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Cassettes, Communion, and Guardians of the Galaxy: Online Worship isn’t the Answer to Everything

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Gerry Lynch

Young people are getting back into cassettes and compilations; whatever merits it has, online worship can’t be the future of the Church, at least not on its own. Continue reading →

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Sermon Preached at St John’s Devizes on Sunday 19 July 2020, the 6th Sunday After Trinity

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Gerry Lynch

Readings – Romans 8:12–25, Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43 “…in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. Let both of them grow together until the harvest.” May I speak in the name of God, who is Father, Son, … Continue reading →

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The Case for Socialist Healthcare in One Country

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Gerry Lynch

“If China and Covid can’t shake doctrinal globalism, can anything?” My latest piece in The Critic… My friend Murat runs two tailor’s shops in the south of England. Having arrived from Turkey as a sole trader five years ago running … Continue reading →

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Beginning Public Ministry in a Liminal Time

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Gerry Lynch

Hundreds of people who should have been ending a long road to ordained ministry this week have instead been commissioned as lay ministers via videoconference. Can this experience of liminality help us serve God by helping midwife the new life he and the world seek? Continue reading →

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The Blind Eye Turned to Barrow

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Gerry Lynch

What’s not newsworthy about fascists, Islamists, grooming and death threats to journalists? My latest piece for The Critic. When we sit at an obvious hinge of history, the tendency of the press is to look in the wrong direction for … Continue reading →

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Let’s Worship Outside

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Gerry Lynch

The News Letter later asked me to turn this blog into a newspaper article which you can read here. The dreadful news that more than a hundred people were infected with coronavirus at a single, legally permitted, church service in … Continue reading →

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