Preached at St Gile’s Horspath on 14th June 2015 by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington. Readings: 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 and Mark 4:26-34. A question: what is the kingdom of God? In our readings this morning we are presented with two,…
Embarrassing Moments
Preached at the Benefice Service in St Mary’s Garsington on 7th June by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington. I wonder if you have ever been embarrassed by a member of your family. I’m sure that if I haven’t done so already,…
Trinity – the community of love
Preached on Trinity Sunday 2015 by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at St Mary’s Garsington. It is not unknown, when telling someone that you are preaching on Trinity Sunday to be greeted with the words, ‘Oh dear, the hardest day of…
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,…
Call to Silence
Preached at All Saint’s Cuddesdon on 22nd March by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington. Last week I went to hear Jonathan sing Christus in the first part of Arvo Pärt’s St John Passion cycle. It took place in Queen’s college and…
Learning to breathe underwater
Preached at the Benefice service by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington on 1st March 2015. In her book Sharing the Darkness, the palliative care doctor, Shelia Cassidy, includes a poem which she always kept in her white doctor’s coat in the…
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…
Works of Mercy: Burying the Dead
Preached by Rev’d Dr Emma Pennington at Worcester College Chapel on 8th February 2015. Thank you very much to the Chaplain for his warm welcome. It is always a pleasure to return to this, probably the most visually stunning Chapel…