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Category Archives: Lent
A Lenten Discipline for 2026
In these forty days from Ash Wednesday to Easter we are invited “to observe a holy Lent by self-examination, penitence, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, and by reading and meditating on the word of God.” As part of my Lenten discipline … Continue reading
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Tagged Lenten Discipline, Some topics in theology, Systematic Theology, Systematics, Theology
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Pontius Pilate: A Monologue
A sermon preached on Good Friday, 29 March 2024, at the Anglican Church of St Thomas, Kefalas, Crete The readings were: Isaiah 52:13-53:12 (the Fourth Servant Song); Psalm 22; and John 18:1-19:42 (the Passion according to St John). Centurion: what … Continue reading
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“For God so loved the world . . .”
A Sermon Preached on The Fourth Sunday of Lent(following the Julian Calendar used to calculate Easter in Greece)April 11, 2021, at 11:00 amfor an Online Service with The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete. The readings were: … Continue reading
The Foolishness of the Commandments
A Sermon Preached on The Third Sunday of Lent (following the Julian Calendar used to calculate Easter in Greece)April 4, 2021, at 11:00 amfor an Online Service with The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete. The readings … Continue reading
An Unsettling Lent
A Sermon Preached on The First Sunday of LentMarch 21, 2021 at 11:00 amfor an Online Service with The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete. The readings used were: Genesis 9:8-17, Psalm 25:1-9, 1 Peter 3:18-22, and … Continue reading
Resources for Mothering Sunday 2021
These are worship resources for Mothering Sunday 2021, held on the Fourth Sunday of Lent. The resources are gathered from a variety of sources and, while assembled mainly for The Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, on the … Continue reading
Resources for the Second Sunday of Lent
These are worship resources for The Second Sunday of Lent, 2021. The resources are gathered from a variety of sources and, while assembled mainly for The Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, on the island of Crete in … Continue reading
Resources for Worship on the First Sunday of Lent
These are worship resources for The First Sunday of Lent, 2021. The resources are gathered from a variety of sources and, while assembled mainly for The Anglican Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, on the island of Crete in … Continue reading
Descendit ad Inferos: Reflecting with Balthasar on Holy Saturday and Jesus’s Descent to the Dead
This is from a first version of my PhD dissertation, which was submitted for examination last year. The examiners requested a major revision, and specifically said I could do without the chapter on the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von … Continue reading
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Tagged Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar, He Descended Into Hell, Holy Saturday, The Burial of Jesus Christ
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Dying With Us: A Sermon For Good Friday 2020
Struggling With The Theology of Atonement I have been struggling with the cross of Jesus for over thirty years. I have accepted the Resurrection. The radical idea that God did not abandon Jesus, but raised him from the dead, … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Liberation Theology, Good Friday, James Cone, Theologies of Atonement
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The Island Parson 