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Jun 15, 20243 min read
Ascension
Those of us who use the (Nicene) Creed in our worship will recognise the sequence, “On the third day he rose again in accordance with the...
May 27, 20243 min read
Collects: the Little Gems of Prayer
I wonder what people, especially newcomers to our churches, make of the announcement of ‘the Collect’ in church services...
Apr 6, 202316 min read
Meditations for Good Friday
Meditations for Good Friday on Words from the Cross & the Lord’s Prayer THE LORD’S PRAYER AND THE WORDS FROM THE CROSS Introduction to...
Feb 26, 20233 min read
William Bird
Anyone who has ever sung in a (traditional) church choir is likely to have sung some much beloved and glorious anthems composed by...
Feb 26, 20233 min read
Earthquakes—Hand of God?
The devastation caused in Turkey and northern Syria by recent earthquakes continue to dominate our news, and our thoughts inevitably go...
Dec 10, 20222 min read
COP27—what did it achieve?
COP—’Conference of the Parties’—we all know is the UN conference on all aspects of Climate change, the 27th COP held in Egypt having just...
Dec 10, 20222 min read
Brightest and Best...
Epiphany has inspired some beautiful hymns and music. Travellers from exotic places offering precious gifts to a baby in a manger...
Oct 7, 20223 min read
The Lectionary
Readers will remember Jesus returning to Nazareth during his public ministry and being given the scroll to read on the Sabbath day, at...
Oct 7, 20223 min read
John Donne
‘No man is an island’ – is one of those oft-quoted sayings. Not many people know, or maybe care about, what follows on in John Donne’s...
Sep 5, 20224 min read
Parables
We know that much of the teaching of Jesus was in the form of Parables. Indeed some of the themes of parables from the Gospels have...
Jul 5, 20223 min read
A Sermon for Ascension—2022
This year the Feast of Ascension coincided with the beginning of the long weekend celebrating Her Majesty’s 70 years on the throne. The...
Jun 8, 20223 min read
Sheep, Shepherd and the Lamb
Last month we explored the theme of sacrifice in Christianity and noted that there was a paradox, of Jesus being the sacrifice as well as...
May 15, 20224 min read
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is a word that we use lightly these days: try counting up how many times it occurs in our regular worship, or on the news and...
May 15, 20222 min read
Putin and his Church
A most remarkable feature of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine has been the conduct of Kirill, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church,...
May 15, 20223 min read
Putin's Russia
In a recent letter to The Times Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, 2002 – 2012, lamented the lack of any condemnation by the...
Mar 18, 20222 min read
Our BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation turns 100 years old this year. Also known as the Beeb and Auntie, she has indeed become a grand old...
Mar 9, 20222 min read
The Collect for Ash Wednesday
A wise old priest is once said to have advised his young curate thus: ‘Young man, if ever you are wondering about what you should preach...
Feb 1, 20223 min read
A Hymn for Everyone...
One of my favourite hymns starts ‘Come Down O Love Divine’. It struck me recently that this hymn is a prayer that anyone could make their...
Jan 29, 20224 min read
The Creeds (7)... the Life to Come
In the earlier parts of the Creeds, we profess our belief in God, the Father and Creator, his only begotten Son, our Saviour Jesus...
Dec 1, 20213 min read
The Creeds (6) ...the one Holy,Catholic Church
It may come as a surprise to some people that it is not only in Jesus Christ that we claim to believe. And even more of a surprise that...
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