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There is a wall in Bethlehem - Midnight Mass 2024
There is a wall in Bethlehem, it’s 25ft high, known by the Palestinian people as a wall of apartheid casting shadows on either side of....
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Boy Jesus in the temple - Sarah Curl
December 29th 2024 Growing in Faith: Reflections on Writing Sermons and the Story of Jesus in the Temple Writing sermons is a journey...
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Christmas - In the Beginning
In the beginning was the Word. It ’s a strong beginning. Genesis – the story of creation – not the band – begins in the same way. It ’s...
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Judgement
The axe is lying at the root of the trees. Imagine a friend coming to you in a bad way. She tells you she was overly ambitious in the...
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Advent Sunday - the New Mission
Although it might seem a little odd, a little premature, Advent, December, is the beginning of the Church’s year. I like to think it’s...
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Remembrance Sunday: Truth
11 Nov 2024 Truth is powerful. No one can change any truth. One can only seek the truth, find it, recognise it, conform one’s life to it....
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Interpreted by love - the Vicar
14 Oct 2024 Interpreted by Love. It’s the final line of one of the verses of Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, which we sang at a wedding...
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The Church: what it is and what it does - the Vicar
7 Oct 2024 Who will rid me of this turbulent priest? Words sometimes heard in the parish office, in whispers at the back of church,...
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The little door - the Revd Dr Brutus Green
30 Sept 2024 Yesterday I went to Harry Potter world. One of the great things about having children is that you can indulge in things you...
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All too well - the Revd Dr Brutus Green
17 Sept 2024 There’s a Taylor Swift pop song which in Millennial self-indulgence drags out the break-up of a relationship over ten long...
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The Good News of Liberation - the Vicar
9 Sept 2024 ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor he has sent me ,to...
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And thou most kind and gentle death - the Vicar
9 Sept 2024 Creation is about more than fluffy animals and the climate crisis. We are celebrating creation this month to honour God for...
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To be a conservative - the Vicar
9 Sept 2024 To be a Christian is to be conservative. At least in some respects. Today I want to remind you of the ways in which you are...
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We Who Do Not Walk Away
19 Aug 2024 I wanted to begin today’s sermon with a joke about carpentry but I didn’t think it… would-work. The reason being that Jesus,...
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Live and Let Die
22 Jul 2024 I moonlight as chaplain to a livery company in the city. The big livery companies used to be guilds that had monopolies on...
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John the Baptist
15 Jul 2024 It gives you pause – When taking a service of baptism – that John the baptist, the OG baptiser – In the end gets beheaded for...
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St Margaret’s Day and Sarah Curl’s First Mass
8 Jul 2024 One thing which you may, or may not, know about the Revd Sarah Curl is that she got married in Peppa Pig World. Mummy Pig,...
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Easter 3, the Revd Dr Brutus Green
14 Apr 2024 When I was twenty, I got a little cut on my thumb playing hockey in South Devon. Two days later it had turned black and...
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Easter Sunday, the Revd Dr Brutus Green
31 Mar 2024 Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ INFSHSA. My mother used to point to an old man...
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Ash Wednesday: The Woman Caught in Adultery
17 Feb 2024 This is the Gospel of Christ, but it’s not the Gospel of John. No commentator defends it as original to John, no matter...
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