Category Archives: Sunday Sermons

As I’m sure most if not all of you know, I trained for ordination at the College of Resurrection at Mirfield. At the time I was there, the college was unique  amongst Church of England theological colleges and one of the ways in which it was unique is that it was the only college whichContinue reading “Sermon for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 20th July 2025”

The first US President that I remember was Richard Nixon. I’m sure many of you will remember Nixon and some who don’t remember him will have heard of him because of the nature of his downfall, his resignation to avoid impeachment for of his attempted cover-up of the Watergate affair. Perhaps because he is theContinue reading “Sermon for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 6th July 2025”

One of the problems I’ve spoken about in the past is that of trying to really understand what’s going on in a Sunday Gospel reading when we read them as we do, that is, taken out of the context of the Gospel as a whole. And I think today’s Gospel reading is a good exampleContinue reading “Sermon for the 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time, 29th June 2025”