Bishop's Blog
Easter 2020 – Bishop Philip’s message
It is strange to be writing this Easter message in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. I just don’t know where we will be by the time you read this. […]
My sermon from Mothering Sunday, March 22, 2020
May I speak in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen At times of crisis we can tend to default to what is familiar […]
A sermon about St Piran and the cross – and hopefully not a lack of imagination!
Cross of St. Piran service 2020 Isaiah 53:1-6; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 In what some of you might consider a staggering lack of imagination, I thought that this year, at this […]
Safeguarding – if it’s God’s business, it’s all our business
Here is the text of a talk I gave at an event to celebrate the roles of our parish safeguarding co-ordinators. ‘God is our strength and refuge, our very present help in […]
Together this Christmas
Whatever your views on politics, I’m sure you would agree that a divided society cannot be a happy society; and ours has been sadly divided in recent years. Indeed, politicians […]
Creationtide All Age Sermon: Songs for Earth
Here is the Creationtide all-age sermon I gave at Truro Cathedral during the Songs for Earth service in November. I guess many of you have been to some kind of […]
Presidential address to Truro Diocesan Synod, November 2019
Romans 5:1-5 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which […]
Trafalgar Sermon given at Madron 20 October, 2019
This is a copy of the Sermon given in Madron Church for the Trafalgar service. On 21 October, 1805 news of the battle of Trafalgar and Nelson’s death was first […]
Presidential address to Truro Diocesan Synod, September 2019
Luke 8:43-48. “Now there was a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhages for twelve years; and though she had spent all she had on physicians, no one could cure her. She […]
The Spirit of One and All
I recently sat in a room at a meeting of the Cornwall Faith Forum. Alongside Roman Catholics, Quakers and Methodists there were representatives of the Muslim, Jewish and Hindu communities. […]
