Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

It can’t have escaped anyone’s notice that for many years now the Church has been adopting an increasingly secular business model of operating. One way we see this in the way the Church treats and staffs parishes. When a parish church goes into interregnum these days, there’s no guarantee that it will get another parishContinue reading “Sermon: 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 3) 20th June, 2021”

In our reading from 2 Corinthians this morning, we find St Paul discussing one of what we might call his favourite themes, which is his anthropology, his understanding of humanity, of what it means to be a human being. It would be very simple to say that St Paul has a dualistic understanding of humanContinue reading “Sermon: 11th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 2) 13th June, 2021”

There’s a saying in the Church, and about the Church, which perhaps some of you may have heard, and which goes “The Church would be a wonderful thing, if it wasn’t for its people.” That seems a rather strange thing to say I know because the Church is its people, in fact there wouldn’t andContinue reading “Sermon: 10th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 1) 6th June, 2021”