In this episode, we are moving away from the texts of the ancient Jewish world, and jumping to the twentieth century. Elliott speaks to Rabbi Colin Eimer about a sermon he gave back in 1982, at the height of the Falklands Crisis. They talk about the context in which the sermon was given and how we go about writing our sermons. We think about what remains relevant today, and also how this sermon might have been different if it had been delivered in 2025.

If you want to read Rabbi Colin's sermon, including some explanatory footnotes, click here.

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Next week, we are going back into the Hebrew Bible – Elliott is joined by Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen to talk about the figure of Ritzpah.

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