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Nicola Laver

Date posted: 22 Feb 2025

Liam Goligher has pleaded guilty to several charges including lying and clergy abuse in proceedings brought by the Philadelphia Presbytery in the US. He resigned as senior minister at Tenth Presbyterian Church in December 2023 after a public citation for sexual activity in a public park in 2014.

In May 2024 the Presbytery found Dr Goligher ‘contumacious’ (i.e. refusing to comply fully with the Presbytery trial and hindering the process). He was suspended from the Lord’s Supper and from eldership.

The motto of Glasgow is ‘Let Glasgow flourish’. It is the abbreviated version of the prayer inscribed on the bell of the Tron Kirk which is ‘Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of the word and the praising of His name’.

The heart of the prayer is the name of Jesus, and we flourish as we sing His praises and proclaim, or hear proclaimed, His word out of the Bible. This seems so ordinary and lacking excitement that our society has substituted for it trivial entertainment.

Around 150 members of the Crieff Fellowship gathered at Crieff Hydro over three days in January to benefit from the ministries of Dr Liam Goligher and Neil Powell.

Liam Goligher gave four powerful and profoundly insightful addresses from the book of Psalms (with, against the backdrop of Psalm 8, a detour in the second address into Proverbs 8) which stretched the minds and warmed the hearts of those privileged to be present, enabling us to ‘fix our eyes on Jesus’.

2015 sees the 140th anniversary of the Keswick Convention and the possibility of an addition to the current site.

The possibility of securing the land adjacent to the Rawnsley site in Keswick, through purchasing the former Derwent Pencil Factory site, has arisen. In looking at how best to manage a growing event and being keen to integrate many things at one main site, this new step forward will secure the future for a growing summer convention, as well as allowing for an extension of activities at other times of the year.