What's in Kelvin's Head

Here is what I said this morning:

The readings that we have had this morning are the readings set for the day – the sixth Sunday after Epiphany. Most of the time, the readings that we use in St Mary’s are the same as the readings that many of our friends use in other local [...]

You learn new things about Christmas with every one that passes you by. I learn new things about how to keep these festivals each year. One Christmas builds on another. Perhaps we learn more about the God who came into the world each year that we live in it.
About a month ago, we started to [...]

I’ve had a huge amount of bother posting videos recently. My usual video host hipcast seems no longer to be working.
So, I’m trying out a new host, vimeo. If it works,  it may well be time to shift to vimeo and pay up for a premium account.
Anyway, there is now video of Akma (aka Fr [...]

I forgot to set the camera up this morning (still needing a couple of people to be the camera team, I think). So, no video from this morning. Here is the text though:
The tradition in churches like this one is to try to make something special of Advent. Whilst the rest of the world is [...]

Here is this morning’s sermon:

It is quite difficult to get our minds inside the kind of readings that we get at this time of the year in church. We tend to get readings (and this will go on for a week or two) which emphasis quite tricky topics. In particular, we get lots of [...]

Here is what I said in the pulpit this morning.

Hearing that Gospel, I always think how real it is.
If there are good seats, people always want them. And it seems very real that James and John were trying to secure for themselves the best seats in heaven.
People are funny about seats, aren’t they? [...]

The video camera ran out of memory this morning before it recorded the sermon, so I'm afraid I can only offer the text. However, before it ran out, it did record me singing David's Lamentation which came between the first two readings. A useful reminder that it is not only by listening to sermons that [...]

Preached in St Mary's Cathedral on 26 July 2009

Every now and then you get an event which makes all the clergy telephone one another. It happens when a bishop announces his retirement, for example. Sometimes it happens when someone gets themselves in one of the newspapers, especially in the tabloid press. Not, that it [...]

Here is a sermon that I preached recently which didn't make it online until now. (I've been catching up with posting sermons online. There is also one from Fr Ivan Draper here from last Sunday on the preaching page too).

Ah, here she comes. Salome shimmers into view. We get her saucy story, appropriately enough [...]

Here is the sermon that I preached at the Jazz Mass on Sunday. It is preceded by a fanfare organ improvisation from Frikki Walker, to get me up into the pulpit, which if I'm not mistaken was based on a song from Michael Jackson's Bad album.

Here is the text:
Can I say how wonderful it [...]