Worship in Scots
The Church's Scots Language in Worship Group produces a wide range of worship resources in Scots language, which include reflections, poems, prayers, songs and drama. They are suitable for private devotions, Scots Language Services and bi-lingual worship, and cover:
- The Kirk's Ear - Scots i the Kirk series for Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost and other times of the year
- Wurship Ouk bi Ouk - Metrical psalms, hymns, prayers and words for worship
- Scots Sacraments - Holy Baptism and The Lord's Supper
New Testament readings in Scots
The Scots Language Centre provides weekly readings from the New Testament in Scots translated by William Lorrimer and read by Tom Fleming. You can listen to the current reading at its website www.scotslanguage.com.
Some publications
As there is no Scots version of Scripture to compare with W. L. Lorimer's, his approach to spelling is allowed to influence the presentation of all the documents in these pages, for it is beleived that for those drawing material together from various sources it will be helpful to have a broadly consistent starting point. Below is a list, in chronological order of publication, of various books which may be found useful.
| Year | Publication | Author | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1877 | The Psalms: frae Hebrew intil Scottis | P. Hately Waddell | Edinburgh/Glasgow |
| 1879 | Isaiah: frae Hebrew intil Scottis | P. Hately Waddell | Edinburgh/Glasgow |
| 1897 | A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs (The Gude and Godlie Ballatis) |
Scottish Text Society | Edinburgh |
| c1900 | Sacred Scotch Solos | Alexander Halliday | Glasgow |
| 1901 | The New Testament in Braid Scots | William Wye Smith | Paisley |
| 1910 | Sermons in Braid Scots |
David Gibb Mitchell |
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| 1913 | Of the Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis |
Henry P. Cameron | Paisley |
| 1915 | Wylins Fae My Wallet | George Abel | Paisley |
| 1917 | The Kirk i' the Clachan | David Gibb Mitchell |
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| 1917 | The Wyse-Sayin's o' Solomon: The Proverbs rendered in Scots |
T. Whyte Paterson | Paisley |
| 1921 | Genesis in Scots | Henry P. Cameron | Paisley |
| 1928 | Psalms in Braid Scots | T. T. Alexander | Leith |
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1932 |
Poems - Scots and English |
W. D. Cocker | Glasgow |
| c1950 | Atween the Gloamin and the Mirk | Ivo Macnaughton Clark | Brechin |
| 1959 | George Buchannan's Jephtha and the Baptist translatit frae Latin in Scots | Robert Garioch Sutherland | Edinburgh |
| 1979 | The Buik o Ruth and Ither Wark in Lallans | Alex. S. Borrowman | Edinburgh |
| 1983 | The New Testament in Scots | William Laughton Lorimer | Edinburgh |
| 1985 | A Scots Gospel | Jamie Stuart | Edinburgh |
| 1989 | A History of the Scots Bible (with selected texts) | Graham Tulloch | Aberdeen |
| 1989 | By the Shores o' Galilee | Robert Stephen | Peterhead |
| 1991 | In the Beginning | Robert Stephen | Peterhead |
| 1997 | A Glasgow Bible | Jamie Stuart | Edinburgh |
| 2001 |
Eight Early Scottish Carols | Kenneth Elliot | Glasgow |
| 2010 | The Bible in Plain Scots: 1 Genesis | G. Falconer & R. G. Arthur | Cambridge Ontario |
| 2010 | The Bible in Plain Scots: 2 Exodus | G. Falconer & R. G. Arthur | Cambridge Ontario |