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I Do What I Hate: Sermon Preached on 9th July 2023 (5th Sunday After Trinity)

Posted on July 9, 2023 by Gerry Lynch

It is human nature to seek to progress. But is the gap between our technological power and our wisdom widening? Continue reading →

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War and the Devil: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 6th March 2022 (The First Sunday in Lent)

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Gerry Lynch

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist: what has this to do with Kevin Spacey and Ukraine? Continue reading →

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Weird Travel: The German Soldiers Commemorated in A Country Where They Committed a Genocide

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Gerry Lynch

Swakopmund always feels a little odd, like a piece of Germany somehow teleported into Namibia’s remote and thinly populated Atlantic Coast. Even in that context, the presence of the Marinedenkmal in the centre of town feels utterly weird. The statue … Continue reading →

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St Pancratius, ‘s-Heerenberg, and the ‘Gestapo Window’

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Gerry Lynch

St Pancratius (de Pancratiuskerk) in the little Dutch market town of ‘s-Heerenberg (population 8,000) and literally a ten minute stroll from the German border. At first blush – another pretty, ornate, but unexceptional post-Vatican I church in the south eastern … Continue reading →

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What Is A Man? The Question Asked by a Memorial to Forgotten Wars

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Gerry Lynch

The memorial to the fallen of the 1860s Wars of German Unification in the Rheinpark in Emmerich (Kriegerdenkmal, Emmerich). Emmerich is a sleepy little river port on the Rhine, literally within a casual afternoon stroll of the Dutch border.   Completed … Continue reading →

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