God lays aside his Glory
I was last in Bethlehem in November 1999. It was a very exciting time to be there. I had visited m...
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Fr John Slater| 28/12/2003
Earth is joined to Heaven
London is quiet today. Right up until yesterday evening Oxford Street was crowded, the stores packe...
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Fr John Slater| 25/12/2003
The Mother of the Lord
The Prayer Book devotes the last two Sundays in Advent to John the Baptist - the Forerunner who an...
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Fr John Slater| 21/12/2003
When Messiah Comes
I wonder what a twenty-first century John the Baptist would look like. He’s not a figure who fits c...
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Fr John Slater | 14/12/2003
These Lesser Calvaries
Yesterday I was at work, teaching Christ to lift his cross. I inspected his feet to see that they s...
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Fr John Slater| 09/11/2003
The Road to Holiness
Today we celebrate the saints, known and unknown, famous and obscure, great and small. Perhaps we t...
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Fr John Slater| 02/11/2003
A Way of Life
In today’s Gospel reading, a lawyer asks Jesus, Which is the great commandment in the Law? Jesus re...
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Fr John Slater| 19/10/2003
The Unity of the Spirit
As many of you will be aware, on Wednesday of this coming week our archbishop has a meeting with the...
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Fr John Slater| 12/10/2003
Body and Soul
He was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow - what a very poignant comment on that scen...
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Fr John Slater| 05/10/2003
The Good Samaritan
I mentioned to you recently my sabbatical in the Holy Land in 1991. The staff of St George’s Colleg...
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Fr John Slater | 14/09/2003
The Spirit gives Life
I spoke last Sunday about St Paul and his conversion to Christian faith from a background as a schol...
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Fr John Slater | 07/09/2003
The New People of God
I read Theology in Cambridge in the late nineteen-sixties. At that time, the course was largely foc...
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Fr John Slater| 24/08/2003
We are all on a Journey
One of the things I really miss in coming to a church which uses the Prayer Book readings at the Euc...
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Fr John Slater| 17/08/2003
The Bread of Life
The gospels have two accounts of Jesus miraculously feeding large numbers of people and we have just...
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Fr John Slater| 03/08/2003
The Spirit of the Law
Today’s Gospel reading comes from St Matthew’s Gospel and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. If an...
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Fr John Slater| 27/07/2003
The Kingdom of God
I’ve been to Galilee half a dozen times and it’s always a very green, pleasant and restful countrysi...
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Fr John Slater| 20/07/2003
The Authority of Scripture
What a marvellous image Jesus gives us as the man with a log in his eye tries to take a speck out of...
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Fr John Slater| 13/07/2003
Lost and Found
Not so much a sermon today - more a Bible study of the two parables of Jesus in today’s Gospel rea...
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Fr John Slater| 06/07/2003
Who do you say that I am?
Today’s Gospel reading is one of the key texts of the New Testament, the turning point in the minist...
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Fr John Slater| 29/06/2003
The Body of Christ
Over the past two months we have been caught up in a long series of festivals, each of which focuses...
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Fr John Slater| 22/06/2003
Experience of God as Trinity
Today’s feast of the Trinity is very unusual because it celebrates a doctrine rather than an event. ...
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Fr John Slater| 15/06/2003
First Fruits of a New Creation
The Great Fifty Days of Easter end today with the Feast of Pentecost - and we have sung Christus vin...
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Fr John Slater| 08/06/2003
The Staff of Life is Christ
When I was a boy, Good Friday was not a public holiday in England, and Good Friday services were hel...
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Fr John Slater| 18/05/2003
The Feast of Feasts
Easter is called the Feast of Feasts. It is the principal festival of the Christian year and it is ...
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Fr John Slater| 20/04/2003
Behold the man!
Contemporary theologians tell us that simply to read the Bible is the first stage of interpretation ...
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Fr John Slater| 18/04/2003
The Second Adam
St Paul tells us, in our reading from his First Letter to the Corinthians, that he once persecuted t...
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Fr John Slater| 30/03/2003
A Time to Ask
I wonder how many English parish churches still observe the ancient Rogationtide ceremonies at this ...
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Fr John Slater| 25/03/2003
Moses and the Journey to Freedom
Moses is an appropriate focus for today’s liturgy as we welcome Friends of the Handel Festival and t...
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Fr John Slater| 23/03/2003
The Faith of Abraham
I said last week that the stories at the very beginning of the Book of Genesis - Creation, the Gar...
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Fr John Slater| 16/03/2003
Creation and Fall
It’s unfortunate that the Prayer Book gives us so very few readings from the Old Testament because i...
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Fr John Slater| 09/03/2003
The Springtime of the Church
What are you doing for Lent? If someone asks you that, you know pretty much what they are expecting...
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Fr John Slater| 02/03/2003
A Light for all Peoples
Today is the 40th day after Christmas. The Prayer Book calls the feast The Presentation of Christ i...
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Fr John Slater| 02/02/2003
A Light for all Peoples
Today is the 40th day after Christmas. The Prayer Book calls the f...
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Fr John Slater| 02/02/2003
A Just War?
There is one subject which in the present circumstances a preacher finds it difficult to avoid, and ...
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Fr John Slater| 26/01/2003
A Man for all Seasons
It was only as I walked up Ludgate Hill and heard the bells pealing that it struck me what a special...
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Fr John Slater| 25/01/2003
The Marriage Feast
Last week, I suggested that a key New Testament text is St Mark’s very succinct way of describing th...
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Fr John Slater| 19/01/2003
BBC MORNING SERVICE
Not all coronations have been orderly and celebrated with glorious music like Handels...
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Reverend Dr Wesley Carr, Dean of Westminster| 06/01/2003