Category: ‘Sermon’ like material

  • Lle Gorffwys – a resting place

    Lle Gorffwys – a resting place

    I have for some time given worth to the idea of a shared common task.  A task other than maintaining a building or a pattern of worship as these things ought to serve the central task rather than the other way around.  Be that common task a community project, or supporting a local charity or…

  • Fourth Person of the Trinity

    Fourth Person of the Trinity

    I want to introduce you to the fourth person of the trinity.  Unlike Douglas Adams, who we forgive for the subtitle of his fifth book of three ‘the increasingly inaccurately titled “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy”’, there is some difficulty in adding to the Holy Trinity, one might assume, however, as A.A. Milne should…

  • Let go and let God

    Let go and let God

    When I was licensed here, I was licensed as Priest in Charge in these parishes.  It is a technical, but important distinction.  I am not the incumbent, though for all practical purposes I am treated by the Diocese and constitution as such.  However,  I find it rather a liberating position.  Though at any moment, if…

  • Disaster, Death and Re-Creation

    Disaster, Death and Re-Creation

    There are a myriad of disaster movies that exist of extinction events of cataclysmic proportions.  Events on earth to wipe out or nearly wipe out humanity.  There is an even greater list of movies that talk of a new beginning – After some apocalypse or other.  Why are some so obsessed in the arts with…

  • One EASTER Day

    One EASTER Day

    During Lent I’ve been reflecting each week on the film One Day.  It is a story about love, life, death and resurrection.  It doesn’t describes specifically the events of our Easter story at all – however, it does give us a window into the ebb and flow of two ordinary lives lived in and out…

  • One Day won't last forever

    One Day won't last forever

    Passion Sunday for me is about being uncomfortable in a comfortable place.  A bolt hole, a place of refuge, a place to go before a difficult encounter.  A favourite cafe.  A bench on a hill.  A place with friends where one can be natural, uninhibited, perhaps.  A place to relax and let the hair down. …

  • Healing the Hunger Games

    Healing the Hunger Games

    For the Conwy County Civic Service 2016. Around ten years ago I was in Liverpool for Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter Sunday. We visited the Anglican Cathedral, took the tour, climbed the tower and looked back towards Wales. I remember a conversation after lunch with a good friend, John, a priest working…

  • One Day in the life of a Fig Tree

    One Day in the life of a Fig Tree

    I have in my garden, not a fig tree, but an Autumn Olive tree (elaeagnus umbellata)   It is a hardy specimen, good for creating wind breaks and a nitrogen fixer so it is a team player in the garden, but perhaps not quite so hardy as the welsh climate requires given that we regularly have…

  • One Day – in the City

    One Day – in the City

    So if the wilderness doesn’t get you, perhaps that fox in the city will.  In the reading from Luke today Jesus compares Herod to a fox and the people of Jerusalem as a hen’s brood – Jesus of course is the would be mother hen, protecting the people, but they reject him!  I’ve been slowly…

  • One Day in the wilderness

    One Day in the wilderness

    And so begins the long dark teatime of the soul – or Lent as we call it.  To counter the drab feelings that this season can throw up, I like to indulge in a book.  You’ve been offered a number of worthy titles already, however, the title I’d like to reflect on for Lent would…