provincial broadcast worship are regularly updated at the SEC website and on social media.
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Watch out for copyright issues
Those churches wishing to include music, hymns or songs as part of their online worship should make themselves aware of copyright restrictions.
Churches should not assume that easy public availability (e.g. online), or the existence or creation of a local recording of a piece of music, means that there is no copyright issue.
It should also be kept in mind that a hymn could have two forms of copyright – one for the music, and one for the lyrics. One or more streaming licences may also be required. Again, avoid assuming that holding one licence will cover the use of all pieces of music. Check if the licence includes the material you wish to use.
Ascertaining copyright can be a complicated and time-consuming process, as can be the securing of permissions to use a particular piece. Often the licensor will require a fee to be paid to cover the composer/artist’s income. CLAS (Churches’ Legislation Advisory Service) has produced helpful guidance on copyright and the live streaming of services, which can be accessed here on pages 5 and 6.
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Scottish Episcopal Church on TV & radio
The Scottish Episcopal Church led worship on BBC One Scotland’s weekly broadcast ‘Reflection at the Quay’ last month.
 Rev Maggie McTernan of St Margaret’s, Newlands, featured alongside Catriona Paton, detective superintendent, Police Scotland. The programme went out on Sunday 19 April.
This weekly service every Sunday morning was introduced by BBC Scotland to help support and represent faith communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The programme featuring Rev McTernan is still available on the BBC iPlayer.
Elsewhere in the broadcast media, Bishop Mark, Bishop Ian and Bishop Anne all appeared on either BBC or independent radio over the Holy Week period, while Bishop David Chillingworth, the former Primus, led worship on BBC Radio Scotland programme New Every Sunday.
The Rev Canon Dave Richards, Rector of St Paul’s & George’s in Edinburgh, was a guest on Sunday Morning with Cathy Macdonald on BBC Radio Scotland on 3 May, to talk about church help network Your Neighbour. You can listen to the programme on the BBC iPlayer here.
On Gaelic language television station BBC ALBA, news programme An La broadcast an item on Gaelic worship, highlighting the Scottish Episcopal Church’s versions of the weekly Call To Prayer which are published on the SEC website, and on social media, in both English and Gaelic. The item is available here.
The SEC has also featured on local radio station Cuillin FM, where Rev Rosemary Bungard of St Columba’s in Portree addressed the grave situation at Home Farm care home in her ‘Thought For The Week’ on 4 May. A transcription is available on the St Columba’s Facebook page.
The previous week, Tony Clapham from the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles was the guest contributor for five days on the ‘Thought For the Day’ slot on Nevis Radio’s breakfast show. Tony, formerly of St Paul’s & George’s, talked about how to manage during lockdown – a particularly apposite theme considering his duties as a senior nurse in the NHS.
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UK Blessing video is huge internet hit
 An Edinburgh church features in a video which has become a massive hit online, in collaboration with 64 other UK churches and movements.
The UK Blessing, a song of hope and encouragement, has ‘gone viral’ and attracted almost one million viewers within 48 hours of being posted on the YouTube website. At the time of writing, the number of views had passed 1.5 million.
St Paul’s & St George’s in Edinburgh became involved when an invitation was extended to Mark Cameron, Director of Worship, from the project’s instigator Tim Hughes, who leads a Church of England congregation in Birmingham. Tim reached out to Salvation Army, RC, Vineyard, Methodist, independent, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, BAME, Orthodox, and Anglican churches.
“The intention was to simply offer a prayer of blessing over the UK at this difficult time,” says Rev Canon Dave Richards, Rector of Ps & Gs. “It was agreed that no one would take the credit for it but that it simply be offered on behalf of the church in the UK.
“It is not everyone’s taste of music or style - but the ancient prayer from the book of Numbers seems to have hit a chord. At a time when 1:4 people in the UK have apparently checked out an online service during the lockdown, and 1:3 having started to pray since the lockdown began, it seemed an appropriate response and offering.”
You can watch the Blessing at Youtube here.
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The Digital Era - Reflections by Rev Dr Michael Hull
Rev Dr Michael Hull, Director of the Studies at the Scottish Episcopal Institute, reminds us in the reflection below that the printed page can still “bridge our physical distances in a way different from the internet”.
 The Covid-19 pandemic challenges Christians like no other crisis in living memory in terms of liturgy, writes Dr Hull. How do we pray and worship together when we cannot gather in person?
