Taken as a story today’s gospel reading has everything. Royalty and power, sex, violence, narrative tension – it’s no wonder that it inspired the play Salome by Oscar Wilde, an opera by Richard Strauss and a film starring Rita Hayworth. But it’s an unusual story to find in the gospels– it hardly refers to Jesus at all … More Power (still) corrupts
Welcome to our service of Holy Communion for the third Sunday of Advent 2020. We begin by singing together On Jordan’s Bank. https://fb.watch/2lGslkCK7u/ We end with the hymn Thou, Whose Almighty Word:
This sermon was given by Rev Deborah on Wednesday 5 February 2020. You can listen again here … More R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Today’s readings are full of images. In the gospel reading John talks about the road, the water, the fire and the axe … More Advent 2 2019
If you enjoy reading novels, you will probably have strong views when authors you love are adapted for the screen … More The Living Word of God
This sermon was given by Rev Deborah on Wednesday 9 October 2019. You can listen again here … More Jonah
There is so much in all the readings today that choosing one theme is almost impossible … More Trinity 2019
How many of us will admit to watching Dr. Who either the earlier episodes or the more recent ones and enjoying the adventures he and I now have to say she gets up to … More Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
This sermon was given by Rev Deborah on Wednesday 21 June. You can listen again here … More Choices and Commitment
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was speaking to a packed church in Memphis trying to stir the conscience of America. As he did so he recounted the struggle for human rights and the challenge that continued to lay ahead … More Listen and Anticipate
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