Sermon Topic: Easter

The eternal freshness of the wounds of love.

“There are no victories in human history without their element of tragedy. Victory in human affairs always means that someone has lost. And this usually means that life or welfare, hope or security has been lost.” [1] Words of Rowan Williams, when Archbishop of Canterbury, on visiting Nagasaki and commemorating the victims of the atomic bomb […]

An End to the Danger of Extinction

Yesterday morning, as I was having my breakfast, I decided to listen to news from the BBC on the radio and there was the most startling article about Woolly Mammoths who, of course, became extinct 4,000 years ago, the last herds living in Siberia and Alaska.  Apparently, scientists have been researching the genomes of woolly […]

A Sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter

I’ve always had a soft spot for the paintings of Norman Rockwell. In the house where I grew up there was usually a stack of a few weeks’ worth of Life Magazines and Saturday Evening Posts sitting around somewhere. Rockwell did a lot of cover illustrations for the Post, including one he did in 1961 […]

The Apostle to the Apostles

From the Holy Week 2021 Sermon Series: “Made like him, like him we rise, ours the cross, the grave, the skies”.