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Once Pentecostalism Rose in Latin America. Now the Churchless are Growing.

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Gerry Lynch

Once Pentecostalism Rose in Latin America. Now the Churchless are Growing. Continue reading →

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Interview with Adam Curtis; Article on Church Closures

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

Gerry Lynch interviews BBC documentary-maker Adam Curtis, and writes about whether Britain’s churches face imminent closure. 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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The Times Are Changing: Sermon Preached on 9th February 2025 (Fourth Sunday before Lent)

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Gerry Lynch

When you lose your illusions about this world, you might find all you dared hope about the world to come is true. Continue reading →

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The Good Shepherd: Sermon Preached on 21st April 2024 (Fourth Sunday of Easter)

Posted on April 26, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

We can fall into using the story of the Good Shepherd as twee spiritual wallpaper. Continue reading →

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Christianity is Strange: Sermon Preached on 4th February 2024 (Second Sunday Before Lent)

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Christianity is a very weird belief system. Only the way it has dominated our mindsets for over a thousand years obscures that. Continue reading →

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Answers in Genesis?

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

I used to say that if the answers were in Genesis, it must have been a very silly question: but the Fall is central to the narrative logic of Christianity. Continue reading →

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Jesus is Coming Back: Sermon Preached at Holy Cross, Seend, Sunday 27th November 2022 (The First Sunday of Advent)

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Talk of the Second Coming makes us nervous, but without judgement there’s no justice Continue reading →

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Heaven in Our Hearts: Sermon Preached at St John’s Devizes, Sunday 30th October 2022 (Commemoration of the Departed for All Souls’)

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Resurrection is not nostalgia nor wishful thinking but an awareness that our lives are but one element of a reality that stretches beyond sensory perception 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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