Lest We Turn Up in the Wrong Colours
The golden calf, a guest in the wrong clothes, and the question fear never wants asked: whose dead am I forbidden to grieve?
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Free Fish That Cost the Earth
Hope amid climate collapse and social collapse: the Ten Commandments as a guide for wilderness living, free of longing for an empire that was killing the earth.
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Take Some Elders With You
Thirsty, frightened, and ready to blame their leader: God’s answer is not just water from the rock, but elders to walk alongside the people, and alongside us.
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Why are you standing idle?
A parable about unemployed day labourers becomes a case for training up ordinary people for ministry — without burning out the ones who already show up.
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Twenty-Five Years at the Water’s Edge
Twenty-five years on from 9/11, still trapped between an angry sea and old enemies, and still asked to accept a mercy that plays no favourites.
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Will We Be Safe in the Morning?
When grief and loss make no sense, scripture’s oldest protest offers not answers, but a God who weeps beside us.
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The Cracked Window
On the first Feast of Creation, this sermon asks whether a wounded world might still be a window into the grieving heart of God.
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God Forbid It: A Manifesto for a Collapsing World
Peter begged Jesus to avoid the coming disaster. Paul offers something braver: how to live with love, courage and beauty when there’s no escape.
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The Comfort of Someone Else’s Guilt
A footballers’ scandal, a call to sober judgment, and an uncomfortable question: how much of this culture do we all help sustain?
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The Trouble with Kindred
Kindred is beautiful – and it always draws a line (usually without realising). A sermon on Joseph, Jesus, and grace beyond the boundary.
