This post is the text of a sermon on the Beatitudes and Science, preached at St Paul’s, Wokingham, 20th May 2018. The Bible readings on which it is based are Job 38.4-7 & 12-18 and Matthew 5.1-10. When I was first asked if I would come and give a sermon about science as […]
Believing in both God and science
This blog post is the text of a sermon that I gave on the 2nd Sunday of Lent 2018 in the parishes of Benson and Ewelme in Oxfordshire, UK. The Bible readings for the day were Romans 4.13-end and Mark 8.31-end. Who are you going to trust? This is a question that gets asked […]
How do we use the gift of science?
The following is a sermon that I preached on 19th November 2017 at St Mary -le-More Church, Wallingford. The readings on which the sermon is based are Zephaniah 1.7,12-18, 1 Thessalonians 5.1-11, and Matthew 25.14-30. It is, of course, very easy to ‘spiritualise’ these readings – to see them as a warning that we […]