Gerry Lynch
@therealgerrylynch.bsky.social
Rector in Wiltshire, postgrad in Oxford, former politico in Belfast, photographer anywhere that will let me in. I have a late-2000s style website with lots of actual content at https://www.gerrylynch.co.uk/
If you think the idea of resurrection is absurd, you aren’t alone. It offends our scientific worldview, and even in the ancient world, the Sadducees—the smart, rationalist, high social class, scholars of Jesus’ Palestine—totally made fun of Him for believing in Resurrection. 1/7
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If you think the idea of resurrection is absurd, you aren’t alone. It offends our scientific worldview, and even in the ancient world, the Sadducees—the smart, rationalist, high social class, scholars of Jesus’ Palestine—totally made fun of Him for believing in Resurrection. 1/7
One of the lessons I’ve learned from these recent years of gathering crisis is that too many of those dreams of progress, the ones that have started looking in trouble, thought they could change human nature, or flew entirely in the face of it. www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/07/27/p...
Prayer, Persistence, and Peace—A Sermon
The world won't be perfect; but we're told to pray for God's Kingdom to come on Earth. How do we resolve this tension?
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July 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
One of the lessons I’ve learned from these recent years of gathering crisis is that too many of those dreams of progress, the ones that have started looking in trouble, thought they could change human nature, or flew entirely in the face of it. www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/07/27/p...
It was a privilege to review @dannydvincent.bsky.social's documentary for BBC World Service's Heart and Soul on those who escape North Korea and then become Christians as they rebuild their lives in the South.
Gerry Lynch reviews Heart and Soul: Escaping North Korea and Sunday 📻🎧
Radio review: Heart and Soul: Escaping North Korea and Sunday
FOR several decades, charities monitoring the persecution of Christians have listed North Korea as t...
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July 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It was a privilege to review @dannydvincent.bsky.social's documentary for BBC World Service's Heart and Soul on those who escape North Korea and then become Christians as they rebuild their lives in the South.
The Church of England Newspaper (@churchnewspaper.bsky.social)
has paused publication while it seeks a financial way forward: it had been supported by media entrepreneur Keith Young who died in February. Thoughts with staff
at what must be an unsettling & upsetting time. mailchi.mp/012009fa66be...
has paused publication while it seeks a financial way forward: it had been supported by media entrepreneur Keith Young who died in February. Thoughts with staff
at what must be an unsettling & upsetting time. mailchi.mp/012009fa66be...
July 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Church of England Newspaper (@churchnewspaper.bsky.social)
has paused publication while it seeks a financial way forward: it had been supported by media entrepreneur Keith Young who died in February. Thoughts with staff
at what must be an unsettling & upsetting time. mailchi.mp/012009fa66be...
has paused publication while it seeks a financial way forward: it had been supported by media entrepreneur Keith Young who died in February. Thoughts with staff
at what must be an unsettling & upsetting time. mailchi.mp/012009fa66be...
We all like a summer evening drive... Corfe Castle, Dorset, 9 July 2025.
July 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We all like a summer evening drive... Corfe Castle, Dorset, 9 July 2025.
We expect the saints to be serious, humourless, and so holy halos float over them as they walk down the street. But the Bible records them as real people, with complex characters—and if Jesus truly is God made human, then God has a sharp sense of humour! www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/07/20/w...
Would God Wind You Up?
If Jesus truly is God made man, then God has an acute sense of humour!
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July 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We expect the saints to be serious, humourless, and so holy halos float over them as they walk down the street. But the Bible records them as real people, with complex characters—and if Jesus truly is God made human, then God has a sharp sense of humour! www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/07/20/w...
In this week's Church Times radio review, I cover Sunday exploring if a blasphemy law is emerging by the back door; and a weird hypermasculine priest in Texas; and Heart and Soul visiting Syrian Alawites who have fled to Lebanon after sectarian mass murder. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Radio review: Sunday and Heart and Soul
IT WAS nice to have a genuinely meaty debate on Sunday (Radio 4). Hamit Coskun’s conviction for publ...
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June 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In this week's Church Times radio review, I cover Sunday exploring if a blasphemy law is emerging by the back door; and a weird hypermasculine priest in Texas; and Heart and Soul visiting Syrian Alawites who have fled to Lebanon after sectarian mass murder. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
I remembered the time in a Church in Belfast I heard that bit about the Parthians and Medes being read in a strong Iranian accent, and so preached on the Church's surprising growth in Iran in recent decades, and martyrdom, and believing because of the works... www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/06/08/m...
