On this page you will find a selection of the sermons preached at Southwark Cathedral by clergy from the Cathedral, Diocese of Southwark and further afield
Unlike our esteemed Dean, I’m not much for social media. I browse occasionally, and post seldom. But I found myself re-joining Instagram this week upon reading that Angelina Jolie had recently made her debut there, and garnered 1.8 million followers in two hours – and that might even be more followers than our Dean and Hodge the cat combined
View sermonKeep out’, ‘No admittance’, ‘Private’, ‘Authorised persons only’, ‘Go away’. Whatever words are used the message is the same, you’re not welcome here. It’s quite different to those passes that celebs and ‘A listers’ desire ‘Access all areas’. Most of us will never get such treatment and the closed door will, potentially, always be there
View sermon‘We’re going to have a baby.’ ‘We’re pregnant.’ However the news is delivered it’s one of the most wonderful things that we can hear
View sermonYou’d be forgiven if you missed a little bit of news given the momentous stuff that we’ve been witnessing this week
View sermonHow appropriate are those words from the book of Exodus, the Lord ‘had seen the misery’ of the people and said to the rulers of the land, ‘Let my people go.’
View sermonTen years ago I spent a wonderful six weeks sabbatical in Sweden
View sermonThe lyrics of some songs just stick in your mind whether or not you’ve ever sung them. One song made popular by one hit wonder, Sylvia, in 1974 are these
View sermonIn E M Forster’s wonderful novel, ‘A Passage to India’, there’s the fateful visit by Mrs Moore and her party to the Marabar caves with their haunting echoes
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