Sunday 27 July 2025Liverpool Cathedral Coming Home: A Service Marking Liverpool Pride Luke 15.11-32 I brought a little friend—hope you don’t mind. [The friend is a cuddly toy ET.] Now, when I preach to a new crowd, I like to give them a little test. So here’s a question for you: What’s ET short for? […]
Sermon preached at St Margaret of Antioch, Toxteth, 27 July 2025 Luke 11.1-13 If you don’t ask, you don’t get. When I was five, I had no real idea of the value of anything, and certainly not money. We’d just moved into my grandmother’s house in Prescot, all the way from across the ocean in
Please consider yourself warmly welcome to the Lady Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral this Sunday, 27 July, at 6.30pm, for a reflective service on the occasion of Liverpool Pride. I’m delighted to have been invited as guest preacher, and I will be speaking on the theme ‘Coming Home.’ The service is jointly organised by the cathedral
In 2019, my mother died, and I chose two contrasting but complementary readings of poetry for her funeral (read by my now-also-departed friend Fr Jeff Engel). The first was Nothing Gold Can Stay, by Robert Frost: Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides
