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OPEN SOURCE SERMONS We used to say that the texts of sermons and addresses from St James's were copyright protected and that if you wished to use them in anyway you had to ask the author. We have woken up to our mistake, and now practice 'open source sermons'. 'All things come from you, and of your own do we give you' is a phrase in the liturgy, which underlines that all we possess, create, produce and think arises only because of what we have freely received in the first place. We are advised to still show the copyright claim but want readers to feel free to use whatever they find in our sermon texts as they wish. Should you choose to let us know of any use you put them to, we would be delighted to hear from you - but that is not obligatory.
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Below are sermons and addresses from the last twelve months.
Most recent, first.
29 January 2012
Between the cradle and the Cross
Lindsay Meader
22 January 2012
Wedding at Cana in Galilee
Lucy Winkett
15 January 2012
Word of Mouth
Lindsay Meader
8 January 2012 Epiphany
Seek out those Epiphanies
Hugh Valentine
1 January 2012
Covenant Prayer
Lucy Winkett
25 December 2011
Text awaited
24 December 2011 Midnight Mass
Only Connect
Lindsay Meader
18 December 2011
11am Eucharist The angel and the girl are met Lucy Winkett
6pm Lessons & Carols Paint-stripper, flim-flam and the Incarnation Hugh Valentine
11 December 2011
If you find them to have meaning, live them
Hugh Valentine
4 December 2011
The Baptist and the Butterfly
Lindsay Meader
27 November 2011 | Advent Sunday
The Beginning is Nigh
Lucy Winkett
13 November 201 | Remembrance Sunday
Lives lain waste
Hugh Valentine
6 November 2011
The virgins have become bridesmaids
Hugh Valentine
30 October 2011 | All
Saints
Religion and politics in London
The Revd Lucy Winkett
23 October 2011
Love:
the heart of the Gospel
Lucy Winkett
16 October 2011
I see, I see, said the blind man (who couldn't see at all)
Hugh Valentine
9 October 2011
The God in my head I don't believe in
Lucy Winkett
2 October 2011 | Harvest
A question of balance
Lindsay Meader
25 September 2011
What you do with your days, you do with your life
Lucy Winkett
18 September 2011
Terms and conditions apply
Hugh Valentine
11 September 2011
Awareness Sunday 2011
Lindsay Meader
4 September 2011
Legging it
Hugh Valentine
21 August 2011
What kind of society?
Lucy Winkett
14 August 2011
We love London
Lucy Winkett
7 August 2011
Wade in the water
Lucy Winkett
31 July 2011
No dogmas were harmed in the making of this sermon
Hugh Valentine
17 July 2011
Weedy faith
Lucy Winkett
10 July 2011
For your own good: sermon for a baptism
Hugh Valentine
3 July 2011
You are no longer strangers and aliens/LGBT Pride sermon
Hugh Valentine
26 June 2011
Paul not Saul
Lucy Winkett
19 June 2011
What is the Trinity?
Lucy Winkett
12 June 2011 - Pentecost
Pentecost politics
Lucy Winkett
29 May 2011
What is love but a way of seeing
Hugh Valentine
22 May 2011
Show me the way to go home
Lindsay Meader
8 May 2011
Getting the tense right
Hugh Valentine
24 April 2011 | Easter Day
Easter Day Sermon
Lucy Winkett
21 April 2011 | Maundy Thursday
Para 1762, section 'c', sub-section (xii)
Hugh Valentine
17 April 2011 | Palm Sunday
It begins as it ends
Hugh Valentine
10 April 2011
Death-in-Life
Hugh Valentine
27 March 2011
Gospel for the Alternative
Lucy Winkett
20 March 2011
What about the workers?
Hugh Valentine
13 March 2011
Mental Fight
Lucy Winkett
9 Match 2011 | Ash Wednesday
Duty to dust
Lucy Winkett
6 March 2011
Life transfigured, life transformed
Lucy Winkett
27 February 2011
Reboot! For the kingdom of God is at hand
Lindsay Meader
20 February 2011
Turn the other cheek - why?
Lucy Winkett
13 February 2011
The Bible is Not God
Hugh Valentine
6 February 2011
Living a salty life
Lucy Winkett
30 January 2011
The climax of Epiphany
Lindsay Meader
23 January 2011
Conversation/practical sacrament
Hugh Valentine
Font, detail. (c) Hugh Valentine