An inside verdict

Abstract

As Acting Principal Clerk of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Dr Marjory MacLean provides a response from within the Kirk to Harry Reid's book Outside Verdict: An Old Kirk in a New Scotland. Her contribution focusses on the aspects of Reid's book concerned with the administration of the church. This takes in leadership, distinctiveness, manses and overseas charges, decision-making, the General Assembly and the central administration in Edinburgh.