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• In Other Words

  

  Translating the resurrectionLet’s face it – the concept of resurrection is outside our experience. Most people in an Easter congregation this morning will know... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Syncopated Not Schizophrenic

  

  Diverse rhythms on Good Friday Today I have had my usual Easter dilemma of writing sermons about hope and resurrection whilst at the same time dwelling in the... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Sanctity of Friendship

  

  Maundy ThursdayI always introduce the act of communion with a description of Jesus ‘sitting at a table with his friends. This is why:Long, long ago, when the... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• One Sermon

  

  Two voices Below is the text of a sermon which was never preached, but which was heard twice.  In it I have fused phrases from the texts of the inaugural sermon... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Rock Music

  

  Name that tuneJust outside the little Breton Town of St Cast Le Guildo there are brown signs to a spot on the riverbank saying “pierres sonnantes” (literally:... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Change the Record!

  

  Seven years old todaySo, Twitter is seven years old today. It now has over 2 million users and people are sending over 400 million tweets each day. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Alarm Clocks and Wellie Boots

  A teatime storySixteen Months ago the Littlest Star was born at a teatime special in the church where I work. Since then we have held a number of such events,... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Confessions of a Coward

  

  God loves a cheerful giverSome thirty years after doing it as a student, I have finally got around to giving blood again. In the intervening years there has bee... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Riding for a Reason

  

  Premier lends a handOne of the things I have learnt before about charity projects is that they truly do bring out the best in people. Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Lent 4

  

  PrayerIn some ways, this is the hardest of our four topics, since it is the best known, and most often taught. We started the evening with a look at the... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Is Isolation an Ism?

  

  Cut off from a world of connectivitySome time in the middle of this afternoon the papal master of ceremonies will issue the instruction ‘extra omnes’, the... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• God Knows

  

  Voices from Syria As a preacher I occasionally wake up in a cold sweat and wonder what it would be like to lose my voice. How would it feel, I wonder to be... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Lost and Found

  

  The perspective of persistenceA little later this morning I shall be preaching from Luke’s Gospel, chapter 15 v. 1 – 10. In those verses Jesus, who has... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Second of the 100

  

  Reasons to peddleExactly three months from today, at quarter to midnight, I shall set off from one of  London’s highest points, at Crystal Palace, to ride 100 K... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Lent 3

  

  Alms In the third of this Lent series, we looked at the discipline of  alms-giving. As on other occasions, what follows give a fully clickable taster of what... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• In Praise of Clutter

  

  A providential momentAs some of you will know, I have spent the past few Sunday evenings preaching on ‘overheard prayers’. With somebody else preaching this... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The First of The100

  

  Bringing out the bestLast Thursday I took a deep breath and a brave (or foolish) decision to ride 100km across London by night for charity. As a man who... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Divided by a Common Language

  

  Honouring our church musiciansWhen I went on an internet hunt just now to track down the origin of the description of Britain and America as “two nations divide... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 LANGUAGES, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Lent 2

  

  FastingLast night I taught the second in a series of four multi-media, interactive sessions in a Lent course. As promised, I provide here an outline of the... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Goodbye, Old Friend

  

  Changing the unchangeable..When I arrived in my office yesterday, a parcel was waiting for me. With some degree of excitement I ripped off the packaging to... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY