Christians For Independence

Welcome to the website of Christians For Independence, the group for Christians who support Scottish Independence.

Members

New members are always welcome. If you would like to join CFI, please fill in our contact form, or email us at christiansforindependence@gmail.com.

Our latest news:

AGM 2026

Our AGM was held by Zoom on 17th June. Reports were presented on our activities over the last year. Our members have taken part in marches, rallies and conferences, we have attended meetings of the umbella Yes groups in which we are involved, and our online presence has been very effective, with high numbers of people viewing and reacting to our social media posts, on Facebook in particular.
Our new PowerPoint presentation was shown, and plans were made for its wider distribution, and also for our further activities in the coming year.
Following the election of office-bearers and of the committee, Dave Thompson is Convener, with Stephen Shilton as Vice-Convener and Robbie Mochrie as Treasurer. Committee members are Alison Campbell, Rosemary Ramsay and Stuart Stevenson.
Rev Edward Andrews stood down as a committee member and was thanked for his long service to CFI.

 

CFI at Logos conference

Christians for Independence attended the Logos Scotland conference in Edinburgh on 24th April as a fringe group.
Logos is an organisation concerned with supporting Christians working in the public sphere.
We were glad of the opportunity to explain why we believe that independence for Scotland is necessary in order to build a society based on Christian values.
And we were also glad of the chance to show our new PowerPoint presentation, A Christian Conversation about Scotland’s Future, which invites Christians to consider various reasons why independence is compatible with Christian belief, and why independence will actually enable Christian teachings to be put into practice in Scotland. The presentation was delivered by CFI committee member Rev Stuart Stevenson (below), one of the main authors of the presentation, and it was well received, giving some of the conference attendees food for thought.

Several of our members also attended to man our stall, from which we distributed booklets and leaflets, and we enjoyed the opportunity to engage with several interested people.
We can offer the presentation to any interested church or other Christian group, so if you would like to arrange for a viewing please contact us (contact form on this website) or email us at christiansforindependence@gmail.com.

 

Discussion on Europe

CFI Chair Dave Thompson took part in the conference, held on 14th February in Glasgow by two major independence organisations, YesUnited and Independence Forum Scotland, to discuss important aspects of Scotland’s future.
Dave was one of the facilitators for the discussion on Europe, which examined the options available to an independent Scotland: rejoining the EU;  or joining EFTA and the EEA, either as ends in themselves or as a stepping-stone to full EU membership.  While there was strong support for joining the EU, most participants agreed that, rather than linking independence to EU membership, it would be better to put the question of our future relationship with Europe to voters after Scotland becomes independent.

 

See the page Past Events for everything before the current year.