Our digital age offers options like YouTube and Facebook, which the Scottish Episcopal Church is using for Sundays. Moreover, the SEC has been posting the Daily Office on its website for years. The Internet is an invaluable medium to connect us.
Still, there is an older medium, the printed page, particularly the Scottish Prayer Book, through which we have connected for almost 400 years – even longer, if we look back to its roots in the Sarum rites and as far back as the tenth century. The pandemic is an opportunity to design new forms of prayer and worship, but also to revisit the classics, including Morning and Evening Prayer as found in the Prayer Book with the subheading: ‘to be said and used daily throughout the year’.
It is the vision of the Prayer Book that we should implore the Lord God every morning to open our lips, that our mouths may shew forth his praise; and every evening, that he would bless and keep us that night and forevermore. Though it would normally have us together in our churches, the Prayer Book’s very form, a handbook, facilitates its use when outwith church and congregation. These days public prayer in our churches is not viable, and that is a loss. There are times, however, when it is good to pray privately, when spiritual participation in the mystical body of Christ is more than sufficient, and there is no need to be connected physically, virtually or otherwise, save by love which is the bond of perfection. Is it not Jesus himself who reminds us that there are moments when we should close our doors and pray to our Father, who sees and hears all, in secret (Matthew 6.6)?
The private prayer to which we are constrained by this pandemic may be aided by the arcane language of the Prayer Book, which is germane to our present-day life in lockdown. Just a few months ago, it would have been incomprehensible that we would experience a threat to our health and wellbeing that makes the sixteenth century seem more safe and secure than our own. With the Prayer Book in hand, we are connected to our forebears in faith as we pray to and worship God on behalf of ourselves and the world.
The introductions to Morning and Evening Prayer remind us that ‘there is no health in us’, that we are ‘miserable’. Similarly, we ask – elsewhere in the Prayer Book, rendering a fourteenth-century chant – ‘in the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee O Lord?’ Our efforts in the Covid-19 crisis to alleviate suffering, to trust science to find a vaccine, and to believe in divine providence are fixed in our faith that it is Jesus who brings salvation. As the third collect of Evening Prayer has it: ‘Lighten our darkness we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ’.
The Prayer Book bridges our physical distances in a way different from the Internet; it does so in ways no less palpable. Prayer Books are part of the fabric of our Anglican Communion. Our Scottish version has grown organically with our church through good times and bad, in the sicknesses and the health we have faced, all the while, for centuries, starting our days with Morning and Evening Prayer, daily and throughout the year.
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Clergy from three continents at ‘virtual’ conference
 The Diocese of Brechin is taking part in an intercontinental virtual conference this week, along with its long-standing partners in Iowa (Episcopal Church in the USA) and Swaziland (Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
The dioceses have an established three-way companionship relationship. Clergy and church members have exchanged between the countries, and projects have been supported for many years, especially in Swaziland/Eswatini.
The Diocese of Iowa hosts this week’s clergy conference on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May, at which Bishop Ellinah Wamukoya from Swaziland is the keynote speaker. She was due to fly to the US to lead this work, until international travel was suspended because of the Coronavirus pandemic. There are different restrictions on movement and gathering in each of the three dioceses, but the three Bishops (Alan Scarfe, Iowa; Andrew Swift, Brechin and Bishop Ellinah) have invited their clergy to gather for this conference using Zoom videoconferencing software.
The planned webinar and discussion times will engage the pressing issues at hand for creation and our responsible care for it as a Church and as global citizens. Serving clergy from Scotland, Eswatini and Iowa have all been invited to register and join in with a range or keynote sessions and breakout discussions. The time differences between the US Midwest, Scotland and south-eastern Africa have been factored in to allow participation at reasonable times of the day, local time.
Bishop Andrew Swift, said: “This is an exciting development in the link between our three dioceses. We are all in a time of anxiety and loss as our various countries deal with Covid-19, but it is a major boost to our life as Scottish Episcopal clergy to be able to connect and pray and study with our brothers and sisters from other Anglican provinces and other continents.
“Our thanks goes to Bishop Alan Scarfe and his team for enabling this shared opportunity for us all.”
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St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow hosts CLIMATETALK
COP 26 may have been postponed but another conference on climate change is set to go ahead in Glasgow this year.
The much-anticipated global climate conference – the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties – is to be rescheduled because it is not possible to host the event during the current coronavirus pandemic.
However, lockdown has not deterred St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow from hosting its own climate change conference online, which was originally devised to co-ordinate with COP 26.
The relationship between mental health and climate change is the first topic in a series of four talks sponsored by St Mary’s. The aim is to convene inspiring speakers to equip people with information and ideas.
