Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 18 August 2024. ‘May we … live by every word that comes from the mouth of God and not from our own emotions.’
Trinity 11: One area of faith that must be challenged
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 11 August 2024. ‘I do not believe that Jesus came in order to found a church or even the church. Emphatically not.’
Trinity 10: The ‘I AM’ of Jesus
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 4 August 2024. ‘This is life far beyond existing, breathing, eating and procreating. This is life lived and known in the light of God. It is life that celebrates and rejoices in the things of God and where God is the foundation of all else that is.’
Trinity 9: God waits to be gracious to us
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 27 July 2024. ‘We do not have to be defined or limited by our sins, failures or disappointments. Not when the glory of the fulness of Jesus Christ is just waiting to be poured over and into us.’
Discipline Tribunal hearing to be rescheduled
The Clergy Discipline Tribunal hearing into allegations against Bishop Anne Dyer, scheduled for September 2024, has been postponed following an application on behalf of the Bishop for further preparation time. The request was granted by the Tribunal. The hearing was scheduled to begin on 10 September 2024 in Edinburgh, and work is now underway to…
Last call for views on ‘assisted dying’
There are three weeks remaining during which submissions can be made to the Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee ‘Call for Views’ on the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill. The purpose of the call for evidence is to gather views on the Bill which will inform the Committee’s scrutiny. The…
Trinity 8: A vision of a new humanity
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 21 July 2024. ‘So yes, we are all sheep without a shepherd until we receive Jesus Christ.’
Upcoming Bishop search process and Diocesan description
A message from the Rt Rev Andrew Swift, Acting Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway: “The election of a new Bishop is a vital part of the life and ministry of a Scottish Episcopal diocese. As you say farewell to Bishop Kevin, please keep in prayer him and Elspeth and all those who will be part…
Trinity 7: What was true then is true today
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 14 July 2024. ‘The lessons of King David, King Herod and of the church in Ephesus are all there for us to receive and ponder.’
Trinity 6: ‘Find yourself in Me’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 7 July 2024. ‘Our ministries and areas of Christian service are never our possessions. They are always those areas of serving that are entrusted to us by the Lord.’
Commentary: Where do truth and justice lie?
The General Election was called and somehow the power in the land passed from its politicians and government into the hands of the media, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. It is now the journalists, editors, presenters, commentators and pollsters who were making the running as each party, its leaders and manifestoes are held up to examination,…
Trinity 5: Faith with courage
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 30 June 2024. ‘Just as King David rose above his grief at the death of Saul and Jonathan, so also Jairus and the unnamed woman of Capernaum had to step outside their comfort zones …’
Celebration service for Bishop Kevin Pearson + Acting Bishop named
A celebration service for the Rt Rev Kevin Pearson, Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway, was held on Saturday 29 June at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow. Over 300 people filled the cathedral, coming together to honour Bishop Kevin as he prepares to retire later this summer, 44 years after he was ordained to…
Trinity 4: The utter glory and majesty of the love of God in Jesus
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 23 June 2024. ‘Never just a feeling or an emotion – rather a living truth that transcends all other realities.’
Scottish Episcopal Church found to have been using NDAs
The Scottish Episcopal Church has made use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), the Church Times has discovered — even though the Primus, the Most Revd Mark Strange, has questioned whether they are appropriate, saying: “I don’t think anyone should be silenced.” In an interview for the Church Times podcast, Bishop Strange, who has been the Primus since 2017, said:…
Trinity 3: Our shepherd, teacher and saviour
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 16 June 2024. ‘Yes, this is Jesus Christ: the Word who expressed the will of God in creation and who came among us to rescue from ourselves and restore us to that place where God is from everlasting to everlasting.’
Bishop Dyer case expected to cost Scottish Episcopal Church £½m
The disciplinary process concerning the Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, the Rt Revd Anne Dyer, is expected to cost the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) more than £500,000, The Sunday Times has reported. Accounts published in advance of this week’s meeting of the Church’s General Synod show that £325,000 was spent last year on legal and other fees related to…
Investigation into ‘bullying’ by female bishop set to cost church £500,000
The cost of investigating complaints of bullying and financial impropriety made against Scotland’s first woman bishop is on track to reach more than £500,000. The Right Rev Anne Dyer was suspended as the Anglican bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in 2022, a year after priests and church staff came forward to claim that she was…
Trinity 2: Spiritual kinship with Jesus
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 9 June 2024. ‘Those who follow the purposes of God in their lives are also those to whom He has dedicated His life.’
Trinity 1: ‘Speak, for your servant is listening’
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 2 June 2024. ‘We also are here for the sake of the Lord and in order to offer a light and a hope to others.’
Trinity: God has taken the initiative for the whole of humanity
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 26 May 2024. ‘At Christmas we celebrate God coming into the world in Jesus; at Easter we celebrate His victory over sin and death. At Pentecost we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. And at Trinity we celebrate all three at once.’
Commentary: Drawing together in faith and confidence
The date 3 September 1989 still rings bells with me, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. It is not just that it was 50 years since the declaration of war by the British Government on Nazi Germany, but it was also the day when the first non-dictatorial regime had come to office in Poland since 1939. The…
Bishop Kevin gives formal notice of retirement
The Rt Rev Kevin Pearson, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, has given formal notice of his resignation (as required under Canon 7 of the Code of Canons of the Scottish Episcopal Church) to the Primus, the Most Rev Mark Strange, following Bishop Kevin’s announcement earlier this year that he will retire on 31 August 2024 shortly after…
Diocese of Argyll & The Isles elects new Bishop
A new Bishop has been chosen in the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles, with the Rev David Railton elected to the position that has been vacant since the death of Bishop Keith Riglin in September 2023. Mr Railton accepted the post following a vote of the Electoral Synod, held today in Oban. He becomes…
Pentecost: The fruits of the spirit
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 19 May 2024. ‘Faith, hope and love all abide – and the greatest is love, which we need to be grown within us and among us.’
Discipline Tribunal to hear complaints against Bishop Dyer
In November 2023, the Preliminary Proceedings Committee (PPC) of the Scottish Episcopal Church referred to the Church’s Procurator a number of complaints lodged under Canon 54 against the Rt Rev Anne Dyer, Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney. The complaints had been referred to the Procurator for further consideration following investigation by the PPC. The Procurator,…
Ascension: A personal assurance
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 12 May 2024. ‘Humanity is rife in its selection of personal resentments, all demanding redress and restitution. But none of this remotely sets aside the glory and wonder of Jesus Christ, risen and ascended.’
Easter 5: Rejoice in new harmonies
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 5 May 2024. ‘How can an ear rejoice in new harmonies when still deafened by old discords, or an eye see colours when still having to look through a darkened lens, bespattered by mud?’
Easter 4: Grounded in where we belong
Sermon by Rev Sydney Maitland for Sunday 28 April 2024. ‘Jesus is not going away, even when things feel dark and foreboding. He is as much with us in those times of trial and temptation as in times of light and peace and joy.’
Commentary: An easy target
It’s the vicar wot dunnit!’ This was an almost routine explanation for any villainy in some rather unimaginative dramas shown during the 1960s and 1970s, writes Rev Sydney Maitland. The church was an easy target because it did not hit back and the charge of hypocrisy could be levelled so deliciously. The sense of bile…
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