It might not feel it, this beautiful morning in the beautiful season of Easter, but in the Gospel it is a dark night, and the darkest of...

This Sunday we call ‘Good Shepherd Sunday’ and for good reason, but it is also sometimes reduced to a plea for clerical vocations, which...

The setting is familiar, the Sea of Galilee, a place that echoes with memories of the disciples’ first call. Yet now, they are in a very...

Have you ever been asked to do something that you felt eminently unqualified to do? Maybe a step up in a job or a massive project upon...

Every year I write a plethora of sermons for Holy Week. I had one or two less to write this year, thanks to Fr Clive, but it’s still a...

Today we start again to tell the story of a week which changed the world so much that we still have to almost act it out every year in...

Today in the gospel we hear about standing together and showing solidarity, even when it might be costly to us, and that we can answer...

Today, on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, known as Laetare  Sunday, the sombre purple of Lent softens into rose. Thinking what to say today, I...

So many things are done to us to make us think one way or another way. Headlines in newspapers, particularly online, often bear little...

I remember visiting the former East Germany when I was a lot younger, the cobbled motorways, the strange food, particularly dishes based...