Sermon - Dead ends, life starts

The Raising of Lazarus, 1943, by Jose Clemente Orozco

A sermon preached at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 26th March and St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 30th March 2023 (Year A, 5th Sunday of Lent) based on readings from Psalm 130, Romans 8.6-11 and John 11.1-45.

Choral Classics - Our Journey

David Hockney, Pearlblossom Highway, 1986

It was a great joy to introduce Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook this week, five beautiful choral works and two readings on the theme 'Our Journey'. A recording of the service is on YouTube. My script is below:

Start:Stop-The Economics of Failure

Hamed Abdalla, Defeat, 1963, Tate Gallery

Start:Stop at St Stephen Walbrook enables busy people to start their day by stopping to reflect. Ten minute reflections are repeated on the quarter hour, from 7.45am until 9.00am every Tuesday morning, beginning with a reading from scripture, followed by a reflection based on an event from this week in history, with space for silence and prayer. You can hear a recording of this week’s reflection at this link and read the script below.

Good morning and welcome to St Stephen Walbrook where on Tuesday mornings we start the day by stopping to reflect.

During Lent our Start:Stop reflections are inspired by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book, ‘Failure’, written by the Bishop of Kensington. Today we consider what the bible teaches us about learning to live with failure.

We begin with a short reading from scripture, which you can find on page fifteen of the New Testament.

Prayers of Intercession - Save Us Lord

Christ and Nicodemus, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1919

Prayers written for the Sung Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 9th March 2023 (Year A, Second Sunday of Lent) based on John 3.1-17.

Sermon - Learning to Sing the Song of Mary

Timur Poerwowidagdo, Magnificat

A sermon given at Choral Evensong at St Sepulchre (the National Musicians’ Church) on Wednesday 8th March 2023 with readings chosen to reflect the theme of International Women’s Day - 1 Samuel 2.1-10 and Luke 1.46-55.

Choral Classics - Phenomenal Women

Dorrit Black, Music, 1928 (Gallery of New South Wales)

It was a great joy to introduce Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook this week, five beautiful choral works and two readings on the theme 'Phenomenal Women', marking International Women's Day. A recording of the service is on YouTube. My script is below: