One of the largest churches in Edinburgh has voted to split from the Scottish Episcopal Church amid tensions over its decision to become the first Anglican body in the UK to endorse gay marriage. St Thomas’ is the latest evangelical parish to quit the official Anglican church in Scotland and back a rival splinter movement…
Trinity 9: No offering is too small
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 29 July 2018.
Trinity 8: The extravagance of God
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 July 2018.
Trinity 7: A High Calling
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 July 2018.
Trinity 4: In times of need
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 24 June 2018.
Trinity 2: Who is unforgivable?
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 10 June 2018.
Trinity 1: Serving and the Sabbath
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 3 June 2018.
Trinity: Faith: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 May 2018.
Pentecost: The betrothal of the church
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 20 May 2018.
Bishop Gregor to retire
Bishop Gregor Duncan is to retire on October 11 – his 68th birthday – after more than eight years in office. He offered his valedictory words to the Diocesan Synod in Kilmarnock on May 12: “As St Paul might have put it, be more and more what you already are – called and loved into…
Ascension Sunday: Jesus took us with him
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 13 May 2018.
Commentary: the state of Israel
This month will mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, writes Rev Sydney Maitland, and despite the traumas of regathering the remnants of European Jewry from the charnel houses of the Holocaust, (as well as those dwelling in but expelled from North African and other Arab lands), and then in…
Easter 5: ‘Abide in my love’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 29 April 2018.
Easter 4: ‘I am the vine, you are the branches’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 22 April 2018.
Easter 3: Fake news and the resurrection
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 15 April 2018.
Diocesan scholarship for Likoma Island’s first female university student in decades
A 21-year old student nurse who is the only girl to have studied primary and secondary education on Likoma Island has been awarded a university scholarship by the Diocese of Northern Malawi.
Easter 2: Believing but not seeing
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 8 April 2018.
Easter Day: He is alive!
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 1 April 2018.
Easter message from Bishop Gregor Duncan
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…
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…
Lent 2: Take up the cross and carrying it willingly with Jesus
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 25 February 2018.
Lent 1: We are commissioned with the same message that Jesus Himself had
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 February 2018
Sunday before Lent: From Moses and Elijah to Peter, James and John
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 February 2018.
Epiphany 5: New wine, new wineskins
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 February 2018.
Meeting St Brigit of Kildare
Our Tea and Talk series resumed on Thursday, February 1, when Rebecca Tavener introduced us to St Brigid of Kildare, also known as Brige or Brigantia or Bride.
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