Modern Medes and Parthians—A Sermon for Pentecost
Despite persecution and even martyrdom, the Church in Iran has grown rapidly in recent decades. It might be the Holy Spirit at work!
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June 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I remembered the time in a Church in Belfast I heard that bit about the Parthians and Medes being read in a strong Iranian accent, and so preached on the Church's surprising growth in Iran in recent decades, and martyrdom, and believing because of the works... www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/06/08/m...
My radio review this week is quite Radio 4 focused—Clare Balding's Ramblings as she takes on the Camino; Nick Sturdee on Ukraine's disputing Orthodox denominations on From Our Own Correspondent.
"The programme started as a nicely produced but fairly anodyne travel programme — all wild garlic smells and lichen-covered bridges — but soon segued into something more profound," writes Gerry Lynch
Radio review: Ramblings and From Our Own Correspondent
FOR the 25th anniversary of Ramblings (Radio 4, Monday), Clare Balding is fulfilling a longstanding ...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
My radio review this week is quite Radio 4 focused—Clare Balding's Ramblings as she takes on the Camino; Nick Sturdee on Ukraine's disputing Orthodox denominations on From Our Own Correspondent.
The Tankwa Karoo National Park as a summer afternoon turns to evening. #SouthAfrica
May 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Tankwa Karoo National Park as a summer afternoon turns to evening. #SouthAfrica
On Starmer’s migration speech—Denmark’s Social Democrats did this. It didn’t crash the economy but did crash the far-right People’s Party. There’s plenty of room for them to screw up the implementation, but this has already worked in a broadly comparable NW European country. 1/6
May 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
On Starmer’s migration speech—Denmark’s Social Democrats did this. It didn’t crash the economy but did crash the far-right People’s Party. There’s plenty of room for them to screw up the implementation, but this has already worked in a broadly comparable NW European country. 1/6
A week ago I'd never heard of Robert Prevost and a month ago I didn't know what a cardinal *actually* was, but in this thread I will with great authority explain why Pope Leo XIV is wonderful/awful/evil... (delete to fit clickbait target) 1/116
May 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A week ago I'd never heard of Robert Prevost and a month ago I didn't know what a cardinal *actually* was, but in this thread I will with great authority explain why Pope Leo XIV is wonderful/awful/evil... (delete to fit clickbait target) 1/116
Chicago is ecumenically a very interesting place for a Pope to hail from: a stronghold of Catholicism, and also one of the greatest concentrations of Eastern Orthodox in the USA, and also, both in the Black community and among the White elite, large and significant Protestant churches. 1/3
May 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Chicago is ecumenically a very interesting place for a Pope to hail from: a stronghold of Catholicism, and also one of the greatest concentrations of Eastern Orthodox in the USA, and also, both in the Black community and among the White elite, large and significant Protestant churches. 1/3
I'm going up to church now for the Vigil at 8 pm. So it's time for the talking snake sermon again. It seems bonkers... until you realise what it's really about, which is the besetting 21st Century problem, humanity exceeding the limits our nature puts on us. www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2023/04/08/w...
Why the Talking Snake Matters: Sermon Preached on Saturday 8th April 2023 (Easter Vigil) - Gerry Lynch’s Blog
The Garden of Eden is a myth about what humans were before we had the capacity to exterminate other forms of life at our convenience Continue reading →
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April 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I'm going up to church now for the Vigil at 8 pm. So it's time for the talking snake sermon again. It seems bonkers... until you realise what it's really about, which is the besetting 21st Century problem, humanity exceeding the limits our nature puts on us. www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2023/04/08/w...
A sermon praising beauty, condemning bare materialism, explaining what nard is (a honeysuckle-like flower from the Himalayas) and asking the ladies of the parish if they'd like to sport a Sinead O'Connor-style buzzcut. www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/04/06/b...
Beauty and Idols—A Sermon (Featuring Sinead O'Connor)
Beauty is 'useless': but it's a gift in a life that is sometimes hard, and a sign we are made for more than consuming and surviving.
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April 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A sermon praising beauty, condemning bare materialism, explaining what nard is (a honeysuckle-like flower from the Himalayas) and asking the ladies of the parish if they'd like to sport a Sinead O'Connor-style buzzcut. www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/04/06/b...
Captured with a camera, not generated with AI...
April 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Captured with a camera, not generated with AI...
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Trump announces 10% reciprocal tariff for United Kingdom and 20% for EU.
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Trump announces 10% reciprocal tariff for United Kingdom and 20% for EU.
Kyiv before the war.... Lavrska Street, 11 August 2017. © Gerry Lynch.
April 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Kyiv before the war.... Lavrska Street, 11 August 2017. © Gerry Lynch.
