dawn138Dec 21, 20211 minTransgendering GodSalvator Mundi, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1499-1510 'The language of God as creator is a reflection God’s own gender diversity. The logos is...
dawn138Dec 19, 20211 minGod's Midwives"The significance of God bringing life where it has no right to be, is that God does this, not us. What if we aren’t ‘God’s fixers’ after...
dawn138Nov 29, 20211 minThe Gift of Hope - A Sermon for Advent 1, 2020"As we work for the welfare of the city to which we have been sent in exile, we discover the capacity to love, to hope, and to embody...
dawn138Nov 23, 20211 minAn Incompetent Messiah?'In Christ God draws alongside us; in Jesus God moves into our neighbourhood, meeting us in our failure, our sin, and our incompetence;...
dawn138Dec 27, 20201 minThe Hope of New Life - Christmas Day Sermon 2020"For all the familiarity we have with the Nativity story, a lot of people miss an aspect of its significance that gives us hope in our...
dawn138Dec 13, 20208 minLight in the DarknessIsaiah 9.6-7; 61.1-11 Listen to this sermon here: https://soundcloud.com/bloomsbury-1/light-in-the-darkness This week, we are bringing to...
dawn138Dec 6, 20201 minHope in the Face of Despair'As we await the birth of Christ, the coming God to humanity, we wait in solidarity with exiles, in unity with those who suffer and...
dawn138Nov 29, 20201 minResistance is Never Futile"The ideologies of consumerism and militarism are insidious, violent, and all-embracing; and we are called to resist, to live out in our...
dawn138Nov 18, 20201 minIs a Virgin Birth Inconceivable?"We are invited to allow Mary to interpret the significance of her own child to us, rather than simply allowing the voices of men to...
dawn138Nov 13, 20201 minBig Queer Carols, Sermon, 2017A sermon by Andy Fitchet, for the Big Queer Carol Service 2017
dawn138Dec 30, 20191 minA Missing Nativity"The wild beasts and angels in the wilderness with Jesus and Satan give us an insight into the nature of Jesus’ ministry as it will...
dawn138Dec 22, 20191 minFrom Priesthood to ProphecyDomenico Ghirlandaio's fresco Zechariah Writes Down the Name of His Son (1490, fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel, Florence) "The move from...
dawn138Dec 16, 20191 minBypassing HerodAt our Carol Celebration on Friday (the day the election result was announced) Simon gave a short sermon on Herod: "We, too, live in a...
dawn138Dec 8, 20191 minA Right Jeremiah!“Within the Christian story, the hope of Jeremiah and Isaiah is fulfilled in Jesus, who embodies God’s righteousness and justice,...
dawn138Dec 7, 20191 minThe World Turned Upside Down"The comfort proclaimed by Isaiah to the exiles in Babylon was no shallow Pollyanna-ish message of hope. Rather, it was a comfort based...
Simon WoodmanDec 14, 20181 minListening to the womenRevd Dr Simon Woodman, preaching at the Bloomsbury Carol Celebration 2018 "Mary, the teenage mother, gives voice to a dream of social...
dawn138Dec 9, 20181 minThe Massacre of the Innocents"Matthew places God in his story in the person of the baby Jesus, a human at risk, on the run, helpless, innocent. This is deep theology,...
Simon WoodmanJan 11, 20181 minThe Way of Wisdom“There are few things I find more distressing than a Christian who believes they have only knowledge left to learn. You know the kind of...
dawn138Dec 31, 20171 min‘Look up, and pay attention!’"All of us who identify as people of faith - whatever faith group we belong to - encounter a system within society that tries to make us...
dawn138Dec 25, 20176 min'Full of Grace and Truth' - Christmas Day Sermon 2017John 1:14-17 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of...