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Letter in the Daily Telegraph, 27 December 2025

Posted on January 3, 2026 by Gerry Lynch

I am grateful to the Daily Telegraph for publishing a letter from me in its edition of Saturday 27 December, in response to an article that was, I have to say, particularly irritating in its ill-warranted and self-deceiving triumphalism. I … Continue reading →

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Is Doing Good Enough?: Sermon Preached on 31st August 2025 (Eleventh Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on August 31, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

At one level, parish church Christianity is about helping people do good; go deeper, and more than this is needed. Continue reading →

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Paddington Bear and the Girl with Blue Hair

Posted on October 1, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Liberal Christians have tried & failed to present the Gospel to appeal to well-educated progressives, while ignoring working-class women Continue reading →

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Faith, Gays, and Sandi Toksvig: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 7th August 2022 (The Eighth Sunday after Trinity)

Posted on August 7, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

“Just be a good person” is a charming sentiment – from a nursery school teacher or an 8-year-old. Not from an intelligent adult Continue reading →

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Five Years in Jail for Saying “I’m Gay”? We Must Speak Out

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

A new law in Ghana would jail people for 5 years just for saying they’re gay or trans. The Church must oppose this. Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastical History Rocks: 1960s Pentecostalism and Nigerian Anglicans

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

I spotted this interesting article and follow up letter in the Church Times when exploring its coverage of the 1968 Lambeth Conference. The article notes that the number of Anglicans in “the western part of Nigeria” was declining in favour … Continue reading →

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Wisdom and the Cross: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 12 September 2021 (The Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – Wisdom 7:26 – 8:1; Mark 8:27–38 “She is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars.” In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. On a … Continue reading →

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Cassettes, Communion, and Guardians of the Galaxy: Online Worship isn’t the Answer to Everything

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Gerry Lynch

Young people are getting back into cassettes and compilations; whatever merits it has, online worship can’t be the future of the Church, at least not on its own. Continue reading →

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Let’s Worship Outside

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Gerry Lynch

The News Letter later asked me to turn this blog into a newspaper article which you can read here. The dreadful news that more than a hundred people were infected with coronavirus at a single, legally permitted, church service in … Continue reading →

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The Bright Field

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Gerry Lynch

Late on a summer evening, as I took photos from the summit of Divis (478m above sea level) the highest of the Belfast Hills towards Lough Neagh, suddenly a shaft of sunlight broke through and illuminated the fields on top … Continue reading →

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