Soul Food Blog

This Christmas time we wanted to ask you for your help. To do this we thought it might be helpful to tell you something of who we are. To...

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...

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...

We are delighted to share our new Soul Food charity Christmas card for 2023 - The Life - Light by artist Linda Hoskins

I wanted to dedicate a blog post to informing you of three important training sessions that we are hosting for Soul Food volunteers in...

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...

For the last time, this Advent, we gather our week’s blessings, and declare them together: May we be willing to receive the unexpected...

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...

“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...

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,...

“When they [the Seekers of Wisdom (Magi)] saw the star rising in the East, they jumped with joy , and with glad hearts they followed...

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...

Image: St Enoch and her son St Mungo by Smug **CONTENT WARNING: contains brief reference to sexual assault/rape** Wherever we are, there...

‘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...

On the 16th September 2022, twenty-two year-old, Mahsa Amini died in police custody in Iran, after having been arrested by the morality...

“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...

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...

Image: Horatio Spafford “May you, when you stand in the ashes of what could have been, find God standing with you, speaking your name.”...

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...