Some of you may listen to a Radio 4 programme called Last Word. In effect it offers appreciations and assessments of interesting people who have died in the week or so before the programme is broadcast. As I write, the cast includes Stephen Hawking and Ken Dodd. But it occurs to me that it’s an…
Archives for March 2018
Easter message from All Saints
At Easter we are celebrating life in many aspects, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. Supremely, it is the life that Jesus assumed at His conception and which was made visible at His birth; but it is also the life that He lived, both the hidden years before His baptism in the Jordan, and the few years…
New Poems by Catriona Montgomery
The Gaelic Books Council has published a new collection of poems by a member of All Saints, the distinguished poet Catriona Montgomery McLaughlin (Catrìona NicGumaraid NicLachlainn).
Lent 5: Jesus learned obedience through suffering
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 March 2018.
Lent 4: Facing the future
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 March 2018.
Lent 3: Wisdom not of this world
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 March 2018.
Commentary: Judge not that ye be not judged
‘Absolutely outrageous!’ – ‘Totally unacceptable!’ – ‘Utterly scandalous!’ The cries of disapproval resonate throughout the public space, whether in print, broadcast or on the net, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. And they do indeed protest very vigorously against a crime, an offence against decency or women, or a spectacularly poor explanation of some exercise in political…
