Sermons
Easter 2
Sunday, 7 April 2024
John Conway, Provost
The move into faith is about finding our scepticism overcome not by answers or proofs (there are none), but by the eternal life of God and the gift of the Holy Spirit that catches us up; by the surprise of resurrection joy, and by allowing ourselves to be caught up and for that reality to shape us.
Lent 5
Sunday, 17 March 2024
Marion Chatterley, Vice Provost
One of the functions of a place like this is that we hold within our space the tension between death and resurrection, the dynamic between the stark reality of death and the promise of new life in Christ.
Lent 4
Sunday, 10 March 2024
John Conway, Provost
Our healing is not found in identifying the scapegoat, but in allowing the scapegoat to judge us. In the crucified Christ, we find our sense of self undone so that it might be rebuilt on God’s grace, God’s love. The love that gives of itself in order that others might have life.
Lent 3
Sunday, 3 March 2024
Esther Elliott, Lay Reader
The story in front of us is one of very few where Jesus gets angry, ugly angry. The sort of anger that has an edge of being out of control. The sort of anger that to witness it, even, I would suggest, simply by reading about it, gets the old fight or flight nerves jangling. .... So, it’s really odd that the disciples in the story itself aren’t responding in this way. Instead, both times they are mentioned they are “remembering”.
Lent 2
Sunday, 25 February 2024
Revd Janet Spence, Chaplain
‘Take up your cross and follow me’
Lent 1
Sunday, 18 February 2024
Rev Professor Paul Foster
Surely in the twenty-first century Lent is irrelevant. .... Humans need to learn to live in a mode of flourishing existence, not with acts of self-imposed abstinence, nor severe penitence, discipline, and mental self-flagellation.
Sunday before Lent
Sunday, 11 February 2024
John Conway, the Provost
With you is the well of life; and in your light, we see light.
Epiphany 5
Sunday, 4 February 2024
Marion Chatterley, Vice Provost
The almost inevitable result of making poor choices, the impact of turning away from God, causes unspeakable harm both to innocent people and to guilty people.
Epiphany 4
Sunday, 28 January 2024
John Conway, Provost
How might we share in, relate to, the urgency we find in Jesus, particularly in the Gospel of Mark?
Epiphany
Sunday, 7 January 2024
Prof. Paul Foster
The story of the magi transcend simple black-and-white binaries.
Christmas 1
Sunday, 31 December 2023
John Conway, Provost
To pray the Nunc Dimittis is to recognise for ourselves those moments when ... God simply is; when the wrestling and the waiting and the searching is over, and we know, we know that God is, that God is for us, that God loves us.