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St Margaret’s Day and Sarah Curl’s First Mass
8 Jul 2024 One thing which you may, or may not, know about the Revd Sarah Curl is that she got married in Peppa Pig World. Mummy Pig,...
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Easter 3, the Revd Dr Brutus Green
14 Apr 2024 When I was twenty, I got a little cut on my thumb playing hockey in South Devon. Two days later it had turned black and...
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Easter Sunday, the Revd Dr Brutus Green
31 Mar 2024 Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ INFSHSA. My mother used to point to an old man...
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Ash Wednesday: The Woman Caught in Adultery
17 Feb 2024 This is the Gospel of Christ, but it’s not the Gospel of John. No commentator defends it as original to John, no matter...
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Safeguarding Sunday!
11 Feb 2024 Vicars are not safe. It’s one of those oddities of language that there is a double meaning in something being “not safe” –...
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Epiphany Carols
31 Jan 2024 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green An Epiphany. Some sort of sudden realisation – Internal – that’s where I left my phone –...
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The hidden life of Jacob
15 Jan 2024 John’s Gospel is a mystery. We don’t know who wrote it, when exactly or where it was written; There are some baffling...
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Sermon for St Cecilia's Day
26 Nov 2023 Sermon preached by Anne East at St Margaret’s for St Cecilia 26 / 11 / 23 Azariah 28-34, 52-59, 68. Psalm 150. Revelation...
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Harvest!
8 Oct 2023 In all times and all places; for all faiths and all peoples, harvest is a time of thanksgiving: for corn, wheat and barley,...
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Original Thinking
4 Sept 2023 I was walking through Battersea with the Archdeacon when a man accosted me. He seemed not to have noticed that the archdeacon...
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Transfiguration and Paradigm shifts
7 Aug 2023 In 1962 Thomas Kuhn published a game-changer book, which caused a bit of a kerfuffle in his own field – and has been taken up...
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Trinity: Nothing Compares to You
31 Jul 2023 It’s been 7 hours and 15 days, Since you took your love away… I don’t know if children watch music videos anymore. Sixth form...
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St Margaret's Day Sermon
2 Jul 2023 Psalm 130 – de profundis Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord : Lord, hear my voice;O let your ears consider...
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“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
16 Apr 2023 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” That line, “Lord, if you had...
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Lent: The Woman at the Well
12 Mar 2023 Sermon by Anne EastReadings: Exodus 17: 1-7, Romans 5: 1-11, John 4:5-42 “ Jesus and the woman at the well ”. One of the...
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Lent: Coming to Jesus by Night
5 Mar 2023 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green To be a Christian is to have a sort of double vision on the world. The world is natural....
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Giving I
5 Feb 2023 In 1937 Dietrich Bonhoeffer published one of the defining works of theology of the twentieth-century: a German Lutheran...
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Epiphany Carols
30 Jan 2023 The visit of the Magi is a strange episode. It doesn’t help that they’re variously referred to as kings, wise-men and magi –...
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Epiphany: Freedom and Friendship
22 Jan 2023 ‘Follow me and I will make you fish for people.’ INFSHSA I don’t know if you’ve ever seen Patrick Stewart playing Macbeth in...
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1st January: The Name of Jesus
1 Jan 2023 Reading: Luke 2: 15 – 21Sermon by Anne East Happy New Year! This year January 1st 2023 falls on a Sunday and we have the...
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