Pentecost 9
Why does God hide his presence?Matthew 13.44-58Paul asserts that nothing can separate us from the love of God, and that “all things work together for good”. But, if we look…
The Trinity as Healing Power
Is the power of the Trinity actually that it is a healing power? Preachers tend to veer away from talking about the Trinity, but in a hurting world it seems…
Pentecost Thoughts
Pentecost How can we harness the power of the Spirit?Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could really harness the power of the Pentecost Spirit? God comes and the disciples are…
The divine meets the human
I met a woman once, a good woman, a generous woman, a faithful church-going woman, who wore an air of permanent sadness. Her husband had continuing illness, one child was…
How the Magnificat reveals a human’s experience of God
The other day, The Magnificat, or the Song of Mary, came alive for me in a whole new way. I realized I had been missing a very important part of…
Hearing the Inner Word
Why is institutional religion declining in the West? There are several complex reasons of course, but one of the significant causes of decline, it seems to me, is the loss…
Why AI can’t write sermons
Why AI can’t write sermonsWell, of course you could use AI to write a sermon, and it would probably produce something that was a clear summary of thought about the…
The Stroud Crucifix
In the mudbrick chapel of Mary of the Angels in the Anglican Franciscan Old Monastery at Stroud, there is Crucifix which is, in its simplicity, profoundly revelatory about why Christ…