Thought for the Day-The Price of Freedom

Robert Wedderburn, Museum of Colour

A brief ‘Thought for the Day’ given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on July 30th 2025 based on the text of Matthew 13.44-46.

Today the Church of England remembers anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce, Olaudah Equiano (who lived in the area and was buried just off Tottenham Court Road) and Thomas Clarkson. It is perhaps also a day when here at St Giles especially we should remember Robert Wedderburn, whose book ‘The Horrors of Slavery’ he dedicated to Wilberforce, who was a frequent visitor while Wedderburn was incarcerated – branded one of the most dangerous reformers in England.

Sermon-Forward people of Christ, forward people of the Cross

The Crypt Chapel at St Olave Hart Street

A brief Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street, City of London on Tuesday 29th July 2025 – the Feast Day of St Olaf. The service, the last before the summer break, took place in the medieval crypt chapel, using the altar there for the first time in several years. Services resume at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 2nd September at 12.30pm when I will be back preach and celebrate.

Sermon-First be Reconciled

 ‘The Reconciliation’ (1989) by Josefina de Vasconcellos at Coventry Cathedral

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 27th July 2025, the Sixth Sunday after Trinity, based on the text of Romans 6.3-11 and Matthew 5.20-26.

Sermon-Becoming 'Cross' People

It was a great privilege to lead the Church of England’s National Online Service broadcast on Sunday 20th July 2025. You can watch the recording at this link. The text of my homily, based on Colossians 1.15-28 and Luke 10.38-42 is below.

Thought for the Day - God on the Margins

Hagar and Ishmael in the desert, Emanuel Krescenc Liška, 1883

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 2nd July 2025 based on the texts of Genesis 21.5, 8-20 and Matthew 8.28-34