Tag: suffering

Every moment has meaning

Sermon preached at St Anne’s Dunbar, Sunday 3rd Sept 2017                                                                                 Romans 12:9-21; Matthew 16:21-28 Every moment…

Facing Death: World Cancer Day

Today is World Cancer Day. This morning my social media streams contained a steady drip of reminders about it. Some were stories of hope and healing, but more were of battle and bereavement. Even the word “cancer” is difficult. As a descriptor of illness it’s so incredibly general as to be practically semantically empty, but simultaneously its…