Sermons
Autumn Sermons & Prayers: Lord of The Feast
In our age of plenty we find it difficult to understand the contrast between the feast and the routine. The celebration in Nehemiah is a liberation party of the theological imagination. To restore feasting we must do a little fasting.
Added: 18th November 2007
A distinction needs to be drawn between Christian art and the Christian view of art. Attitudes to art largely reflect attitudes towards the relationship between the divine and human: one model portrays humanity as 'inferior' to God whereas the other considers this to be a category error bordering on idolatry and looks at incarnational humanity as fundamentally creative. Although much art is necessarily concerned with love and death, a large corpus deals with suffering; and for this reason we should occasionally rejoice.
Added: 24th October 2008
Words change their meaning through time (Vico) and those who do not accept this need to say when changes of meaning ceased. Reform and Mainstream are apparently rigid about meaning but question the Biblical meaning of church authority.
Year C, The Third Sunday of Epiphany; Added: 25th January 2007