How do you go about changing from Church of Scotland to Church of England?

[mymatekate]

Hope someone can help. Am a member of a church in Scotland, and have been since I was a child. I am not a regular churchgoer - esp as now have moved down south so can't go at all now. I would like to join my local church, mainly as would like to have my ds christened but also would like to go occasionally, especially at Easter and Christmas, as would like ds to know the true reasons behind these. I went on the CofE website and located the nearest church and sent an email asking this very question, but have had no reply. I was just wondering if anyone knows how to go about this and if it is a long drawn out process? TIA

Really tired you said: catholic with a little "c" is all christians whatever sect they belong to

I think (I could be wrong!) that catholic with a small c generally means universal or broad.

eg Tom has catholic tastes in music

With a capital C it refers to Catholics and the Catholic church, with a small c it doesnt have a religious meaning as such

I could be wrong though!

Yurtgirl -I think you are right, if memory serves me correctly the greek (I think?) origin of "catholic" is "universal"

if you are used to CofS you will prob find most CofE quite formal in comparison - some are very "high church" - swinging incense etc., some less so.
CofS is closer to the Methodist church in England as a general "feel" so you might want to see if you have a local methodist church for dropping into - x-post, just realised that reallytired has said this.

There is a huge variety of worship style in the CofE, sausage.

My CofE church is much less formal than the CofS church I grew up in.

The main difference between CofE and CofS is the more active participation in the liturgy in England.

too right scienceteacher - in scotland its all about the sermon (my dad was a CofS minister) .

there is a wide variety in the CofS as well - form my childhood church with 10 min sermons and LOADS of congragational participation, to my (for a short time) student church where all the congregation did was listen to a 40 minute sermon.

Have since been a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church (very Anglican, ime, and in the end I didn't like it much, though interestingly dh, who was brought up a Northern Ireland Presbyterian, loved it)

We are now members of a Baptist church and have joined (ie been baptised!) and are really enjoying it.

Denominational tart? Me?

Any church shoudl be prepared, with certain caveats (eg the baptist need for adult baptism before membership) to take on anyone from another Christian tradition. CofS to CofE might be theologically awkward but should be administrativelty simple.

Mary - VOLF! One of my faves! Have you read much Moltmann?

can I just apologise for my sweeping generalisations BTW. I was talking in extremely large brushstrokes!

Volf is one of my faves too .