This time of year, Kingdom Season, includes a lot of Sunday readings on the End of Days, Judgement Day, the Coming of the Lord... Too often these texts have been abused to scare people, swindle them out of their money and/or preserve an unfair social, political and economic status quo. Here's my...

Last Pentecost weekend a friend and I attended a Baptism service in a Lutheran parish in London. Afterwards my friend, of RCC background, whispered: "There was a lot of devil and evil in that."   Now, our baptismal liturgies do mention the devil several times, and it does make a lot of people,...

Part of my training involves preparing and delivering sermons; to give you an idea of my 'preaching style' I thought I'd put one up here (comments always welcome):   Sermon-for the service on the 3rd Sunday of Easter (@Saint Michael-in-the-City, Liverpool, 21st April 2013) [Acts 9:36-43, Jn....

The Lord be with you… and also with you. (light the candle) Christ who is the Light of the World, guide your thoughts and actions, and lighten you with love and warmth, that you may be a community of peace and acceptance, of grace and faith. May you be as a city on a hill, a light shining for those...

The old saying goes: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church”. I don’t know about you, but when I see and hear Christians in the West beating their chests pretending to be martyrs, and claiming that they’re “being persecuted”, quite frankly it makes me upset and angry, quite frankly it...

As heirs of the Reformation period, we know about the importance of the Bible and the slogan ‘Scripture Alone’ in our branch of Christianity. But what do the Scriptures mean to us today? Are they still relevant? Do we read them or only hear from them at church? The Bible is still the most...

That would be a likely response in Flanders, even when denoting myself more generally as 'Protestant'. Protestantism to most, though admittedly a dwindling majority, is a 'foreign' religion, often German, mostly Dutch, or sometimes even those crazy people in America who talk funny about sex and...