• Christmas Day Sermon 2012

  25/12/2012

  Many of you will be aware that I recently have returned from a big sabbatical trip to churches in Canada and the United States.

  I was there to learn and reflect and grow and I did that by making contact with the most interesting folk I could find in church life on the other side of the North Atlantic.

  Inevitably I spent quite a lot of time poking around churches over there and coming from this cathedral, I was interested in what cathedrals over there were up to.

  Which is how I found myself in the National Cathedral in Washington DC just a day or two after the American Election in November.

  It is a mighty building. Far bigger than we are but when I saw it, it was not looking its best. Still recovering from an earthquake which wobbled all its stonework, they have netting strung all across the nave to catch falling fragments. So you stand in this enormous church unable to look up and appreciate the great spaces.

  Unable to look up, instead I went down. For underneath the nave is a maze of twisty passages which lead (more…)

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• Questions for Ordinands #3

  09/12/2004

  Prepare an Advent sermon to explain the phrase, “we who bear your threefold likeness look for the City of Peace” [Hint – consider how you would explain this phrase to the young church group]

• Questions for Ordinands #2

  08/12/2004

  “Prayer is a cyberspace.” Discuss. [Hint – reflections on pastoral placements will be particularly helpful in answering this question].

• Questions for Ordinands #1

  07/12/2004

  Prepare a theological reflection on the natural affinity of the dog collar with the fruit bowl in the average clergy household. [Hint – Consider using poetry, collage, mime or song in your response to this question].

• Spare hymnbooks anyone?

  07/12/2004

  Following significant growth in the choir at St Saviour’s over the last year, we find ourselves short of choir copies of our normal hymn book – Hymns Ancient and Modern: New Standard Edition. It may be that we have to buy more copies (at ?30 a go), though I would prefer not to have to…