All Saints, Jordanhill

A world of venal rulers and corrupt officials, self-interested religious leaders and an occupying army seemingly at liberty to do what it liked, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. No authentic voice of faith for 400 years and believers a beleaguered minority, easy meat for any and all kinds of abuse. This was the Holy Land in…

“WE WON, YOU LOST, SO *?#@ OFF’. This sentiment is not unique to our politics but is very much in evidence today, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. But then much of our national life is fractured, with divisions between left and right, north and south, town and country, as well as between different nations in the…

The claims of justice reach ever further into our lives, and this is a multi-faced kind of justice, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. There is social justice, racial justice, economic justice, environmental justice, sexual justice and so on and so on. All are about establishing some kind of claim on the rest of society – and…

August 6 is memorable for two quite different reasons, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. In the church we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, when Jesus took Peter, James and John up the mountain and there met Moses and Elijah where they discussed Jesus’ coming crucifixion in Jerusalem. In this, Jesus’ robes where transformed into a…