Sermons

“Am I enough?”: Address for International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2026

My children had lovely first words, Mum of course, a cat noise, my younger daughter just said ‘yeah’ to everything…until she learnt the word ‘no’ of course. But my first word was more and apparently, I used this abundantly in all situations. More of everything please! I’m still like that! And I wonder if wanting…

by adamwhybray March 11, 2026

In Praise of Weeds

I’m sure I was born technophobic, and I sometimes feel a bit of a weed not being up with the technology of the twenty first century. But then what is a weed? Let’s see what Ralph Waldo Emerson had to say in a lecture given at the time when ‘cotton’ made up a great part…

by adamwhybray March 6, 2026

Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve

1. My theme today is “Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve”, so by way of introduction I’m going to read a short passage from the story of the first man and the first woman, Adam and Eve, as it appears in Genesis, the first book in the Bible: ‘The man named his wife Eve because…

by adamwhybray March 6, 2026