Their Sound Goes out Through all the Earth

Friday 10 May 2024

A Sermon preached on May 9, 2024 in St Martin-in-the-Fields by Revd Dr Sam Wells

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BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day Wednesday 11 October, presented by Revd Dr Sam Wells

Wednesday 11 October 2023

BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day Wednesday 11 October, presented by Revd Dr Sam Wells

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Where is My Love to Go?

Friday 25 December 2020

A sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on December 25, 2020 by Revd Dr Sam Wells

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Is God a woman?

Tuesday 10 March 2020

Near the end of our Sunday service at St Martin’s we often have a slot called ‘Ask the Vicar.’ On Sunday a 14-year-old girl enquired, ‘Is God a woman?’

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Election

Friday 29 November 2019

Black Friday, (in America the day after Thanksgiving), has become the feast of shopping. This year it it falls just a couple of weeks before this country goes to the polls.

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Mental Health

Thursday 12 September 2019

If people were falling and breaking their leg across the country, editorials would be demanding an inquiry. Health and safety requirements would change within hours.

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Loyalty

Thursday 5 September 2019

Good morning. We’ve heard a lot about loyalty this week. When you say to someone, ‘Can I count on your support?’, the answer you dread is, ‘It depends on what you’re going to do.’ Because that answer suggests your friend has a loyalty higher than loyalty to you. They’re saying, ‘You can’t count on my support, but someone (or something) else can.’

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Freedom and Equality

Thursday 4 July 2019

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they’re endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’ Those words were agreed on the 4th of July, 1776 in the Declaration of Independence. Americans have spent the last 243 years debating what they mean.

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Rwandan Genocide

Tuesday 9 April 2019

Twenty-five years ago this week a plane carrying the Rwandan president was shot down on its descent into Kigali. In the hundred days that followed, soldiers and militias slaughtered an estimated 800,000 people

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