Identity

What is our identity? What difference does that make to our lives? And how does a change in our understanding of our identity make a difference?

Service

It was a pleasure and a privilege to be part of the ordination of Stella, our curate, earlier in the summer. This was my sermon as she led us in celebrating Communion the next day.

Christ’s foolishness and Stormzy

What do you do when Easter day and April Fool’s day coincide? We thought about the foolishness of God, and what the grime star Stormzy can teach us…

Juvenal and the Lord’s Supper

In 1 Corinthians, Paul writes about the divisions between rich and poor, including meals they were supposed to be sharing. These are brought vividly to life by the Roman satirist Juvenal.

How to speak about God?

How do you speak about God? What does that mean? What does it look like? How can we and how can we fail to speak about God?

Advent Prayer

The most basic prayer for Advent is Maranatha, which means “Our Lord come!” It’s the prayer that Paul prayed at the end of his letter to the Corinthians and inspired this prayer which we used for Advent Sunday.

Holiness

Holiness is one of those things that perhaps we don’t think about enough, or perhaps don’t really know what to do about it… Maundy Thursday seemed like a good time to think about some of these things.

Women speaking

When should women be allowed to speak? In what circumstances is it acceptable? It’s an issue with which men have wrestled for a long while…

Planting the flag

A sermon for Palm Sunday evening; the service was for an outreach service for the ‘Senior Friends’ who attend a few times a year and have a tea afterwards. The readings were taken from the lectionary. That of course meant that we didn’t actually have the gospel account of Palm Sunday! (That’s for the morning…

Darwin and God’s Image

Being ‘made in the image of God‘ is a fundamental theological concept, which can help us think about the theory of evolution in a more constructive way than is always the case. This sermon was preached in 2009 as part of a baptism service for both a baby (Ella) and two adults (Emily and Sophie;…