Moderator to be sworn in

THE NEW moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will be sworn into office today as the Kirk's annual gathering gets under way.

Rev David Lunan, 63, was expected to take over from the current incumbent, Rev Sheilagh Kesting, at a ceremony in Edinburgh.

Mr Lunan, who once held the post of clerk to the presbytery of Glasgow, has pledged to make "prayer and money" the themes for his year in the honorary role.