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Sunday, February 23, 2020

Justifying the Lawyers

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Sermon for Quinquagesima Why do lawyers get such bad press? For many people, the lawyer is an "ambulance chaser", someone ...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Proving the Rule

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Sermon for Sexagesima Is it ever acceptable to run a red light? Punch someone on the nose? Steal a loaf of bread? Commit adultery? ...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

Jobs on the fridge

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Sermon for Septuagesima What is the point of a newborn baby? [PAUSE] It’s terrifying to think that there are people who don’t e...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

Purifying Ecclesiastical Decrepitude

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Sermon for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary The church building is showing its age. The white plaster is greyin...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

The lips that speak the word

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Sermon for the third Sunday after Epiphany One big criticism that we get from other criticism is that all of our public prayers are rea...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Tweeting the Gospel?

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Sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany That’s a very strange response to an introduction. St Philip comes up to Jesus and says...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

Haunted Churches?

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Sermon for the first Sunday after Epiphany It has been said that the British Isles are the most haunted place on Earth. Whether or not ...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Thinking about “Thinking about conservative Christianity and divisions”

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I came across this article by the retired CofE priest Stephen Parsons whom I have mentioned before here. Mr Parsons has been a voice for t...
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Sunday, January 05, 2020

Sons in quicksand

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Sermon for the second Sunday after Christmas One thing that simple biology tells us very clearly is that we can only be the child of on...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Painting our way into the fold

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Sermon for the first Sunday after Christmas Wile E. Coyote has decided that the best way to catch Roadrunner is to paint a door on the ...
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Saturday, December 28, 2019

Blogday 2019: Chugging along

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Today we are fourteen. Well, I’m posting this a day early so as not to confuse it with tomorrow’s sermon. I find that if I do two posts i...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Binding the spiritual

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Sermon for Christmas Day There are many people out there who say that they are “spiritual but not religious.” What do they mean? Th...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

The End of the Book of Life

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Sermon for the fourth Sunday in Advent In this day of technology and information, there is still something to be said in favour of book...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Waiting for the Grapes of Wrath

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Sermon for the third Sunday in Advent We stand with St John looking at the working out of God’s plan for the Earth. The scene is that o...
Sunday, December 08, 2019

Thousands and thousands

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Sermon for the second Sunday in Advent The question is there for all to see. If you’ve managed to bind up the Devil in the bottomles...