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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.
The St James's Clergy.
Below are sermons and addresses from the last twelve months or so.
Most recent, first.
6 May 2012
Connectivity
Lindsay Meader
29 April 2012
Metaphysical equivalent of oven gloves
Hugh Valentine
22 April 2012
Towards an Easter People
Lindsay Meader
15 April 2012 | Easter 2
Raising the roof
Lucy Winkett
Easter Day 8 April 2012
A sermon for Easter Day, and beyond
Hugh Valentine
Good Friday 6 April 2012 - three addresses
The Power of Crowds (Hugh Valentine)
The Power of Silence and The Power of Vulnerability (Lucy Winkett)
Maundy Thursday 5 April
The disciples were uncomfortable with it; we hope you are, too
Hugh Valentine
25 March 2012
Letting go
Lucy Winkett
21 March 2012 - Lent Talk (3)
Missing Person: identity and anonymity
Lindsay Meader
18 March 2012
What's in a name? [Mothering Sunday]
Lindsay Meader
14 March 2012 - Lent Talk (3)
Fasten seat belts: life as adventure and risk
Hugh Valentine
11 March 2012
Could it be that God is more interested in our actions
than in our professions of belief?
Hugh Valentine
4 March 2012
The politics of Jesus
Lucy Winkett
29 February - Lent Talk (1)
24/7 – Ordering the Days of our Lives
Lindsay Meader
26 February 2012
This is how it is with me
Hugh Valentine
22 February 2012 Ash Wednesday
Rend your hearts, not your clothes
Lindsay Meader
19 February 2012
40 days to change your life?
Lucy Winkett
12 February 2012
We who come rough hewn
Christina Beardsley
5 February 2012
A CV to make God wince
Hugh Valentine
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
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, flimflam 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
Font, detail. (c) Hugh Valentine