Free Church splits in Scotland.(Brief Article)

The Christian Century | February 23, 2000 | Copyright

The tiny Free Church of Scotland, the conservative evangelical group sometimes called "the wee frees" that remained after the majority of the Free Church entered into a series of unions that led to the present Church of Scotland in 1929, has finally split over the decades-old case of Donald Macleod. Fifteen of the 115 ministers of the Free Kirk (church) have left the denomination, along with a number of elders and members.

Macleod, now principal of the Free Church college in Edinburgh, was the editor of the church's monthly magazine. He was regarded by some as ...

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