In more than thirty years Alan Neale has accompanied, supported and helped guide those in transition. Transition from single to couple, from closet to openly gay. The doors of transition have been marked age, employment, failing health and so much more. Alan’s work as Transition Coach is shaped by the beliefs that no-one is called to be alone in their journey, that strength is needed for the journey and that there is an “eloquence of the now” to which attention must be given. Everyone, every day is in transition; Alan is for you an experienced, sensitive, alert companion in the journey
This subject is crucial to living well. The sermon audio is below the text. There are a couple of significant additions in the spoken sermon. Sermon preached at Trinity Church, Newport RI; March 29th 2018 (Maundy Thursday) The Reverend Alan Neale; Vulnerability – Excruciating or Exquisite For over five years this book has been on… Continue reading
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922) “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?” “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse…. Continue reading
Brene Brown on “Love and Vulnerability” (from her tremendous book “Daring Greatly”) We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection Love is not something we give or… Continue reading
Click here for article Angela Tilby: How I would prepare Ms Markle for baptism and confirmation by Angela Tilby 09 March 2018 Published Church Times, London PA Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in the Sunken Garden, at Kensington Palace, after their engagement was announced, in December IF I had to prepare Meghan Markle for her baptism and… Continue reading
The sermon text is below the sermon audio Sermon preached at Trinity Church, Newport RI; Sunday March 11 2018, The Reverend Alan Neale; “Facing Demons” One of President Trump’s spiritual advisers. Gloria Copeland, told Christians recently, “Do not inoculate yourselves with a shot against flu, rather inoculate yourselves with the Word of God.” She went… Continue reading
The text for today’s sermon is below the sermon audio… great response to the preached sermon and this is always nourishing to the preacher’s soul; in fact, almost any response is nourishing. Sermon preached at Trinity Church, Newport, RI, Sunday January 21, 2018 The Reverend Alan Neale, “Repent – it’s never too late” Yesterday… Continue reading
Today the sermon was preached without script; worship was held in the Parish Hall as the Church was 43degrees! In the fun intimacy of the temporary setting it just seemed right not to preach from a lectern… with script. So, no audio. A (!) text is below that sort of resembles what was preached. This… Continue reading
This sermon comes from reflection on the texts but also on a poem by Abp. Rowan Williams with which we concluded a four-part study. I felt convinced and convicted that I must allow “a loyal and divine opposition” to challenge me – my attitudes, decisions, lifestyle. Hegelian Dialectic might be old-fashioned but its process is… Continue reading
I cannot remember ever preaching on Jesus’s Parable of the Five Wise and Five Foolish Virgins; what a good friend of mine yesterday described as, “Not one of Jesus’ better parables!”. Forty years of parish ministry and no sermon on this text. As with all parables it’s important to get the thrust of the message… Continue reading
I get to talk about one of my favorite characters, the drunk turned evangelist in late eighteenth century Cornwall, UK – Bill Bray! “God’s man with a shout.” His call to the balanced life of spiritual living is key to constant and profound happiness. Below the sermon audio is the text that was taken into… Continue reading