We might not be in Rio de Janeiro or Sydney, but my advice is to make as much carnival as you can in the next couple of days – even if it only amounts to a couple of pancakes – … Continue reading →

Sermon on Proverbs 8: 1, 22-31, Colossians 1: 15-20 and John 1: 1-14 It’s a well attested phenomenon, a cliché even: you wait for a bus and then two or three come along together. On the 65 bus route four … Continue reading →

Readings Psalm 65, Genesis 2.4b–end, Luke 8.22–35 Preacher Canon Robert Titley What do you want from God? What would be missing if God wasn’t there? The philosopher Bertrand Russell was an atheist, but he felt being atheist had its downside. … Continue reading →

Readings Colossians 1.15-20, John 1.1-14 Preacher Canon Robert Titley Two airborne royal stories this week. First, the Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner claimed that the deployment of William and his Air Sea Rescue helicopter unit to the Falklands is a … Continue reading →

Readings Numbers 13 Philippians 2.12–28 Preacher Canon Robert Titley Two different worlds in our readings tonight. First, the book of Numbers, a boring name for a red-blooded tale. It shows the Israelites as the new kids on the regional block, … Continue reading →

Readings  Haggai 2.1-9, John 2.13-22 Preacher Canon Robert Titley Candlemas, the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, which we celebrated this morning, brings a last look back at Christmas and marks the end of Epiphany, that season of unwrapping the … Continue reading →

Reading Luke 2.22-40 Preacher The Revd Jane Speck, Chaplain, King’s College London So, next Thursday – the 2nd February – marks forty days since Christmas. forty is that wonderful number used in the Bible usually to mean ‘a lot’: the … Continue reading →

 Readings Genesis 14.17–20, Revelation 19.6–10 John 2.1–11 Preacher Canon Robert Titley What does ‘glory’ mean to you? Think of a glorious morning, Vivaldi’s Gloria, or Danny Blanchflower, Spurs and Northern Ireland legend, on football – The great fallacy is that the game … Continue reading →

Readings Isaiah 60.9–end, Hebrews 6.17—7.10 Preacher Canon Robert Titley   ‘Epiphany’, we noted last week, means ‘showing’, making manifest, but the three stories at the heart of the Epiphany season do not make God as manifest as all that: only the wise … Continue reading →

Preacher: Ruth Martin Readings: 1 Samuel 3-10, John 1 v43 to end May what we think, feel and say always be acceptable to you Oh Lord Can anything Good come out of Nazareth? I was in Leeds last autumn in … Continue reading →