Sermon preached on the Second Sunday after Trinity at St. John's Hills Road in Cambridge.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. One of the beautiful perks of living in Cambridge, for an extrovert like me, is that many of your friends want to come and visit to partake in the beauty of such a historic city. I always give my visiting friends a walk around the historic landmarks, and when I give them a tour of the colleges, I always try to do something different. Recently, I took a visiting friend to the Round Church, one of only four in the country, built by Norman crusaders as a tribute to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. One of my favorite characteristics of it is the fine medieval angels looking down upon us from the roof above the altar; they often go unnoticed. This was a feature of East Anglian churches at the time. The style of English angels is unique within Christian iconography: elongated figures with pointed feet, their necks tilted and extended, their eyes large, and their facial features very distinct in order to convey t...
