Good and Bad News: a sermon after visiting Israel-Palestine

Based on a sermon delivered at West London Synagogue by Rabbi David Mitchell*

What do you want first, the good news of the bad news? I have good news which should reassure you and bad news which should trouble you. I’m afraid that you’re going to get both, but which would you prefer first?

(The congregation chose to hear the bad news first)

How do Christians see themselves in their new relationship with Jews?

A keynote lecture delivered by CCJ Chair, Rt Revd Dr Michael Ipgrave OBE, at the International Council of Christians and Jews conference 2019

Interfaith Group on March of the Living

As one of a dozen senior faith leaders, I took part in a pioneering interfaith delegation to this year’s March of the Living in Poland.  The trip is an intensive 5-day tour of the sites of the Nazi Holocaust – Warsaw, Kracow and the death camps of Majdanek, Belzec and Auschwitz.  It culminates in a walk on Yom HaShoah (the Jewish day of Holocaust Remembrance) by 15,000 people from Auschwitz to Read more

Passover: how we think about the Exodus

The Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, begins next Friday evening. Passover commemorates the Exodus from Egypt, and the journey of the Israelites from slavery to freedom. During the festival, Jews experience both of those extremes. We recall our ancestors’ oppression in Egypt by eating matzah, unleavened bread, for the duration of the festival. Read more

How to preach during Holy Week

The Revd Nathan Eddy is completing a PhD in Hebrew Bible. He lives in London where he is active in Jewish-Christian dialogue and is the editor of the devotional book ‘Fresh from the Word: Bible for a Change’.

St George’s College – Sharing Perspectives

For the past 20 years I’ve visited Israel on family holidays and special occasions, at times meeting relatives and friends or just lying in the Eilat sun. But nothing prepared me for the remarkable 9-day journey hosted by St George’s College Jerusalem called ‘Sharing Perspectives: Jews, Christians, Muslims – Three Faiths in Conversation.’

Where is God in the Purim story?

It has always been puzzling that God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther – and yet it is still a fully-fledged Biblical book! Jewish tradition has a couple of different ways of resolving this issue.

Women’s Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible

“The wisdom of women builds her house.”

[Proverbs 14:1]

Reclaiming Women in the Early Church

Each of the epistles (letters in the New Testament) that is ascribed to an author, is ascribed to a man. The letters focus on the ministry of these men and so the view we can get of the early Church is that of a church dominated by men. However the end of Paul’s letter to the Romans tells a different story. Read more

A Christian sermon for Holocaust Memorial Day

Preached at Exeter Cathedral, Sunday 27th January 2019

Rob Thompson, Senior Programme Manager

Luke 4: 14-21

74 years ago Soviet troops liberated the concentration camps at Auschwitz.