29 Aug Sermon: Trinity 10/Proper 16, Year C
21st August, 2022 Legend has it that ‘ At the time when God was giving Torah to Israel, He said to...
29 Aug Sermon: Trinity 9/Proper 15, Year C
14th August, 2022 Today’s Gospel reading is precisely the sort of passage that makes us shift a little uncomfortably in our...
29 Aug Sermon: Trinity 7/Proper 13, Year C
July 31st, 2022 “Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher… all is vanity” [Eccles. 1: 2]Those who like to ascribe all the...
30 Jul Sermon: Trinity 6, Year C
24th July, 2022 Among the tales of the Hasidim there is one concerning Rabbi Barukh’s grandson, who was once playing a...
30 Jul Sermon: Trinity 5, Year C
17th July, 2022 In her sermon last week, Leah alluded to the difficulties of approaching well known bible passages, and I...
30 Jul Sermon: Trinity 4, Year C.
10th July, 2022 It can be difficult approaching a passage like this, the story of the Good Samaritan— so well known...
30 May Sermon: Easter 7 (Year C)
In the name of the Father and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit. Amen I ask not only on...
30 May Sermon: Easter 6 (Year C)
I wonder what St Paul actually said to Lydia, the cloth-dealer of Philippi. Our first reading just states that he ‘spoke...
30 May Sermon: Easter 5 (Year C)
The Prologue to St Benedict’s ‘Rule’ famously begins with the word listen. The word is made much of in talks...
30 May Sermon: Easter 4 (Year C)
Many years ago John Bell of the Iona Community wrote a series of short ‘playlets’, Eh… Jesus. Yes Peter…? Dialogues...