Ian Gall

Ian Gall is pastor at Riverside Church, Ayr.

God’s kind of church

29 April 2019From a national perspective, secularisation is rapidly sweeping across society and more and more people identify with non-religious values and institutions. Add to this, the church in Scotland, and the rest of the UK for that matter, tends to be defined by what it prohibits rather than the love it carries for all creation. And the stories in the media don’t help; they often have an anti-church narrative which filters through to people’s psyche. Is it any wonder, then, that if we were to ask a…

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