Epiphany IV- Mark 40-end-'Elementary, my dear Watson'. I remember hearing these words as a-small boy and being rather taken with them. What a super detective this-Sherlock Holmes must be, to analyse all those clues and come to an answer that-he consi...

29 January 2012 - St George's Chapel

A series of three sermons on 'waiting'. Each sermon interacts with a well known work of literature.

12 December 2011 - St George's Chapel

Jonathan Swift was mad. This is not an original assertion about the Dean of St Patrick's. That he was mad was a very popular opinion about Swift throughout the nineteenth century. It is in the writings of such well-known figures as Macaulay and Thack...

23 October 2011 - St Patrick's Cathedral

Genesis 50-15-21- Matthew 18-21-35If you were to ask Thomas Aquinas, the prolific medieval-theologian, what is meant by forgiveness, he might answer 'Sin is said to be-forgiven us when God is reconciled to us'.-1- If-you were to ask Wolfhart Pannenbe...

06 September 2011 - St George's Chapel

It was on 26 April 1711 that David Hume was born. By general-agreement Hume was the most important philosopher ever to write in the English-language. To mark the three-hundredth-anniversary year of his birth I offer a-couple of sermons. Last week I t...

27 July 2011 - St George's Chapel