The first CLIMATETALK event was to take place at the cathedral at the end of April, but organisers delayed the talk to arrange online hosting, in accordance with restrictions currently in place on public gatherings.
Harriet Ingle, PhD, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate Psychology at the Centre for Climate Justice, delivers the first lecture as a podcast set for release on Wednesday 20 May. All talks, which continue to take place throughout the year either as podcasts or in-person events if later possible, are free and open to the public.
CLIMATETALK features an array of presenters from a wide range of expertise. As well as Harriet Ingle, speakers include Patrick Grady MP; Rebecca Campbell, Specialty Registrar in Public Health for the Scottish Managed Sustainable Health Network; and Jaime Wright, PhD. Topics range from mental health to climate fiction (a subgenre of science fiction that engages climate change).
The City of Glasgow is still scheduled to host the COP26, which will bring together over 30,000 delegates from around the world to agree on coordinated action to tackle climate change. When it happens, the climate conference will be the biggest international summit the UK has ever hosted. As a way of preparing for the conference, CLIMATETALK aims to sustain the important discussion on the world’s climate emergency and the responses to it.
For more information on these events, visit climatetalk.thecathedral.org.uk
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Call to Joint Prayer on Sunday
Every Sunday, Christians from across the country are asked to join in prayer at 7pm in response the Corona Virus Pandemic.
The weekly prayers are available in English and Gaelic. You can check the SEC website on Friday every week for full prayer details.
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Letter of thanks
I was minded to make a personal call to the Lead Chaplain at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow, Canon Iain Macritchie, writes Bishop Mark Strange, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Canon Iain is one of the clergy in my diocese of Moray, Ross & Caithness, and is also a good friend. I wanted to thank him and his colleagues for all the work they were doing in very difficult circumstances. I spoke to him about the churches’ response to the situation and received his letter of thanks to us, which appears below.
Please hear what is being asked of us. As Bishop Kevin said in his sermon on Sunday 26 April: “We have closed our churches out of love, not out of fear.” We need to do as we are asked, stay isolated and do our best to beat this virus.
Dear Bishop Mark
I write to express the gratitude of the Scottish Government for the exemplary lead taken by the Scottish Episcopal Church in these challenging times.
The SEC has consistently responded to the advice being given with appropriate and responsible actions and, in doing this, has set a good example for other faith and belief groups to follow.
Specifically, the SEC was one of the first faith communities to instruct the suspension of gathering together for acts of worship. We realise that this has come at no small cost to theological principles but we also see the rich discoveries of other ways of worshiping together and, in particular, we see the valuing of human life and the understanding that care previously expressed by gathering and contact must now be expressed by social distancing.
It is hard to over-estimate the ongoing risk of contagion that, for example, a simple visit to the supermarket represents. The Scottish Government advice is that we limit such contacts to the absolute minimum and the strictly necessary. In doing so, quite simply, we save lives.
With this in mind, can I encourage you, please, to use whatever influence you have as Primus, to thank in particular the clergy of the SEC at this time, for the hard sacrifices that are being made in continuing to have their church buildings closed and in desisting from gathering for worship.
Now is absolutely not the time to be easing these restrictions.
By keeping on doing what we are doing, we continue to value and preserve life and we continue to set the best of examples to our fellow faith communities in Scotland.
With warm good wishes
Beannachdan
Rev Canon Dr Iain Macritchie
Canon for Spiritual Care and Healthcare Chaplains
Scottish Government Advisor on Spiritual Care
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Minute of Silence
 The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church called for thanks and for prayer as the UK participated in a minute’s silence to remember key workers who have lost their lives to coronavirus.
At least 150 NHS staff and care workers have died since 25 March, as have many transport workers, and the country stopped to remember them at 11am on Tuesday 28 April.
“Let our moment of silence give us the space to thank those who have given their own lives for others and to pray for those still doing this vital work,” said the Primus, Bishop Mark Strange, on behalf of the College of Bishops.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson had backed the plan, following a campaign by the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Nursing, and Unison, the union.
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, had also encouraged everyone “at home” to join the silence.
The First Minister said the tribute was for “particularly, but not exclusively” for health and care workers.
She said: “The silence will provide an opportunity to pay tribute to those who have died as a result of their work to serve, care for and save others and it will be a further reminder that of all the duties Government bares during a situation like this, the most vital is our obligation to keep care and health workers safe.”
The minute’s silence was timed to coincide with International Workers’ Memorial Day.
