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Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Thought for the Day-Individual but not Independent

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Dance (I), Henry Matisse, 1909 A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street on Tuesday 15th ...
Sunday, 13 September 2026

Sermon-I Look Up to Him. I Look Down on Him.

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  Contempt of Hatred (Expressive Head), by Ernest Joseph Bailley, c1792 (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent) A sermon given during Holy Communion at ...
Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Thought for the Day-God Save our Gracious Church

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King Charles III (b. 1948) by Peter Kuhfeld (b. 1952), Royal Collection Trust. A meditation drawing on the imagery of Proverbs 8.1-17 and Re...
Sunday, 6 September 2026

Great Fire Anniversary Sermon-Stirring Up Old Coals

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The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the...
Thursday, 20 August 2026

BOOK REVIEW- Lady Fanshawe’s Receipt Book: The Life and Times of a Civil War Heroine by Lucy Moore

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It is a nice change to reada book about the record of a life of a woman connected to the church. Ann Fanshawe left a memoir and a ‘receipt b...
Saturday, 8 August 2026

BOOK REVIEW- Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon, Francis and their Friends by Daphne du Maurier

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Daphne Du Maurier’s account of the lives of Anthony and Francis Bacon ends with a description of her visit to St Olave Hart Street in Octobe...
Wednesday, 5 August 2026

BOOK REVIEW-Barabus by S.J. Fowler

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So far a unique way for me to discover a book - from a link in the footer of an email sent to me by the author; the title caught my eye. Unl...
Monday, 3 August 2026

BOOK REVIEW-More than Nine Lessons and Carols

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Long time Head of History at the University of York and Lay Canon of the Minster, Allen Warren says he reluctantly accepted the task of writ...
Saturday, 1 August 2026

BOOK REVIEW-The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys. A Novel

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There must have been more than a few novels inspired by St Olave Hart Street and the area around it - and if not, there are plenty to be wri...
Sunday, 21 June 2026

Sermon on the 75th Anniversary of the start of the restoration of St Olave Hart Street

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A sermon given at St Olave Hart Street on Sunday 21st June 2026 during a service marking the seventy fifth anniversary of the start of the r...
Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Thought for the Day-Freedom

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Paul and Silas in Prison , Washington Allston, Kemper Art Museum A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St ...