'midwinter' by Katy Sawrey
We are always so excited to launch our Christmas card each year. For the last number of years, we have been fortunate enough to have...
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Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 20, 20231 min read
Soul Food Christmas Meals 2023
Here's a list of the Soul Food meals running in Edinburgh over Christmas and New Year. Please do share it widely, our hot, freshly...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Nov 8, 20231 min read
Introducing our Soul Food Christmas Card 2023
We are delighted to share our new Soul Food charity Christmas card for 2023 - The Life - Light by artist Linda Hoskins
Soul Food Edinburgh
Sep 5, 20233 min read
Upcoming Soul Food Volunteer Training
I wanted to dedicate a blog post to informing you of three important training sessions that we are hosting for Soul Food volunteers in...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Jan 20, 20233 min read
Dorothy Day
Friday 20th January 2023 I am not sure how long it is appropriate to wish one's friends "Happy New Year', but as this is the first blog...
hello73590
Dec 23, 20221 min read
Curious blessing: the blessing is ours
For the last time, this Advent, we gather our week’s blessings, and declare them together: May we be willing to receive the unexpected...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 22, 20224 min read
Curious blessings: finding a king
Image: The Other Wise Man by Ancell Stronach ‘You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 21, 20222 min read
Curious blessings: gathering the graces
“But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Luke 2:19: The wise men, we read, left their encounter with the...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 20, 20224 min read
Curious blessings: when the gift is for those who give
Image: Dream of the Magi by Gislebertus “When they [the Seekers of Wisdom (Magi)] saw the star rising in the East, they jumped with joy,...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 19, 20224 min read
Curious blessings: when a gift is a question mark
“When they [the Seekers of Wisdom (Magi)] saw the star rising in the East, they jumped with joy , and with glad hearts they followed...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 16, 20221 min read
Blessing in the darkness: the blessing is ours
Today we gather the week’s blessings, and declare them together: May we find in the darkness, a blessing. May we know ourselves held, by...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 15, 20224 min read
Blessing in the darkness: the companionship of God
Image: St Enoch and her son St Mungo by Smug **CONTENT WARNING: contains brief reference to sexual assault/rape** Wherever we are, there...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 14, 20222 min read
Blessing in the darkness: finding God in the shadows
‘Advent begins in the dark’, writes Fleming Rutledge. In the book of Genesis, we are told that all of creation also began in the same way...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 13, 20224 min read
Blessing in the darkness: Herod and blessing as solidarity
On the 16th September 2022, twenty-two year-old, Mahsa Amini died in police custody in Iran, after having been arrested by the morality...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 12, 20224 min read
Blessing in the darkness: Herod and blessing in times of trouble
“It was during the days of bad-hearted Chief Looks Brave (Herod) that the Chosen (Jesus) was born in the village of House of Bread...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 9, 20221 min read
Honouring reality: the blessing is ours
Today we gather the week’s blessings, and declare them together: May you, when all is not as you had hoped or dreamed, hear the...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 8, 20223 min read
Honouring reality: Horatio Spafford’s blessing in sorrow
Image: Horatio Spafford “May you, when you stand in the ashes of what could have been, find God standing with you, speaking your name.”...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 7, 20222 min read
Honouring reality: blessing in the ruins
Image: The Ruins (Inner Voices) by James Tissot As we reflect on Joseph who was blessed precisely because his life didn’t go as he...
Soul Food Edinburgh
Dec 6, 20223 min read
Honouring reality: Joseph and blessing when our hopes are dashed
When I was 22 years old I made a list of all the things I hoped to do before I was 30. It said: Live on Orkney for a year Live in Dublin...
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