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Ways to Deal with Death in Deadly Times
 Reflecting the issues surrounding death and bereavement in the time of the Covid -19 Pandemic the Rt Revd Anne Dyer wrote in her regular column in The Press and Journal about how to cope with loss.
“Social distancing means families and friends in different locations cannot meet together, so the wake cannot take place.
There is less opportunity for the bereaved to be able to see that as life continues, it is these friends present who will be supportive and there is no opportunity to tell the stories that when shared help to make sense of the experience of loss.
The enormity of all this cannot be overstated. Think of one family going through this and then multiply it by thousands. That is where we are right now.”
You can read the full column at the Press & Journal website here.
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How we are helping those most in need
 We know that many people from the Scottish Episcopal Church are key workers, or are volunteering to support vital networks during the coronavirus pandemic. Some will have signed up to the Scottish Government’s national volunteering campaign, Scotland Cares, launched this week. See here for more information.
Others will have been involved already. SEC congregations have long been active in initiatives which support the most vulnerable in society, as our picture here shows.
Not everyone is in a position to help at this time for very good reasons, and absolutely no-one should feel that they are not ‘doing their bit’. Safety is paramount.
But if you are involved in any activity which helps to protect or assist the unwell, the isolated and the vulnerable in our communities who are in need at this time of crisis, we would like to hear from you.
Please share these uplifting experiences here if you can, either by posting stories and photos on the SEC’s facebook page or by emailing to office@scotland.anglican.org
Photos of workers and helpers in action are welcome; please just ensure we respect the privacy of the vulnerable and those who would not want to appear on social media.
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SEI Newsletter: May 2020
 This nine-page edition explores how the Institute has embraced digital communication during the coronavirus crisis. The newsletter is available to download here.
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Notices
Rev Elizabeth Baker was installed as Canon at St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth on 7 March 2020
Rev Katharine Barrable was appointed as Priest-in-Charge at St Mary's, Newport on Tay and St Margaret of Scotland, Tayport on 24 March 2020
Rev Dr Alasdair Coles was installed as Canon at St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth on 7 March, 2020
Rev Lesley-Ann Craddock was appointed as Priest-in-Charge at St Mary, Birnam & Dunkeld 1 April 2020
Rev Bonnie Evans Hills was appointed as Priest in Charge at St Margaret of Scotland, Leven on 1 May 2020.
Rev Canon Richard Grosse was installed as Canon Emeritus at St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth on 26 April, 2020
Rev Canon Dr Robert Patterson Harley retired as Rector at St Mary, Kirriemuir on 6 March 2020
Rev Hilary Naish died on 9 April 2020 aged 76. She served as Honorary Assistant Curate at St Salvador, Edinburgh 2005-08 and at Church of the Good Shepherd, Murrayfield 2005-09. She held a Warrant in the Diocese of Edinburgh 2009-20. She was a Non-Stipendiary Minister at Church of the Good Shepherd Murrayfield, 2017-20.
Rev Dr Geoffrey Edward Windsor Scobie died on 8 April 2020 aged 81. He served as Curate at Summerfield, Birmingham 1965-66 and then as Curate at St Anne, Moseley 1966-67. He received a Licence in the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway 1967. He became Honorary Curate at St Silas, Glasgow 1970-83 then Priest-in-Charge 1983 and Honorary Rector 1984. He was then Team Rector 1985-86; Team Chaplain 1987-88 and Honorary Assistant Chaplain 1988-99. He went on to serve as Associate Priest at St James the Less, Bishopbriggs 1999-2008. He was Interregnum Priest at The Good Shepherd, Hillington 1997-98. He served as Interregnum Priest at St Cyprians, Lenzie 2006, then as Priest-in-Charge 2006-09. He Retired in 2014.
Rev Canon Robin Underhill died on 28 April 2020 aged 88. He served as an Assistant Priest at All Saints', Beverly Hills, California 1982-2000 then he became Priest-in-Charge, Iglesia de San Nicolas, San Pedro, California 1995-98. He went on to be an Interregnum Priest at Iglesia de San Simon, San Fernando, California 1999-2000. He served as Priest-in-Charge at St John the Evangelist, Stranraer & St Ninian's, Portpatrick 2001-04. He was the Mission to Seafarers: Port Chaplain for Los Angeles 1992-2000 then Stranraer 2001-04 and the Secretary for Scotland 2004-10. He retired in 2010. He was installed as Honorary Canon at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen 2010
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A Report from the Standing Committee
The Provincial Standing Committee has had two meetings by Zoom during the current period of lockdown, one an emergency meeting in early April shortly after lockdown commenced, and the other a scheduled meeting later in the month.
