Millennials, those people aged from their late teens to their mid thirties, are “the least likely to be religious“. Furthermore, a United Kingdom poll is probably typical in finding ‘41% thought religion was “the cause of evil” in the world more often than good.’ A recent blog post by Sam Eaton gave 12 Reasons Millennials
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On Sunday it was the 25th anniversary of my ordination as priest, and the local parish, St Michael and All Angels, invited me to preside and preach. The Priest in Charge (Canon Craufurd Murray – the vicar is away on Study Leave) was the one who presented me 25 years ago, and was my training
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Recently I pointed to someone else’s blog post, The Reasons for Silence. There is a lot of interest in this – about 9,000 people read my post. The response of a friend of mine was to point to Paul Tillich’s sermon, Loneliness and Solitude (link is to a pdf). I encourage you to look past
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Almighty God, who has gotta ‘catch us all’, within the great Pokeball of your love. Give us the power that’s inside, so that we might not divert our eyes from the game map that you have set, but instead, with Clefairy, Charmander and that electrocuted yellow rat thing, come to the great PokeGym in the
We, who preach, can learn from great public speakers. I regularly watch clips of Barack Obama – he, I think, is a great public speaker. He clearly draws on the great African-American preaching tradition. A friend recently sent me an article on What can Donald Trump teach us about preaching? Analysis of the way Donald
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A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the pastor decided to visit him. It was a chilly evening. The pastor found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his pastor’s visit, the man welcomed him, led
I was delighted to hear The Very Rev. Richard Giles (left, image above) preach, and generously be invited to have lunch with him. Several of his books are on my shelves: Re-Pitching the Tent: Re-Ordering the Church Building for Worship and Mission is the one I would recommend most. It is about how to re-order
I still hear people (all the way to bishops) use the word “vocation” as shorthand for a call to priesthood (or possibly “Religious Life”). Marriage is a vocation. [For some, singleness is a vocation; for some celibacy; for many, I hope that their job is a vocation…] How much energy does the church put into
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