Sunday, 14 September 2025

"Domination" and the cross: a sermon for Holy Cross Day

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Holy Cross Day marks the day when, so the legend tells, the True Cross was discovered in Jerusalem by Saint Helena in the early fourth centu...
Monday, 11 August 2025

Pictures of God - a sermon for the eighth Sunday after Trinity

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How do we, with our limited minds, come to know the true scale of God’s promise and love to us all? How do we, as I heard one theologian put...
Tuesday, 29 April 2025

"The dead shall be raised incorruptible" - a sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter

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Stanley Spencer’s painting The Resurrection: Cookham is one of the great works of twentieth century Christian art. Painted in the 1920s and...
Sunday, 16 March 2025

"Hear us, good Lord" - learning from the wisdom of The Litany: a sermon for the second Sunday of Lent

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The Second Sunday of Lent, Carlisle Cathedral:  Genesis 15: 1-7, 17-18 & Luke 13: 31-end. The Litany , which we heard sung in procession...
Sunday, 19 January 2025

"I wonder as I wander" - a sermon for the Second Sunday after Epiphany

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In 1933 an  American, John Jacob Niles, was at an outdoor meeting in the town of Murphy in the  Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. At ...
Sunday, 24 November 2024

"Love Him in the World of the Flesh": a sermon for the Feast of Christ the King

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I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Those words begi...
Sunday, 3 November 2024

Chronos and Kairos: a sermon for All Saints'

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Time and tide, they say, waits for no one.  I have come to a time in my life where time, all of a sudden, seems to be a real and palpable th...