A church has created legal history by winning a court order to carry out a mass exhumation of cremated remains from a memorial garden, The Scotsman reports. The Scottish Episcopal Church has been granted permission to excavate the land at Glasgow’s former Holy Cross Church and replant it at another site. The Knightswood church shut…
Archives for April 2019
Easter 2: A new dawn may be coming
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 April 2019.
Easter: Now is the time
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 April 2019.
Diocesan Lent Appeal in aid of Malawi hospital
This year’s Diocesan Lent Appeal will strike a chord with the All Saints congregation, which for many years supported St Peter’s Hospital on Likoma Island, Lake Malawi.
Dean is appointed new Provincial Director of Ordinands
Very Rev Ian Barcroft has been appointed as the Scottish Episcopal Church’s new full-time Provincial Director of Ordinands with effect from 1 June 2019. Ian has served as rector of St Mary’s, Hamilton, since 1997, and as Dean of Glasgow and Galloway since 2010.
Lent 5: Beyond price and beyond recall
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 April 2019.
Commentary: A more balanced story of humanity
The diet of films offered to a boy growing up in the 1950s and 1960s included a large number of items concerning WW2, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. The allies were shown as heroic and the enemy – especially the Nazis – were shown as robotically evil. Of course their uniforms were smarter and their equipment…
