Peace in the Turmoil Reflections, sermons, poems & creative writing by Stuart Durber, Anglican Reader @ St Michael Flixton, exploring faith, community & spiritual insight

This morning's #sermon for the second Sunday of Easter - hope you enjoy reading it!

And third: Inheritance - sermonsandgubbins.blogspot.com/2026/03/inhe...

#WorldPoetryDay

Second: Social Media Influenza (first few verses in the image, click the link for more) - sermonsandgubbins.blogspot.com/2026/03/soci...

#WorldPoetryDay

Happy #WorldPoetryDay!

In this thread, I’ll link to some I've written this year

First: A Moment to Myself

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Reflections, sermons, poems & creative writing by Stuart Durber, Anglican Reader @ St Michael Flixton, exploring faith, community & spiritual insight

This morning's #sermon on the #Transfiguration. Hope you enjoy reading it!

A Sermon for the Festival of Holy Innocents Sermons and other thoughts on things like faith, politics, disability and life in general (probably)

This morning’s sermon for the Festival of the #HolyInnocents (cheery topic!)

I hope you enjoy reading it, and happy Christmas!

Remembrance Sunday 2025 Sermons and other thoughts on things like faith, politics, disability and life in general (probably)

This morning’s sermon for #remembranceSunday

Bible Sunday 2025 Sermons and other thoughts on things like faith, politics, disability and life in general (probably)

My sermon from this morning for #BibleSunday - hope you enjoy reading it!

The Story of St Matthew Sermons and other thoughts on things like faith, politics, disability and life in general (probably)

This morning’s #story to celebrate #StMatthew‘sDay - I hope you enjoy reading it!

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Sleeping through the Storm Sermons and other thoughts on things like faith, politics, disability and life in general (probably)

This morning's #sermon on the most unusual places I have had a nap.

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Screenshot is of the words to the poem, 'Time and Tide'. The words in text form can be found on the link in this post.

New #poem - 'Time and Tide'

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I'm just commenting to see who else gets mentioned. I love @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social though - he's inspired me in my own febrile attempts!

I've certainly seen some very good stuff from @scholarpriest.bsky.social too if you've not come across him?

Inauguration Day Sermons and other thoughts on things like faith, politics, disability and life in general (probably)

This morning's #sermon was about sermons. And, just maybe, the events of recent days - Inauguration Day.

I think I will be re-reading this for some time to come.

It is good, important work.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Read, reread, reread. It will hit differently again today, and next week, and next month.

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

A carving of a man being burned at the stake with the caption "lord open the king of England's eyes"

I will note that pulpit from which the Bishop gave her sermon is not only the one from which Martin Luther King Jr gave his last sermon on the Sunday before he was killed, it also contains a panel of a man being martyred, paired with an exhortation for God to open the eyes of a tyrannical leader.

Yes. Let's talk about that rather than a nazi salute. #deadcat

Am sure many are replying with the same, but the last few days have also been the catalyst for me. Maybe it's just who I've chosen to follow, but this place is already infinitely better (albeit smaller)

I'm glad to be here! X can get in the bin.

...or purposefully, for that matter.

Hello! I have never accidently done a nazi salute. How about you?