The Third Sunday before Lent
Last Sunday 20 year old Sudesh Amman stabbed two members of the general public on the Streatham High Road. Minutes later he was shot dead by police.
The Second Sunday of Epiphany
In one of Woody Allen’s stand-up comedy routines from the sixties, he said, ‘Years ago, my mother gave me a bullet.
The Second Sunday of Advent
I wonder what your favourite film of all time is? One of the top of my list would have to be Ken Loach’s Kes.
The First Sunday of Advent
It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming…Football’s coming home
The Ninth Sunday after Trinity
‘Boris Johnson must peddle Brexit optimism “as if he were a steroid-boosted cyclist trying to win the Tour de France” between now and October 31, key Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has argued’. ‘Johnson’s promise to prove “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters” wrong, and his claim that “no one in the last few centuries has succeeded in betting against the pluck and nerve and ambition of this country”, is in exactly that vein’.
The Fifth Sunday of Lent
I once was invited to address an annual meeting of a regional religious society. That meant before I got up to speak there was half an hour of the legal business of the organisation to sit through. The chair received the secretary’s report; and once it had been digested, the chair said, ‘I need to tell you that our secretary has decided that it is time to stand down, and that, after 8 years of loyal service, we shall be needing to look for a successor. Are there any nominations?’ There were none.
Epiphany Sunday
The poet Mary Oliver’s ‘Instructions for living a life’ from her poem Sometimes, will, I think, help to shape our reflections about this feast of the Epiphany which we celebrate today. In a line from that poem, she says: “Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
