...Lord will come. We do not know on what day – but, surely – when our Lord comes our liberty will be complete: no person and no thing will constrain...
...sermon I had heard him preach. Forgive me if I quote from it now: In many ways it was a sermon I heard as an undergraduate as I was completing...
...much-misquoted observation that ‘Comparisons are odorous’. The misquotation substitutes the more likely word ‘odious’ for his sound-alike word meaning ‘smelly’; which in itself is ironic, because one of the things...
...healing the sick, and driving out demons, he is speaking to the world’s condition. Now: pilgrims come to Salisbury Cathedral, just as they come to Qasr al-Yahud, and they come...
...God moving in the midst of our manifold diversities like a little child. [1] A rare recording of RS Thomas reciting his own verse can be found online here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDmWxZyXjSc...
Summer Sermon Series: Habakkuk and the Problem of Evil 25th August 2024 A sermon by Kenneth Padley Reading: Habakkuk 1.1-4 https://www.youtube.com/live/2tZsla8Y1fQ?si=UV9SDiulyaIyWfCI This year’s summer sermon series, Old Testament Shorts,...
...then, Jewish students selected their rabbi, not the other way around. It was remarkably commercial – a bit like parents analysing the OFSTED reports and exam results to determine a...
...distressed or angry this makes you, it should not come as a total surprise; and that realism can save us from the sin of thoroughgoing cynicism. Sometimes, though, you commit...
...in the basement of their flat in Nicosia before coming to stay with us in England. The house by the sea was lost – together, presumably, with the diving mask,...