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Wilderness and the Garden: Sermon Preached on 31st March 2024 (Easter Day)

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Gerry Lynch

Since the invasion of Ukraine, we have entered a geopolitical wilderness. Resurrection only follows the wilderness in the story of Jesus. Continue reading →

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Christianity is Strange (Easter Day 2023)

Posted on April 9, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

The Resurrection could be a fiction by people in denial: but then we’d expect more consistency, not the Gospels’ authenticity of roughness Continue reading →

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Why the Talking Snake Matters: Sermon Preached on Saturday 8th April 2023 (Easter Vigil)

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

The Garden of Eden is a myth about what humans were before we had the capacity to exterminate other forms of life at our convenience Continue reading →

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The Gardener of Life: Sermon Preached at St Mary’s, Potterne, Sunday 17th April 2022 (Easter Day)

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

Resurrection is no mere conjuring trick with bones; it’s vastly greater. Continue reading →

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New Life After A Sojourn in the Wilderness

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Gerry Lynch

This article first appeared in the March 2021 edition of the parish magazine of St John with St Mary, Devizes. Although summer remains far away and we could yet be overtaken by a genuinely cold snap or even snow, the … Continue reading →

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