Let us look at the beginning of the gospel for today because it seems as good a place as any to begin: Matthew shows Jesus journeying as...

It’s a problem for us, I think, when we consider who is ‘like’ us. We worship here in St Stephen’s as millions do in their churches...

Sometimes people like to say that the Assumption of Mary is ‘not in the Bible’ and we have to accept that scriptural references are...

The Transfiguration is a mystery wrapped in light, and the light has sometimes made it hard to understand, hard to grasp, like chasing a...

On the face of it, this morning we hear about the reception of ‘stuff’- Solomon is offered ‘stuff’ and chooses Wisdom above all else –...

I used to live in Germany, in the Rhineland Pfalz, of the Pfalz for short. It’s a little known and quite magical place, set between the...

Over the next few weeks we will hear some of the parables of Jesus. They’re lively, punchy stories and they stick in your mind, and...

I wonder if sometimes, as I do, you read the news online and think that maybe a sense of perspective would be useful? Issues of equality,...

There are things that we do in the darkness or in secret and often for very good reason. Obvious examples might include having a shower –...

In the reading today, he sends out his twelve closest friends, his inner group of disciples, on mission. He sees them as the new ‘twelve...