A sermon preached at Saint Deiniol’s Cathedral in Bangor at the Choral Holy Eucharist of the Sixth Sunday after Trinity 2023 • Order of service Choral Holy Eucharist 16/07/2023 Choral Holy Eucharist of the Sixth Sunday after Trinity.Visit https://bangorcathedral.churchinwales.org.uk/Darllenfa/…www.youtube.com “Into the deep.” “Don’t be afraid.” “From now on.” Some 4,000 years ago, one of my Anglesey forebears died.

A talk to the Association of English Cathedrals on same-sex blessings in the context of “Living in Love & Faith” — If you haven’t been up here in Bangor, welcome to one of those western-shore places that kept Christianity going in these islands during those years after the retreat of the Roman Empire, while most of the rest of you were waiting for Augustine to turn up in whatever was left…

Prayers at Choral Evensong at Saint Deiniol’s Cathedral in Bangor on Thursday 24 February — From this evening’s Lessons: When Judah turned, the battle was in front of them and behind them. They cried out to the Holy One, and the priests blew the trumpets; and the people of Judah raised the battle shout. Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards…

Reflections on gendered language, socially contextualized imagery, one-year lectionaries and sermon series — The feast of the disciple whom Jesus loved — gentle, reflective, compassionate; the one to whom he entrusted his mother — turned out to be a good day on which to conclude listening to The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast series, about Mark Driscoll’s Seattle mega-church, which never…

Sermon preached at Evensong and a celebration of new ministries, at Saint Deiniol’s Cathedral in Bangor Order of service here; Psalms 133, 134; Isaiah 62:1–5, 10–12; John 4:1–30, 39–42 “For the Father seeks such as these. Oherwydd rhai felly y mae’r Tad yn eu ceisio.” It’s a Saturday night a few weeks ago. It’s quite late. I’m on my way back from Chester to Bangor, and…

Sermon preached on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Llandudno and St Tudno’s Church on the Great Orme, in the Ministry Area of Bro Tudno The Ministry Area’s order of service with the lections, including a poem in addition to the First Reading and the Holy Gospel, can be found here. How are you? Only a short while ago, saying “Hello. How are you?” wasn’t to ask a serious question. “I’m fine, thank you; how…

Sermon preached on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Llandudno and St Tudno’s Church on the Great Orme, in the Ministry Area of Bro Tudno The Ministry Area’s order of service with the lections, including a poem in addition to the First Reading and the Holy Gospel, can be found here. Who do you say that I am? At school, I was a lamentably bad violin player. I enjoyed learning about music, but I didn’t…

Sermon preached on the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity at Saint Deiniol’s Cathedral in Bangor Isaiah 35:4–7; Psalm:146; Mark 7:24–37 When you meet God, what do you say? Some of us here will be old enough to remember Viscount Hailsham — Home Secretary in Edward Heath’s government, a forceful personality, and eventually Lord Chancellor under Margaret Thatcher, in which capacity he acted as the presiding…

Sermon on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Llandudno and St Tudno’s Church on the Great Orme, in the Ministry Area of Bro Tudno The Ministry Area’s order of service with the lections, including a poem in addition to the First Reading and the Holy Gospel, can be found here. Words from Gwenallt’s poem: “We are lifted from the circle, above the fingers’ dictatorship”