Sermons

Finding meaning in the circle of the seasons

An address for Harvest Festival We have just sung We Plough the Fields and Scatter, one of those great traditional Harvest hymns, full of gratitude for abundance, and rightly so. I feel the contrast with the story of Ruth. I really felt it when Naomi arrived back in Bethlehem and says, “I went away full,…

All Available Boats

An Address reflecting on 25 years since 9/11 Let’s start with poor Job… By the time Job’s friends arrive, almost everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. His animals have been stolen or destroyed. His servants have been killed. His children have died when the house they are in collapses. Then Job himself becomes…

Tending the Shared Light

An Address for the East Anglian Women’s Group Service, 12th July 2026 I fell in love with my husband while we watched a murmuration of starlings above Brighton Pier. The birds moved as though the sky itself had become alive: hundreds of separate creatures, each one entirely itself, forming a single changing body that no…