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Tackling difficult subjects from the pulpit is not an easy task: it takes a degree of courage and sensitivity. Reluctance to risk such preaching often stems from simply not knowing how to go about ... Read more
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Ray Simpson
Ray Simpson’s daily prayer tweet @praycelticdaily profiles him as A Celtic New Monastic for Tomorrow's World. He is the Founding Guardian of the international Community of Aidan and Hilda (a dispersed inter-church movement which is also an Acknowledged Anglican Community).
Since ordination, nearly 40 years ago, John has been a parish priest; Senior Selection Secretary at Church House, Westminster; Director of Ordinands, and Canon at Southwark Cathedral.
Tackling difficult subjects from the pulpit is not an easy task: it takes a degree of courage and sensitivity. Reluctance to risk such preaching often stems from simply not knowing how to go about it. There are many more difficult subjects than could be addressed in the first book of this series, so here are a further 72 topics from Abortion to Wealth, Fraud to Promiscuity, and even the contentious issue of Superstition. Each subject includes a biblical text, some background information, sermon ideas, a story and a thought to take away, with the authors bringing their own expertise and particular style to the format.
Authors Rupert Bristow, Jocelyn Bryan, Tony Castle, Helen Costigane, John Cox, Paul Cox, Brian Fahy, Brendan Geary, Ed Hone, Deborah Jones, Bruce Kent, Alison Moore, Chris Morley, Paul Nicholson, Siobhán O'Keeffe, John Parr, Robert Reiss, Clare Richards, Edgar Ruddock, John Saxbee, Ray Simpson, Joy Tetley, Helen Warwick
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Subjects Abortion Abstinence Adoption AIDS/HIV Ambition Anger Animal rights Anti-semitism Astrology Capitalism Censorship Childlessness Conflict Depression Deprivation Despair Discipline Discrimination Embryology Euthanasia Exorcism Fertility/infertility Fortune-telling Fraud Gay marriage Genetic manipulation Gluttony Gossip Guilt Healing Human rights Hunger Hypocrisy Islamophobia Lust Lying Magic Materialism Money Multiculturalism Natural Disasters Old age Organ transplant Pain Permissiveness Persecution Power Prejudice Pride Prison Promiscuity Punishment Rape Reconciliation Repentance Responsibility Responsible behaviour Revenge Risk Scandal Secularism Slander Sterilisation Superstition Swearing Theft Tokenism Travellers and gypsies Usury Vivisection Wealth World hunger
