Sermons

The Alice Sermon 2015

Preached at Sandford Church on Pentecost by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington. On this day in 1864 a certain Charles Dodgson, known to many of us as the author Lewis Carroll, walked out from Oxford to Sandford church to preach at…

Home is where the heart is

Preached at All Saints’ Cuddesdon on Sunday 17th May 2015 by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington. Readings: Acts 1:15-17, 21-end and John 17: 6-19. There is a lovely scene in the recent film adaption of the Michael Bond Paddington Bear books,…

Abide in me

Preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at St Mary’s Garsington on 10th May 2015. Amidst all the excitement of the election, it nearly passed me by that Friday was the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War,…

Describing the indescribable

First preached at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 12.2.12 by Rev. Dr Jonathan Arnold Garsington and Horspath Churches, 8th February 2015 On 30 June in 1860, Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, known as ‘soapy Sam’ because of Benjamin Disraeli’s description of his…