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Norman Shanks (born 15 July 1942) is an ordained
Church of Scotland
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minister, who prior to his retirement in June 2007 was minister of
Govan Old Parish Church
Govan Old Parish Church is the name of the original parish church serving Govan in Glasgow from the 5th or 6th century AD until 2007. In that year, the Church of Scotland united the two Govan congregations with Linthouse and established the paris ...
,
Glasgow
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. He is married to Ruth, and has a daughter and two sons, and seven grandchildren.
He was Convener of the Church of Scotland's
Committee on Church and Nation from 1988 to 1992, a member of the
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Broadcasting Council for Scotland from 1988 to 1993 and the UK Board of
Christian Aid
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from 2000 to 2004. Educated at Stirling High School and the Universities of St Andrews (MA, 1964) and Edinburgh (BD, 1982), before entering the ministry he served as a senior civil servant from 1964 to 1979, including a term (1975–77) as Private Secretary to the
Secretary of State for Scotland.
He was
Chaplain to the
University of Edinburgh
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from 1985 to 1988, Lecturer in Practical Theology at the
University of Glasgow
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from 1988 to 1995 and Leader of the
Iona Community
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from 1995 to 2002 and served as
Moderator of the
Presbytery of Glasgow
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from June 2002 to June 2003. From 1998 to 2006 he was a member of the Central Committee of the
World Council of Churches
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and served as moderator of the planning committee for the 9th Assembly of the WCC, held in
Porto Alegre
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,
Brazil
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in February 2006. From August 2010 to July 2016 he was a non-executive member of the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board.
He received an honorary
DD from the University of Glasgow in June 2005 and was one of three candidates for nomination to be
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 2007. In 1999 he was Drummond Lecturer at
Stirling University and from September to December 2007 was a visiting scholar at
Columbia Theological Seminary
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History
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,
Decatur,
Georgia
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, USA. A revised edition of his book ''Iona – God's energy: the vision and spirituality of the Iona Community'', originally published by
Hodder and Stoughton
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History
Early history
The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged 14, with Messrs Jackson and Walford, the official publishe ...
in 1999, was published in 2009 by Wild Goose Publications.
References
External links
Govan Old Parish Church
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20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland
21st-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Leaders of the Iona Community
Govan
Living people
1942 births