Sermon preached at St Margaret of Antioch, Toxteth, 12 October 2025 2 Kings 5.1-3,7-15c2 Timothy 2.8-15Luke 17.11-19 Do you ever wonder about those little characters that make passing cameos in films and in books and in stories that are never named? You’re watching or listening or reading, and you think, Hang on—go back a minute. […]
Sermon preached at St Margaret of Antioch, Toxteth, 10 August 2025 Luke 12.32-40 Last week, our preacher spoke to us about Jesus’ parable of the rich man who, content with the wealth he had stored up for himself, sat back to ‘relax, eat, drink and be merry,’ only to be caught off-guard by death itself.
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
Monks, friars and nuns are not seen so much on the streets these days, and you may be among those who have seen me wandering Prescot, Whiston, Speke and now, in my new post, central Liverpool and Toxteth. Elegant as my habit is, it is not first and foremost a fashion choice. It is a
Sermon preached at St Margaret of Antioch, Toxteth, 29 June 2025 The one-time incumbent of my sending parish of Prescot used to say that you could preach all the heresy you liked as long as you kept it under eight minutes. I’m advised the limit of your tolerance here is ten minutes, so I am
