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Well, here we are once again at the start of another new year. Traditionally, this is a time for making new year’s resolutions, so it’s a time for looking forward. But the turn of the year is also a time when we tend to look back too. A time when we look back over theContinue reading “Sermon: Epiphany of the Lord, Year B 2021”

  Among the most well-known opening lines of any novel, certainly in the English language, is the opening sentence of L.P. Hartley’s 1953 novel, The Go-Between. I don’t know if anyone here has read that book, I haven’t myself but I’m certainly familiar with how it begins, and I think many other people might beContinue reading “Sermon: Holy Family Sunday / Christmas 1 27th December, 2020”

Earlier on this week I was watching a programme on the TV called Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas. I don’t know if anyone else here saw it, but what the programme was about was the way in which what we now regard as Christmas traditions and the way we now celebrate Christmas were,Continue reading “Sermon: Nativity of the Lord 24th and 25th December, 2020”