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November Churches…

November churches in Wiltshire, great and small… Salisbury Cathedral and St Peter’s, Poulshot. Continue reading

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I Would Do Anything for Church Unity But I Won’t Do That: Sermon Preached on 22nd January 2023 (Third Sunday After Epiphany)

Would a big worldwide Church really end Christian divisions & what does this have to do with same-sex marriage? Continue reading

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

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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Beginning Public Ministry in a Liminal Time

Hundreds of people who should have been ending a long road to ordained ministry this week have instead been commissioned as lay ministers via videoconference. Can this experience of liminality help us serve God by helping midwife the new life he and the world seek? Continue reading

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Let’s Worship Outside

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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Chapel Address at Evensong, St Stephen’s House, Oxford, 4 November 2019

Chapel Address at Evensong, St Stephen’s House, Oxford, 4 November 2019 Gerry Lynch “When you talk to God, it’s called prayer. When God talks to you, it’s called insanity.” That bon mot came to mind as I pondered today’s readings … Continue reading

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Blogging Staggers Day One: Praying With the Lepers

The Bartlemas Chapel – a name that sounds like something out of Dickens, and the chapel felt like something from a disappeared world as well. A few hundred metres down a laneway from the noise and bustle of the Cowley … Continue reading

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Presbyterians, Salvation, and God

Cross-posted at Slugger O’Toole. We cremated my friend James on the freakishly warm Friday before St Patrick’s Day, between the two bouts of even freakier snow. We did this after a celebration of the Supper of the Lord Jesus Christ … Continue reading

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Why This Liberal Catholic Will be Praying #ThyKingdomCome

The last thing the disciples are recorded as saying to Christ on Earth: “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” After all they’d been through, they still didn’t get the point. They were looking … Continue reading

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