Bøger af Nansie Blackie

An answer to a premature obituary of the Churches in Scotland Perspectives on the issues that we all face through the eyes of great movers and shakers of past and present. Through a series of short, personal pieces by some of today's most valued commentators, we learn about the men and women who were the great movers and shakers of the twentieth century. We admire the profusion of gifts, clarity of vision, depth of commitment and springs of endless inspiration that characterised them. The book contains the following pieces by the following authors: J.H. Oldham by Andrew Morton John and Donald Baillie by George Newlands Archie Craig by Ian Mackenzie George Fielden MacLeod by Ross Flockhart Robert Mackie by Nansie Blackie Isobel Forrester by Julie R. Baxter Lesslie Newbigin by Duncan Forrester Ronnie Gregor Smith by Davis McCaughey and Harry Wardlaw Maidie Hart by Anne Hepburn Margaret and Ian Fraser by Catherine Hepburn James Campbell Blackie by Bill Shaw Mary Levison by Robin Barbour Geoff Shaw by John Harvey

Robert Mackie concluded his work as Director of Inter-Church Aid and Associate General Secretary of the World Council of Churches in 1955. General Secretary of the British SCM in the 1930s and of the WSCF in the 1940s, this is the biography of one of this century's foremost "fathers of ecumenism".