It’s life Jim, but not as we know it     May I speak in the name of God the one holy and undivided Trinity.     Sadly that quote from Star Trek is just an urban myth.  But it works quite well for a Pentecost ordination … it’s life – but not as […]

Baptism always raises an interesting question for me.  Will Ellie be more a child of God after her baptism today that she is right now?  Or in other words does God love Ellie quite a lot at the moment, but after her baptism in a few minutes will God love her loads more?   Nonsense – […]

         In the name of the holy and undivided Trinity, one God, now and forever.  Amen.          We hear a great deal about conversion these days, and mostly in a negative light: “conversion” to so-called radical Islam, “conversion” to some new religious practice that we easily dismiss as a cult, even “conversion” away from religion […]

If you remember last week I left you going down the plughole – that is to say I left you with an image of the Book of Revelation not as a simple prophecy telling us what was going to happen some time in the future at the end of the world – nor as an […]

Picture a long flowing river.  The water gathers from the mountain and flows downwards until it becomes wide and fast-flowing.  It goes through valleys and past settlements and communities, small branches break off and take different routes.  Eventually they all flow out into the deep blue ocean. This is usually how we think of time. […]

SERMON—Easter 3 (2016)—(Extra)ordinary Faith In the name of the holy and undivided Trinity: Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. Amen. Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” We sometimes forget just how ordinary a faith experience can be. I don’t mean ordinary is the sense of bland or colourless, or even boring, but ordinary in the […]

This is a bit of a ‘chicken and egg’ kind of sermon.  here’s the Easter chicken – (a duckling actually) and here’s the Easter egg.  Now which one came first? …… Did we human beings invent the story of Jesus rising again, because we like to believe in life after death, or did God invent […]

Then he took the body down from the cross Luke chapter 23 verse 53 In most of our anglican churches the body of Jesus has been taken down from the cross. The crosses on our altars, in our processions and around our necks are nearly always empty – in our tradition – gold or shining brass, inlaid with […]

… following the presentation of the Passion story…