My latest interviewee is Peter Mead and, as ever, it was refreshing and inspiring to chat with him about preaching. You can find other interviews in this series here and here
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I have often been asked to share, step by step, how I go about preparing to preach and thought now would be a good time to do something about it. I am just beginning to prepare a new series of sermons and so I thought I would walk you through how I am going about…
Behind the high altar of St Peter’s Cathedral in Cologne is what is reputed to be the largest reliquary, or container of religious relics, in the western world, and inside are the supposed remains of the Magi whose story is told in Matthew 2. The story goes that when the remains of the men were…
In my last post I somewhat took apart the traditional understanding of the place where Jesus was born, showing by the application of good hermeneutical principles that it certainly wasn’t in an inn. In the next few posts I am going to turn our attention to The Enigma of the Magi, those mysterious visitors from…
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I remember the first dramatic presentation of the nativity I ever saw. It was somewhere in Calcutta, India, I believe, shortly before I, then aged 12, and my family returned to the UK. It had all the usual cast of characters, but the one I remember best was the surly, uncaring inn keeper who rudely…
