Ruth Greenaway-Robbins

An Anglican Priest sharing sermons, musings and thoughts

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I’m an Anglican priest, an Associate Vicar in Diocese of London. I’ve lived across the UK and spent nearly a decade in Vancouver, Canada — places and people who have shaped my heart for welcome, justice, and the boundless love of God. Before ordination, I was a professional musician, voice teacher, and educator — music still threads through my life, alongside liturgy, liberation theologies, and the wisdom of Lady Julian of Norwich. I believe deeply in living a self-compassionate life rooted in the love of God — where all are welcome and no one is left outside. Here you’ll find sermons, thoughts, prayers, and glimpses of my life as a priest, Mum, wife, musician, swimmer, and lover of books, fashion, and rescue animals. This is a space where imperfection is welcome — dyslexia and all — and where my hope is that you might find good news, belonging, and reminders that you, too, are God’s beloved.

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  • Palm Sunday – Keeping Holy Time: Entering the Great Week

    This Lent, here at St. Andrew’s and in accross our partnership, we continue our series Keeping Holy Time, where we have been exploring why do we do what we do in Lent and holy week, and by engaging with it more deeply ahead of time we can be more able to enter into the mystery and…

  • First Sunday in Lent – Keeping Holy Time: From Garden to Desert

    Genesis 2:15–17; 3:1–7 | Psalm 32 | Matthew 4:1–11 Keeping Holy Time This Lent at St. Andrews N16, and in our partnership with St. Mary’s N16, we are journeying together through the theme “Keeping Holy Time.” Week by week, we are exploring the great days of this season – from Ash Wednesday and Lent itself, through Palm…

  • “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” | Sermon for Ash Wednesday

    “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” Psalm 51 | Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21 I wonder if someone has already asked you today what you are giving up for Lent? Chocolate is usually first.Then alcohol.Biscuits.Social media. And none of those are bad things. But Lent can begin to…

  • A Simple Ash Wednesday Devotion

    For use at home, at work, or wherever you are You may wish to light a candle or find a place to be still and quiet. The Sign of the Cross In the name of the Father,and of the Son,and of the Holy Spirit.Amen. A Beginning Grace, mercy and peacefrom God our Fatherand the Lord…

  • Transfiguration Sunday: A Glimpse of Glory before the Journey

    Matthew 17:1–9 | Exodus 24:12–end | Psalm 99 Have you ever had a moment when something you thought you understood suddenly became clear in an entirely new way? Not because the facts changed – but because your perception did. A conversation, an encounter, a piece of music, a prayer – and suddenly you see and…

  • When someone names the light in you.

    Candlemas holds a very precious place in my heart. It is one of my favourite feasts of the Church year. I love it because it is real. I love it because it is full of joy and hope, and because it refuses to turn away from the pain woven through the story of our salvation.…

  • “To Turn Will Be Our Delight”

    Act 9:1-22 | Galatians 1:11-16b  I wonder if you have ever known someone who has had what we might call a Damascus moment – a moment where a way of life, a settled belief, or a deeply held view has been radically interrupted, and they have turned another way altogether. In the Acts of the Apostles, we…

  • You are Beloved: The Feast of the Baptism of Christ

    On the Feast of the Baptism of Christ, the Church invites us to linger at the riverbank. This moment – quiet, ordinary, almost easily overlooked – stands at the heart of who Jesus is, and therefore at the heart of who we are called to be. Jesus comes to the Jordan and steps into the…

  • God is nearer than we dare to imagine

    It is no accident that Christians gather at night to begin our celebration of Christmas. For Christmas does not begin in the full light of day, but in the quiet hours when most of the world is asleep. In scripture, night is never simply the absence of light. Night is where things happen. Night is…

  • 23 December – O Emmanuel (God with us)

    “Come and save us, O Lord our God” O Emmanuel, our King and our lawgiver,the hope of the nations and their Saviour:Come and save us, O Lord our God. After all the titles, Wisdom.Lord.Root.Key.Dawn.King. We arrive at a name. Each has drawn us closer, narrowing the focus, sharpening the longing. And now, on the final…