In CS Lewis’s ‘Narnia’ books, four children – Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy explore a different world called Narnia, and encounter Aslan, the giant Lion who stands, in Lewis’s stories, for Christ. In ‘The Dawn Treader’, Lucy and Edmund have been stranded on a strange island. There’s a moment where Lucy, the youngest, is waiting […]
Sermon Luke 24.13-35 One night last week we had to call out an emergency plumber because we had a leak in our kitchen. He arrived, a big man with no hair and a mask over his face and set to work, mumbling to us occasionally through the mask while his head was under our kitchen […]
As you have read or listened to Psalm 130 – what word or phrase speaks strongly to you right now? What rings true to how you feel, or to your own situation? I’d like to share some brief thoughts on three of the words or phrases in this psalm and how they might speak […]
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St John and St Stephen’s Church, Reading, March 15th 2020, Lent 3 Psalm 46, John 4:5-42 What a strange time. We can’t go anywhere, talk to anyone, turn on the TV, radio, internet or look at your smartphone without a blaring mention of coronavirus. Now let’s add to that the now visible effects […]
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This is a first for me, leading a carol service that properly features a crib. It’s great to have a visual focus like a crib, at Christmas. We can experience God in a different way when we really focus visually on something, rather than hearing words. I invite you to look and really LOOK […]
At this time of year we get to enjoy seven “Advent Antiphons” when we say Morning Prayer, and I always look forward to them. The ‘O Antiphons’ developed in the early church as sung prayers before and after Mary’s hymn, the Magnificat. They refer to different names of Jesus from the Old Testament Wisdom and prophetic […]
31 October – All Hallows Eve – and it’s an in between kind of time. In between because late autumn the year turns, the clocks tick back, and we resign ourselves to the temporary dying of nature as the leaves swirl down the streets towards winter and the end of another year. In between the […]