Fr Richard Tuset's blog and other bits and pieces on Christianity

Luke 3. 1-6 Advent 2 (2024) Debie Thomas reminds us that Advent is a good time to remember the Bible as a “wilderness text.” It’s a book...

Dear Friends, Some thank yous I did some thanks for the harvest festival activities last month and wanted to let you know we managed to...

(This talk was given at St Wullfran's monthly Spirit Service in August 2024. These Spirit services have different themes and the one held...

Ovingdean News July and August Well Summer is here and whilst the last thing we need is a heat wave, a little bit more sun and warmth...

Mark 3:20-35 (2024) There is so much going on in this reading we have from Mark today it’s difficult to pick a key area of focus....

Pentecost 2024 We had a great Spirit Service recently on spirituality and age and the important message from this for me was about the...

Ovingdean News May 2024 May has to be my favorite month  - the month of Mary, the Mother of God and the season in my opinion of the best...

December 2023 - Ovingdean News It's been another very busy year hasn't it? Whilst there have been challenges, losses and difficulties...

Sermon given at St Margaret's Rottingdean Can you remember when you were young and you went for a drive on a summers day or especially in...

A few weeks back the whole edition of Church Times was themed around Artificial Intelligence and I thought I'd share a few thoughts on...

Romans 13 - End and Matthew 18: 15-20 It was the Feast Day for St Teresa of Calcutta on the 5th of September and it won’t come as a...

Matthew 15 (10-20) 21 - 28 The Rev. Carmel Jones, one of the most prominent members of the Windrush Generation, and one of the UK’s most...

Matthew 9:35 - 10:8 I was listening to a favourite song of mine by an artist called Pink! the other day called ‘Conversation with my 13...

April 2022 Ovingdean News In the forefront of all our minds this Lent has been the war in Ukraine and those affected by the earthquake in...

This sermon is about inclusion and the includes an adaptation of some excellent writing by Ruth Wilde from Inclusive Church. Ruth Wilde...

Ovingdean News March 2023 It feels like every month brings yet another significant and often difficult moment somewhere in the world or...

The Bible's Yes to Same-Sex Marriage: An Evangelical's Change of Heart - Book Review "This book is the story of a change of heart. In the...

Ovingdean News February 2023 I’d like to start this note with some thank yous. Firstly a huge thank you to everyone who has helped...

Ovingdean News January I hope your Christmas, however you celebrated it, was joyful and I wish you a very happy New Year. It was so...

November 2022 Looking around beautiful Ovingdean at this time of the year a Cynthia Rylant quote comes to mind: “In November, the earth...