Sermons

The Tenth Sunday after Trinity

For those of you who know the musical “Joseph”, you’ll recollect that it ends with the following reprise: May I return to the beginningThe light is dimming, and the dream is tooThe world and I, we are still waitingStill hesitating, any dream will do. Give me my coloured coat,My… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 4th August 2013

The Ninth Sunday after Trinity

I’ve got a crush on the Archbishop of Canterbury. That’s not a personal confession, much as I admire him; rather it is the by-line of an op ed piece by Marina Hyde in yesterday’s Guardian. It might sound like a surprising expression of admiration from a journalist; but it’… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 28th July 2013

The Eighth Sunday after Trinity - Evensong

I saw the industrial scene said Lowry and I was affected by it. I wanted to get a certain effect on canvas. I couldn't describe it, but I knew it when I'd got it. I've got a one-track mind, he said, I only deal with poverty. Always with the gloom. And for 40 years, he never tired of paining the ur… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 21st July 2013