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The era of broadcast television—and only broadcast television—was an incredible thing.
Your audience is essentially the entire public; the entire public is gathered and shaped as one audience.
“Mainstream,” whatever it might mean in the future, is unlikely ever to acquire that same cohesion again.
Your audience is essentially the entire public; the entire public is gathered and shaped as one audience.
“Mainstream,” whatever it might mean in the future, is unlikely ever to acquire that same cohesion again.
Broadcast is uniquely potent in its ability to create shared understandings and influence social reality. In a world where media sources have proliferated, and consumption is predominantly asynchronous, does it still have the same bite? www.liberalcurrents.com/forming-an-o...
March 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The era of broadcast television—and only broadcast television—was an incredible thing.
Your audience is essentially the entire public; the entire public is gathered and shaped as one audience.
“Mainstream,” whatever it might mean in the future, is unlikely ever to acquire that same cohesion again.
Your audience is essentially the entire public; the entire public is gathered and shaped as one audience.
“Mainstream,” whatever it might mean in the future, is unlikely ever to acquire that same cohesion again.
What's your furthest north, south, east, west, up & down on dry land?
North: Gullfoss 🇮🇸 64°19'
South: Cape Agulhas 🇿🇦 34°50'
East: Simatai 🇨🇳 117°17'
West: Qualicum Beach 🇨🇦 124°26'
Highest: Lisiu Mafika Pass 🇱🇸 3090m 🔼 sea level
Lowest: Dead Sea shore. It was 437m 🔽 back then; the bit I was on is in 🇵🇸.
North: Gullfoss 🇮🇸 64°19'
South: Cape Agulhas 🇿🇦 34°50'
East: Simatai 🇨🇳 117°17'
West: Qualicum Beach 🇨🇦 124°26'
Highest: Lisiu Mafika Pass 🇱🇸 3090m 🔼 sea level
Lowest: Dead Sea shore. It was 437m 🔽 back then; the bit I was on is in 🇵🇸.
March 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
What's your furthest north, south, east, west, up & down on dry land?
North: Gullfoss 🇮🇸 64°19'
South: Cape Agulhas 🇿🇦 34°50'
East: Simatai 🇨🇳 117°17'
West: Qualicum Beach 🇨🇦 124°26'
Highest: Lisiu Mafika Pass 🇱🇸 3090m 🔼 sea level
Lowest: Dead Sea shore. It was 437m 🔽 back then; the bit I was on is in 🇵🇸.
North: Gullfoss 🇮🇸 64°19'
South: Cape Agulhas 🇿🇦 34°50'
East: Simatai 🇨🇳 117°17'
West: Qualicum Beach 🇨🇦 124°26'
Highest: Lisiu Mafika Pass 🇱🇸 3090m 🔼 sea level
Lowest: Dead Sea shore. It was 437m 🔽 back then; the bit I was on is in 🇵🇸.
Our next Devizes Deanery Choral Evensong will take place St Mary the Virgin, Bishops Cannings at 6 pm on Sunday 30 March.
For those who would like to sing, please feel free to turn up to the rehearsal on the day – the rehearsal will start promptly at 4.15 pm. 1/3
For those who would like to sing, please feel free to turn up to the rehearsal on the day – the rehearsal will start promptly at 4.15 pm. 1/3
March 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Our next Devizes Deanery Choral Evensong will take place St Mary the Virgin, Bishops Cannings at 6 pm on Sunday 30 March.
For those who would like to sing, please feel free to turn up to the rehearsal on the day – the rehearsal will start promptly at 4.15 pm. 1/3
For those who would like to sing, please feel free to turn up to the rehearsal on the day – the rehearsal will start promptly at 4.15 pm. 1/3
Primrose morning, Great Cheverell churchyard. #Wiltshire
March 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Primrose morning, Great Cheverell churchyard. #Wiltshire
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Jonathan Brash, Labour MP for Hartlepool
March 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Jonathan Brash, Labour MP for Hartlepool
If I’m being honest, I didn’t much like today’s readings when I sat down to prepare my sermon. I’m not sure that I enjoy them any the more now. But real religion, which actually sheds light on the human condition, is more than uplifting spiritual Prozac. www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/03/23/t...
Time to Change Direction?—A Sermon
Today’s life-giving new insight may become stale and deadening over time. God may often ask us to change direction.
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March 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If I’m being honest, I didn’t much like today’s readings when I sat down to prepare my sermon. I’m not sure that I enjoy them any the more now. But real religion, which actually sheds light on the human condition, is more than uplifting spiritual Prozac. www.gerrylynch.co.uk/2025/03/23/t...