Sermon for the Annunciation: Do you know yourself? Do you know God?

Because she has taken her faith seriously; and because her family have taken the faith seriously; and because she has made the study of wisdom her life, she knows who she is… and she knows who God is…

Sermon: Holy Wisdom, teach us the ways of prudence

My name is wisdom. And it is with me that you are made. I am where you come from in God. I am your origin, your beginning, in God’s hands… wisdom is your birthright, from Creation’s first breath and your first cry.

Advent rubs our faces in the dark: A sermon for Advent Sunday

Advent is cold, and dark, and unflinching for it is everything in us that is cold and dark that Christ came to save.

The Dead like sparks running through stubble: a sermon for All Souls Day 2023

Death turns our love into prayers,
transfigures our silence into praise
and our care into fire.

Sermon: Praise God and live!

Do you remember what they asked Jesus about the man born blind? Who sinned, that this man should be born …

Christ has no body now but yours: A sermon before safeguarding training

“Safeguarding is a path and a practice of learning to be deliberate in our love for the body of Christ, in all our strength and our vulnerability, learning, training ourselves to love, and to hold, by instinct… the body we might otherwise fear.”

Against Christian Antisemitism: Sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity

“They crucified Christ”… is trash theology. We crucified Christ… each of us who ever have death on our heart… and, we are called to remember, that if we had the opportunity, we, fallen human beings, who even now eat up God’s poor as if they were bread, if we had the opportunity to save the status quo… we would crucify him again.

What is truth? The real and living God. – Sermon the Ninth Sunday after Trinity

I have no gift of life for you. Following me won’t lead you into any fullness. My family know I don’t have the answers. But I do follow the one who is the fount and source of life, the living stream. The God who is not dead like the idols of stone and wood, but who lives and breathes that life over me, though I do not merit it, and have done nothing to earn it.

Music that lives: a valedictory for the musicians

In some ways I’m still a chorister at heart. I still remember the momentwhen I turned the corner in the …

Simply, follow – Sermon for the Second Sunday after Trinity

The love of God… is persistent,often quiet, and deeply unsexy.