News & Writing
Here you’ll find news about events at Holy Cross, our magazine, sermons and occasional newsletters. There’s also a calendar and links to our social media.
Keep in Touch with Holy Cross
We have an email list – those on it receive our magazine in electronic form and occasional updates and new items. To be added to the list, contact the Rector at [email protected] and send him a completed contact data form:
We are also present on Twitter @HolyCrossEdin and Instagram @holycrossedinburgh but are currently using these less frequently.
During the periods of lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic we started producing worship videos and posting them on our YouTube channel. They can be viewed here. We hope to continue to post the occasional video on our channel.
Our main social media presence is our Facebook page HolyCrossEdinburgh. This is where we post news, details of upcoming events and photos from past events. Check it out and please like our page.
The Amalarius Blog
Our Rector has a Blog entitled Amalarius in which he shares his thoughts on liturgy, history and religion. These are his own views and do not necessarily represent the position of Holy Cross or the Scottish Episcopal Church. Here are some posts:
- There is a widespread feeling in the Scottish Episcopal Church and elsewhere that Christian mission is best served by worship in contemporary language. My experience is that this is not necessarily so and that behind this widespread feeling are some […]
- This year has seen the removal of obligatory covid restrictions in churches, and congregations have, at varying speeds, been returning to old practices. I have seen much concern for those who still feel anxious and for those who are vulnerable […]
- This is an article commissioned by the Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal and published in the Journal’s Spring 2022 issue. The journal is an academic periodical not a publicity sheet so it wanted a rigorous and critical reading of the St […]
The Amalarius Blog
Visit our Rector’s blog in which he shares his thoughts on liturgy, history and religion.
Latest News & Writing
- Holy Cross Magazine, February 2023Read or download the latest issue of our monthly magazine. If you would like to join the Holy Cross email list, please send your address to the Rector: [email protected] Printed copies of the magazine are also available.
- Divine messy humanity: The Circumcision of Jesus, 1 Jan 2023+ ‘After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb’. In the 1930s Oswald Mosley’s fascist blackshirts were a strong presence in Bristol. A young vicar, Mervyn Stockwood, annoyed […]
- What is Christianity really about? : a sermon for Advent 4+ ‘Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son and you will call him Jesus’. How would you sum up Christianity? What is it really about? Is it […]
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