Of immediate concern to the Committee have been the consequences of lockdown for the Scottish Episcopal Church as a whole. It has brought many changes to all levels of the Church and the Committee has been encouraged to learn of many and innovative ways in which the province, clergy and congregations have been rising to new challenges. Communications have become even more vital during this period of enforced separation. Many churches have been offering online worship but many are also reliant on the provincial weekly worship which has been very well received.
The Committee has kept abreast of financial challenges being faced across the Church and it received a report from the provincial Treasurer following discussions with Diocesan Treasurers and feedback on local congregational finances. Whilst it is undoubtedly a challenging time for some, most appear to be weathering the present storm with appropriate resilience, and the Committee is of the view that no urgent steps need to be taken. However, it is keeping the situation under review and has already determined that there will be no overall increase in the level of provincial quota for 2021.
Members of the Committee were equally aware that many people and organisations are involved in frontline work in local communities at the present time. The Committee has invited the Church in Society Committee to bring forward proposals so that, in addition to its regular grant awarding programme, the province can provide some financial support to external organisations operating to bring local relief.
The Committee approved its annual report and the annual accounts for the General Synod for the year ended 31 December 2019. The provincial finances show a deficit of approximately £75,000 on the General Fund for 2019. That is in fact a smaller deficit than was budgeted and in that sense is welcome, particularly in current circumstances. In due course, the full accounts will, as usual, be posted to the provincial website and, once available, General Synod members will be informed by email.
The Committee also gave consideration to a future meeting of General Synod, given that the meeting scheduled to have taken place in June this year has been postponed. At the present time, it is still too early to say when any such postponed meeting might take place, nor what form it might take, particularly if social distancing measures remain in place. It will revisit that issue when it meets next, in June. In the meantime, Standing Committee extended a number of convenerships until the next Synod meeting and which would otherwise have come up for renewal in June. It expressed its particular thanks to Canon Jane Ross who resigned as Mission Board convener, and as member of Standing Committee, earlier this year.
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A Report from the Administration Board
The Provincial Administration Board had its first meeting of the year in March – one of the last meetings to be held in the General Synod office prior to the current lockdown.
The Board was pleased to hear positive feedback from two of its members regarding the first meeting of the newly established Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG). The Group which was established by Standing Committee following last year’s General Synod to consider a range of ethical investment issues, including fossil fuel divestment, and how they relate to the SEC Unit Trust Pool met for the first time in February. Given the complexity of the issues involved and the range of views represented within the Group it was encouraging to hear that its members had been able to hear each other’s views in an open, respectful and constructive manner and had demonstrated a willingness to work towards providing advice on a workable ethical investment policy. The Group will provide an interim report to General Synod later in the year.
The Personnel Committee Convener, Jan Whiteside, updated the Board on the Committee’s work – much of which continues to be shaped by the results of the Clergy Wellbeing Survey undertaken in early 2019 and the numerous conversations that she has subsequently had with clergy. The Board is grateful to her for the time that she has been able to devote to this task and is encouraged by way in which the Committee has been able to address the issues raised by the Survey. It heard of the Committee’s discussions with St Luke’s charity regarding the possibility of it offering workshops for clergy in relation to matters such as stress, self-care and healthy working relationships. The Committee is also continuing to work towards the production of a clergy expenses policy.
The Board was advised that the recently formed Stipend Review Group was to planning to circulate a short survey to stipendiary clergy to help inform its thinking on the issue of stipend policy. The Group is due to submit its report and recommendations for consideration by the Board at its September meeting.
Like a number of other provincial bodies the Board was offered the opportunity to comment on the draft Safeguarding Policy prepared by the Safeguarding Audit Implementation Group. It hopes that its feedback on the policy will assist the Group in this important area of work.
A number of appointments and reappointments were made by the Board to its pendant committees. There are however a number of vacancies remaining on the Buildings Committee, Investment Committee and Retirement Housing Committee – if you would like any further information regarding these vacancies please email Malcolm Bett in the General Synod Office (treasurer@scotland.anglican.org).
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Scottish Episcopal Church Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
 In April 2021 the Most Rev Mark Strange, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church will lead a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
The pilgrimage, organised by the Rev Cedric Blakey as part of the 2021 Provincial Year of Pilgrimage, will take place from 10-21 April 2021 and is now over halfway booked.
For more information, see the brochure at our website.
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