This is My Story, This is My Song [4th ed] by Alasdair Gordon - HTML preview

{1} Autumn Leaves Volume 2: 25-46. Also Whose Faith Follow pages 10-19

{2} Autumn Leaves Volume 2: 12-24

{3} Psalm 24:1

{4} Ordination of women to ministry was approved in 1968. The eldership had already been opened to women in 1966.

{5} Whose Faith Follows pages 26-30

{6} Autumn Leaves Volume 3: 4-17

{7} A Sad Departure, David J Randall (2015)

{8} Matthew 6: 24; Luke 16: 13

{9} The Reluctant Minister, David W Torrance (2015)

{10} Autumn Leaves Volume 1: 24-47

{11} Exodus 15: 27

{12} In practice, many people who quote this book have never read it.

{13} Catch the Fire, Guy Chevreau (1994)

{14} John 8: 7

{15} According to recent statistics, 46% of Scots now place themselves in this category.

{16} Gavin Reid, 1969

{17} Romans 12: 2

{18} Issue 19; See Autumn Leaves Volume 3: 18-22

{19} Paul on Homosexuality, Michael Wood (2011)

{20} Matthew 7: 3-5 and Luke 6: 41-42

{21} Full and accurate details of which congregations have “gone out” can be found in David Randall’s book A Sad Departure, supra cit.

{22} Not be confused with another body called “Forward Together”.

{23} The Oddessy, Homer

{24} The Church in Victorian Scotland 1 and 2, A L Drummond and J Bulloch (1975 and 1978)

{25} Bannatyne v.Overtoun [1904] AC 515

{26} The Ten Years’ Conflict, Robert Buchanan (1854)

{27} Recent statistics suggest that people claiming a connection with the Church of Scotland has fallen to 24% of the population. And, of course, connection does not necessarily mean commitment.

{28} Matthew 5: 27-28

{29} Matthew 23: 23

{30} A phrase attributed to an Australian Senator, Irina Dunn (b. 1948)

{31} Michael Baigent and others (1996)

{32} The Goddess in the Gospels Margaret Starbird (1998)

{33} The Magdalene Legacy Laurence Gardner (2005); Mary Magdalene Lynn Picknett (2003)

{34} 1906

{35} The Woman with the Alabaster Jar Margaret Starbird (1993)

{36} Matthew 18: 1-5

{37} See The Last Pope, Robert Howells (2013)

{38} Proverbs 29: 18

{39} John 14: 6

{40} Romans 11: 15

{41} The Hope of Israel, Alasdair Gordon and William Still (1977)

{42} A * indicates that this text has been republished in my Autumn Leaves series.

{43} Subsequent editions of the Law Basics books appear under joint names of Alex Gibb and myself