2nd November 2025 Last week, I was in Wittenberg for the LCMS’ International Church Relations Conference. I have been to Wittenberg before. Most of our worship services were in St Mary’s (the town church) but one service was held at All Saint’s Church (the castle…
I grew up with a sense that being a Lutheran meant that I subscribed and agreed to what the Lutheran Church taught was the Christian Faith. I like to think – and still do – that I’m not blind or naïve about these teachings…
The headlines have been blaring out economic forecasts about the future based on decisions made now and in the recent past. As with the pandemic it is not so much that we are in the same boat but the same storm because the economic…
I was challenged this week, through the work of political philosopher Hannah Arendt, to con- sider hope as something that is negative to people because it is a fundamentally passive thing where one looks to the future for some sort of help and renders…
What songs should we sing at funerals? What lyrics capture best the situation of the dead and those grieving? Music and song so powerfully ‘reach’ us that, I imagine, they have always had a place in dealing with death – chords and concepts carry…
Sitting in Westminster Abbey for the 500th anniversary service of the Reformation I was close to the lectern on my right and could see the dignitaries next to the pulpit but to see the altar I needed to look at a monitor to my…
As part of the follow-up from my trip to Israel and Palestine last April, I met yesterday at Cov-entry Cathedral with my fellow travellers. We are definitely an ecumenical group (I did say that it was nice that we were all together on the…
In writing the sermon I thought of the idea that we are not isolated, independent. (No man is an island …) So I went hunting and found this meditation by John Donne who wrote it when ill. Perchance he for whom this bell tolls…
