I’ve been preaching for over fifty years, but I’ve only been interrupted once. It was in Port Antonio, a Jamaican port that had once been a hub of the slave trade. ‘What about slavery?’ a lady shouted from the back of the church. I was lost for words and continued my sermon, which was about […]
St Paul is a very special Saint. He is so special that he doesn’t actually get a day for himself in the calendar of Saints. He has to share one with his great fellow saint St Peter, with whom he not always got on well during his lifetime, and that is putting it mildly, they […]
THE WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY: 18-25 JANUARY 2026 To my surprise and delight, over coffee after a morning service at St Stephen’s, I found myself in a group discussion with Christians from different denominations. We were members of the Romanian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist Churches, with a Quaker School former pupil. […]
Christ’s Baptism Everything mentioned in all four gospels about the Baptism of Christ and surrounding events is captured in this fresco from the Sistine chapel by Pietro Perugino (1446 – 1523): the dove descending on Jesus, the many people coming to be baptised by John, the strangely dressed and hesitating John the Baptist, even […]
The Epiphany of our Lord The Epiphany, or the Manifestation of Christ, has been celebrated in the Christian tradition in a variety of ways. The Feast of the Epiphany on January 6 completes the ‘twelve days of Christmas’ and it inaugurates a period where the declaration of the arrival and manifestation of our saviour in […]
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