• Sermon – The Proud Young Man

  15/10/2012

  I was preaching today for the first time in about six weeks and had a lot of fun doing so. You can hear what I had to say here or read it below.

  There is something terribly tricky about young men who get excited about religion.

  I remember a number of years ago. I was training to be ordained and was doing an internship in a congregation in Edinburgh in Scotland. Like very many Episcopalians, I did not grow up as an Anglican. I’d come from a background in the Salvation Army and been through many different types of congregation on my journey. I’d been baptist and non-denominational. I’d been just about everything as I searched for the truth.

  And finally, I found what I was looking for in the Scottish Episcopal Church. There I found a church which in which beauty mattered, holiness mattered, worship mattered. It was a church which could cope with the radical theology that had excited me at college and it was a church that had the exotica of every liturgical practise of the ages.

  You know how it is.
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  Castro Street Fair, liturgical dance, proud young men

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