PLAQUE TO EQUALITY AND ECUMENISM PIONEER

A memorial plaque has been dedicated to Maidie Hart at Dirleton Church in East Lothian.

Maidie, who died in 1997, played a major role in ecumenical affairs and the promotion of women’s equality in church and society in the second half of the 20th century. She was the founder and chair of the Scottish Convention of Women, a founder member of the Ecumenical Forum of European Christian Women, and co-chaired a Community of Women and Men Group in the Church of Scotland.

The plaque was part of a larger memorial bench in her memory in the grounds of Scottish Churches House in Dunblane. When that closed, the bench was brought to Dirleton, where Maidie was a Church elder. Sadly most of the bench was rotted beyond repair, but the memorial inscription has been restored and now forms a plaque on the inside wall of the church.

This article appears in the April 2018 Issue of Life and Work

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