SERMONS

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Sermon for St Cecilia's Day

26 Nov 2023 Sermon preached by Anne East at St Margaret’s for St Cecilia 26 / 11 / 23 Azariah 28-34, 52-59, 68. Psalm 150. Revelation...

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Harvest!

8 Oct 2023 In all times and all places; for all faiths and all peoples, harvest is a time of thanksgiving: for corn, wheat and barley,...

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Original Thinking

4 Sept 2023 I was walking through Battersea with the Archdeacon when a man accosted me. He seemed not to have noticed that the archdeacon...

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Transfiguration and Paradigm shifts

7 Aug 2023 In 1962 Thomas Kuhn published a game-changer book, which caused a bit of a kerfuffle in his own field – and has been taken up...

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Trinity: Nothing Compares to You

31 Jul 2023 It’s been 7 hours and 15 days, Since you took your love away… I don’t know if children watch music videos anymore. Sixth form...

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St Margaret's Day Sermon

2 Jul 2023 Psalm 130 – de profundis Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord : Lord, hear my voice;O let your ears consider...

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“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

16 Apr 2023 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” That line, “Lord, if you had...

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Lent: The Woman at the Well

12 Mar 2023 Sermon by Anne EastReadings: Exodus 17: 1-7, Romans 5: 1-11, John 4:5-42 “ Jesus and the woman at the well ”. One of the...

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Lent: Coming to Jesus by Night

5 Mar 2023 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green To be a Christian is to have a sort of double vision on the world. The world is natural....

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Giving I

5 Feb 2023 In 1937 Dietrich Bonhoeffer published one of the defining works of theology of the twentieth-century: a German Lutheran...

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Epiphany Carols

30 Jan 2023 The visit of the Magi is a strange episode. It doesn’t help that they’re variously referred to as kings, wise-men and magi –...

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Epiphany: Freedom and Friendship

22 Jan 2023 ‘Follow me and I will make you fish for people.’ INFSHSA I don’t know if you’ve ever seen Patrick Stewart playing Macbeth in...

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1st January: The Name of Jesus

1 Jan 2023 Reading: Luke 2: 15 – 21Sermon by Anne East Happy New Year! This year January 1st 2023 falls on a Sunday and we have the...

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Christmas: this quintessence of dust

24 Dec 2022 Readings: John 1:1-14Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green …I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth,...

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Advent IV: The Nativity Play

18 Dec 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green When I first arrived at St Margaret’s there hadn’t been a Nativity play for some time....

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Work in Progress

11 Dec 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green The mind is a funny thing. It prefers to deal with broad brush strokes rather than detail,...

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St Nicholas

6 Dec 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green St Nicholas is a good saint to celebrate at this time of year. He reminds us, and helps us...

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Advent

27 Nov 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green In my early twenties I started a phd in theology and literature, which took the best part...

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Christ the King

20 Nov 2022 Sermon preached by Anne EastReadings: Jeremiah 23: 1-6, Colossians 1: 11-20, Luke 23:33-43 I have been reading ‘Ghosts of...

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Remembrance Sunday

13 Nov 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green As the world never ceases to spin, and technology runs our social lives, dating, churches...

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