"Brittle crazy glass"

"Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word? He is a brittle crazy glass; Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford This glorious and transcendent place, To be a window, through thy grace." George Herbert

Sunday, 6 September 2020

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Voices from Vindolanda: A Sermon for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity Ezekiel 33: 7-11 In August 2019 during the annual summer excavati...

Sunday, 15 January 2017

A Sermon for the Baptism of Christ

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Isaiah 42:1-9; Matthew 3: 13-end. On Sunday 2 December 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of the French. Although, following the ...

Monday, 9 January 2017

"I wonder as I wander": A Sermon for the Feast of the Epiphany

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In 1933 the American composer John Jacob Niles was at an outdoor meeting in the town of Murphy in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolin...

Tuesday, 20 December 2016

The Four Last Things: an Advent reflection

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I have re-posted these Four Sermons, with a couple of tweaks, in a single blog so that they can be read as a single reflection in the final ...

Sunday, 18 December 2016

The Four Last Things: Hell. A Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent

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What is hell? …the opposite of heaven …other people …the Metrocentre on the last weekend before Christmas? We might not articulate what ...

Sunday, 11 December 2016

The Four Last Things: Heaven. A Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent

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On the third Sunday of Advent we come, as we consider the Four Last Things, to Heaven. Of all the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Hea...

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: I am the Canon Warden at Carlisle Cathedral: https://carlislecathedral.org.uk/I have also have developed a new pattern of Church called God's Tent @revbcarter@CarlisleCath

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