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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2023/01/01

History. What is it good for?

No matter what some students might think, history was not invented to make middle and high school students crazy. It was George Santayana who said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This is sometimes rendered as “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” No matter […]

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2018/12/30

The gift of Christmas

 I often spend quite a lot of time on sermon titles. They are frequently questions, which I then endeavour to answer in the sermon, and if they aren’t questions they almost always provide direction for me. Every now and then I am very pleased with a sermon title; this Sunday has such a title. We […]

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2016/12/18

Joseph in a different light

So why would I preach about Joseph, the putative father of Jesus, on this, the fourth Sunday of Advent; the Sunday of Love? There are a lot of reasons I suppose, not least of which is our Gospel lesson. This passage in Matthew is one of the very few places we get a look at […]

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